Processing of semi-green tea from the Phoenix region + VIDEO
How are oolong teas actually processed (specifically in the Phoenix area around Chaozhou)? How much skill, time and technology does a freshly picked leaf need t...
Rubrika: China 2016
Our itinerary for the tea expedition was mainly Canton and Futien – we started in Guangzhou, then went to Chazhou/Chaoshan, then a stopover in Xiamen and then to Wuishan – with luck we will eventually head north to the birthplace of the famous Dragon Well = Hangzhou area.
2 500 km by train, 250 km on foot, 40 km by car and 5 km by boat = our tea China…
But there’s one more digit missing. The one that will probably be of interest to a significant part of you = how much we spent on such fun for almost a mo...
Can pregnant women drink tea? Yes or no?
How is it with tea and pregnancy? Is it a problem? Are you not allowed to drink all loose teas, or just some? What do the Chinese themselves, or even the pregna...
And I thought our backpacks were heavy…
And that’s not all… 🙂
Xiamen and going home
Dragon’s Well and Xi Hu were the last tea stop on our 3 week Chinese tea journey…
Pictures say more than a thousand words = Dragon’s Well / West Lake live…
The photos of our 2 days at the West Lake (Xi Hu) in Hangzhou say more than the whole post.
A dragon’s well big and oversized…
It took only 2 hours of high-speed train ride from Wuyi (in some places it was burning around 300 km/h) and we arrived in a thinned-out line-up in Hangzhou = th...
And we’ll play – with a tea roaster
We didn’t give up and each male representative of our expedition (me and Tom) bought a roaster/oven, … for tea.
I appreciate all the people who grow, collect, carry and process tea…
In CR, we enthusiastically enjoy cups of tea, looking for great leaves, new flavours, … but we never see who’s behind it all. Who actually grows, co...
A raft ride in Wuishan, a tea fairy and another tea factory…
„Finally“ we enjoyed one of the traditional tourist events – a bamboo raft ride on the river that (not) always calmly flows around the Wuiy pr...