When we lived in the megalopolis of Shanghai, every year we felt the need to take a deep breath of nature when autumn arrived. And a tradition was born, taking the train at the end of September to spend a weekend in the WuYi mountains. WuYi Shan Nature Park is beautiful this season. It is still nice and warm, but the humidity has already started to reduce.What a delight to walk in the middle of these sumptuous mountains, between these famous tea gardens ... Matouyan, Niulankang, the mother tea plants of the Dahongpao ... What a change of scenery during the bamboo raft descent on the river with nine bends ...But above all, it's time to roast the Yancha. It begins with...
There is a tea that will always remind me of my arrival in China, and my first culture shock in a tea house. Left for China a few weeks before the rest of the family at the very beginning of our expatriation and with only one suitcase, I did not even have the place to add a gaiwan and some tea leaves. The first step to survive, the very evening of my arrival, was obviously to go into a small neighborhood tea shop to buy a cheap gaiwan, a gong dao bei (reserve pot) and a cup. , as well as the grail: one of the worst Wulong Da Hong Pao that I have ever drunk… But without speaking the...
A little over a year since we are back in France, and we still miss China very much. One of those little, distinctively Chinese things that we miss the most is having tea in a tea house.When we enters a tea house, it always exudes a particular atmosphere, traditional or very modern, very refined or real den ...When you ask to see a tea, the owners always offer to taste it. Indeed, in China, you don't buy a tea without tasting it first.So we always find ourselves sharing tea with the owners and regulars.And then, we quickly become a regular. Once we have bought a tea, we have become a customer and we are therefore invited to come back to...
Since we are back in France, one of our great pleasures is to go for a walk in the fields and to take something to prepare a nice country tea.At first, it seemed slightly complicated to organize ourselves to have everything we needed on hand, not to mention our three children.Finally, we have developed small, simple tips that allow us to take advantage of them very easily whenever we feel like it. And nothing more relaxing and soothing than a walk in the middle of nature followed by a good tea in the fields ...Leave- Let me tell you about our tips ...What at first seemed the most complicated to me was having boiling water available. We have found two...
In the Western imagination, it is often difficult to brew green tea properly. And yet, in China, we drink green tea all day long and in all situations: on public transport, in the park, at work, sitting on a stool in the street watching people go by ... Isn't that contradictory? One of the most traditional ways to brew green tea in China is to simply put a few tea leaves in a cup. And keep that cup in place most of the day, just adding hot water regularly. In recent years, people becoming more and more nomadic, everyone walks around with their hermetic transparent glass cup that can be filled with hot water at every corner. There are hot...
