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Processing of semi-green tea from the Phoenix region + VIDEO

Ondřej — Mon, 30 May 2016 16:00:43 +0000

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 to become a great tea? That’s what I want to show you today 🙂 The process of semi-machine processing of oolong phoenix tea: Hand picking is the key – pick...

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2 500 km by train, 250 km on foot, 40 km by car and 5 km by boat = our tea China…

Ondřej — Sun, 29 May 2016 23:07:37 +0000

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 month. The whole calculation is calculated for 2 people (you can split the airfare, visa and food for one, but if you travel alone,...

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Can pregnant women drink tea? Yes or no?

Ondřej — Wed, 25 May 2016 12:39:22 +0000

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 pregnant Chinese women of the tea culture actually say about it? We flew to China with this question in mind and didn’t expect to...

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And I thought our backpacks were heavy…

Ondřej — Fri, 06 May 2016 10:45:19 +0000

And that’s not all… 🙂 A few things (mainly about 2 kilos of tea and a piao pot) will be brought to us by Tomas and Marushka, who stayed in China a week later!

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Xiamen and going home

Ondřej — Thu, 05 May 2016 00:20:20 +0000

Dragon’s Well and Xi Hu were the last tea stop on our 3 week Chinese tea journey… We still managed to visit Xiamen and its little island of Gulangyu (it’s a tourist and commercial hell, albeit with some nice scenery in places) and we’re flying home in the evening (first from Xiamen to Beijing and...

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Pictures say more than a thousand words = Dragon’s Well / West Lake live…

Ondřej — Tue, 03 May 2016 14:39:26 +0000

The photos of our 2 days at the West Lake (Xi Hu) in Hangzhou say more than the whole post. But I still won’t forgive myself 🙂 At our hotel (Touran Backpacker Hostel in the woods behind the lake), we could rent bikes for the day – we had no idea how we’d be cursing...

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A dragon’s well big and oversized…

Ondřej — Sun, 01 May 2016 13:40:08 +0000

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 = the birthplace of Dragon Well, which is often nicknamed Xi Hu or West Lake. Today, just really briefly – I would never have believed how...

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And we’ll play – with a tea roaster

Ondřej — Sat, 30 Apr 2016 23:40:16 +0000

We didn’t give up and each male representative of our expedition (me and Tom) bought a roaster/oven, … for tea. It’s basically a tube that has an electric coil at the bottom to generate heat that slowly roasts/dries the tea on a stainless/bamboo screen. You can set the temperature and the length of the roast...

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I appreciate all the people who grow, collect, carry and process tea…

Ondřej — Sat, 30 Apr 2016 04:12:20 +0000

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, collects, transports and processes the tea. And the journey certainly doesn’t end there, because out of the bambillions of tons, qualities and teas, only a handful that have already...

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A raft ride in Wuishan, a tea fairy and another tea factory…

Ondřej — Thu, 28 Apr 2016 15:35:41 +0000

„Finally“ we enjoyed one of the traditional tourist events – a bamboo raft ride on the river that (not) always calmly flows around the Wuiy protected area. We were not deterred by the 2 hour wait. We used that time to visit an unexpected tea house – with an enthusiastic gentleman into pottery collecting =...

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