It's All About Tea
Discovering Delights: A Tea Tasting Experience at a Tea Market
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We enter a place with a charming atmosphere imbued with old-times charm. A collection of antique tea items, including various Zisha and Nixing teapots, graces the glass window, and the heaps of medicine-flavored tea promise a memorable experience for a tea lover's palate. This is a company dedicated to the exclusive sales of Liubao - a fermented tea from China. The owner greets us and starts preparing one of the exclusive teas we will try in today's tea tasting experience (Read More)
A Journey Through Flavors: Tea Tasting Experience at a Shenzhen Tea Market
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While visiting the 22-million megapolis of Shenzhen, we couldn’t miss the chance to do a tea tasting at one of the local tea markets. We picked the Nanshan area. Bordering the city’s business district and the High-tech park, it has the lively, just a bit worn-out atmosphere of a decades-old neighborhood, where modernity meets tradition and the authenticity of everyday people’s lives. (Read More)
Yaji And The Chinese Tradition of Gathering of Literati
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A Gathering of Literati, or Ya Ji (雅集), is an outstanding Chinese tradition that dates back millennia ago. Ever since, it has been a scene of literary, artistic, and poetic inspiration, as well as a birthplace for outstanding creations from some of the empire's most recognized poets, artists, and literati. The gatherings provided a refined space where literary people could gather, share ideas, and find inspiration on their path to self-cultivation and accomplishment.
Yaji has evolved with the spirit of times. It remains ever so popular nowadays, providing a much-needed space for people to get out of the usual mundane routine. In these meetings, people indulge their art-related hobbies, gather with like-minded people, and practice self-accomplishment. In today's post, we'll let you into the history of these distinguished gatherings and see how they evolved in time by attending a Yaji in Shenzhen. (Read More)
Altitude Mastery: Superior Survival Strategies of High Mountain Tea
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So, let's explore more about these fascinating teas and the lands they come from. We'll discover High Mountain Tea's fight for survival and how it turns it into a top tea. (Read More)
Raw Pu-erh Tea vs Green Tea: Unveiling Differences
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Diving into the world of tea unveils a vast spectrum of experiences, flavors, and knowledge, each variety holding its unique story and essence. In this article, we'll compare Raw Pu-erh tea (or Sheng Pu-erh) with Green tea. These teas, each revered in its own right, originate from the same plant but differ markedly in their journey from leaf to cup, offering distinct narratives of taste, aroma, and experience.
At first glance, both teas might seem very alike. They use similar processing; ongoing discussions in the tea world question whether Raw Pu-erh tea belongs to the Green tea category; even Chinese farmers, when translating to English, sometimes write "pressed Green tea" on Pu-erh tea cakes. However, Raw Pu-erh tea and Green tea remain two distinct tea types.
We'll get to know the distinguishing features of these teas, exploring their regional origins, the raw materials used, the unique processing stages they undergo, their oxidation levels, and their transformation over time. We will also delve into their contrasting tasting parameters, including color, aroma, taste, brewing resistance, and varied tea leaf shapes. Let's explore the differences that set them apart, each in its own category. (Read More)