Lu Yu: The Sage Of Tea

If we are to trust old Chinese myths, the cultivation and brewing of the Camellia Sinensis (tea) plant has been around for thousands of years. And perhaps no person in history has been more influential in how we think about tea than Lu Yu, the sage of tea. His seminal work ‘The Classic of Tea’

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The Story of Chinese Jasmine tea

It is often said that anywhere between 75 to 95 percent of taste is due to our ability to smell. While this might not be completely accurate, the aroma of tea often plays an important part, and very few teas do it better than Jasmine tea. The beverage, usually with

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The Story of Bubble Tea

Most of the tea variations and preparation methods that we come across are steeped in centuries of history and tradition, but there is an increasingly popular tea-based beverage whose origins can be traced to only a few decades ago in Taiwan: Bubble tea, also known as pearl milk tea or

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The Story Of Monkey-Picked Tea

Some of the myths and legends we hear about tea are shrouded in the mysteries of the past. Others are quaint little stories we tell ourselves to make the origins of some of the teas sound more interesting, even though we are well aware that the stories aren’t real. However,

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Kukicha: The Peasants Drink

Japanese tea culture is renowned for their high quality green teas, including the ever-popular matcha and sencha, which have become household names all over the world. Kukicha tea, or “stem tea” on the other hand, is a lesser known variety that is still mostly known and consumed in Japan, but

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