Teamaster's and Toptea Hongshui 14 May 2009 | 11:21 pm

Hongshui oolong is a style of tea created on the island of Taiwan by mixing Anxi and Wuyi processing techniques. They are ball shaped (like Anxi oolong) but more oxidized (Wuyi oolong) and not as heav...

Lipton Tea Now Rainforest Friendly 7 May 2009 | 08:24 pm

Lipton, a brand owned by Unilever is in the process of having all of it's tea certified rainforest friendly. This doesn't mean much to me personally, but some of the figures quoted by the article in T...

Hongshui and Taiwan Oolong Education 29 Apr 2009 | 07:44 pm

Let me start out by saying that I have tried a lot of "Taiwan Oolong" teas. However in the past few weeks I have realized that I don't know as much about Taiwan Oolong as one ought to after trying so ...

2009 Yancha Harvest Has Started 23 Apr 2009 | 07:14 pm

4月21日，福建省武夷山市的茶农肩挑装满春茶的箩筐。 A tea picker with baskets full of the spring tea harvest in Wuyishan, Fujian province. 连日来当地气温不断上升，往年5月开始批量采摘的武夷岩茶大红袍今年4月下半月就已进入采摘高峰期。 Each day the local temperature is r...

Shanghai Yuyuan Garden Tea Festival 21 Apr 2009 | 05:32 pm

A short video in English about Shanghai's Yuyuan Garden Tea Festival. Not very informative, but enough to make me wish I was there.

Chaozhou Style Tea Stove 19 Apr 2009 | 10:28 pm

My tea stove for Chaozhou style Gongfu tea arrived by courier this Friday. I was so happy when it finally arrived that I fired it up right away, and made a huge mess in my mother in law's kitchen. I r...

Zhejiang (and Guizhou) Green Teas 19 Apr 2009 | 08:29 pm

Yesterday I had a great tea day. I went to my friend's shop because he had some tea merchants from Lishui (a prefecture level division of Zhejiang province) at his shop.  They brought Anji Baicha, Xih...

Untitled 19 Feb 2009 | 05:54 pm

A Heap of Tea 9 Feb 2009 | 06:00 pm

This past October I made a trip to Wuyishan and bought a fair amount of tea, which in the past few months has been almost completely consumed. It was clearly time to order more. I have been meeting l...

The Ninth Eccentric of Yangzhou 20 Jan 2009 | 02:47 am

Walk from Yixing number one factory past the gate of the number two factory, and then cross the street. The studio of the 'Ninth Eccentric of Yangzhou' is two small rooms slightly below the level of t...