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...
They are an old family from Lingtou, a village in the Phoenix Mountains, near Chaozhou in Guangdong, where one of the most aromatic wulongs in China is produced.This village, less known than Wudong, is the cradle of many mother tea plants. And the Zhang family is fortunate to be the guardian of some of these prestigious tea plants.Traditionally, true Wulong Dancong have the particularity of being harvested from a single tea plant and not of being a batch of leaves harvested in a plantation. The Zhang family continues this tradition and offers us the chance to have access to real Dancong.The son, thanks to his acquaintances all around the Phoenix mountains, helped us a lot to discover other gold nuggets...
Nestled in the Cha Jia dwelling in the middle of the mountains surrounding Taiping Lake in the Yellow Mountains, the Lü family is producing tea for generations and is maintaining the tradition of sustainable agricultural methods.A few years ago, I met Laolü while searching for Hou Kui. Our second child was born and I was very concerned about the pesticides we were daily exposed to in China. He invited us to come and see by ourselves and explain their policy about chemicals. We even took part in the entire picking season in 2019.He met his wife at agricultural college in Huangshan city : she is out of a family of Qimen producers. This year, our Yellow Mountain teas will come...
