Superwoman Miss Lin met a woe this year. Seems like, many people are having an unsmooth year. Her tea production facility burned down 1 month ago and we arrived to see her making tea in her bonsai garden. Elegant, calm, and unruffled always, we had a fantastic dinner, some of her second place winner Taiwan Beauty tea, and marvel at her pluck- she is going to reconstruct her facility and add a classroom for tourists to try their hand at making tea themselves next year. That spirit is classic for the Hakka tribal people like her- about 100 years ago, when the bugs completely ravaged his crop, the undaunted Hakka tribesman made a fantastic, unique tea with the damaged leaves, turning it into one of the tea treasures on earth- the Taiwan Beauty oolong.
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