Sunning tea on top of San Lin She
How to cheat your customers II
Sebastian Beckwith, who has logged enough miles visiting tea regions to get to the moon, decided to pretend to be on location. The photo was taken at a painted mural at Tung Ting depicting the complete processing of oolongs. This joke was funny only to us; sadly, most tea merchants in the U.S. have never been to any tea regions, but with a little help from stock photos and Photoshop, they sure can…
Beautifully Ugly: Freshly harvested Taiwan Beauty young leaves,…
Beautifully Ugly: Freshly harvested Taiwan Beauty young leaves, bitten by leaf hoppers.
Fluffing tea by hand, by Teance
Unforgettable
At what point in one’s tea drinking life, when one says, enough, this tea is far too ridiculously good and I can not live this down ever again? For today, I grew afraid that after drinking the 2nd place Taiwan Beauty winner, I might have to quit drinking tea, for fear that nothing will ever compare again. Once ridiculed as ‘pong fong cha’, or bullshit tea, this oolong invented in 1929 by a Hakka…
