It's All About Tea — chinese tea

Yellow tea (黄茶 – Huang Cha) is the rarest of China's six tea types, less than 1% of the country's tea. It's made like green tea with one extra step, Men Huang (sealed yellowing), which takes away the grassy edge and leaves a smoother, sweeter cup. Here's how it's made and which yellow teas to try. (Read more)

Both Sheng and Shou Pu-erh start from the same Da Ye Zhong leaf, but they part ways at a single step – fermentation. One ages slowly and naturally; the other is fermented quickly through a process called wet-piling. The result: two very different teas. (Read more)