Tea Guardian – Page 2

2015.07.30

Congou

One tea variety popularly seen in mass market tea in the tins is “Congou”. The...

2015.07.28

Gongfu tea, originally gongfu cha ( Chinese: 功夫茶 ), used to refer to a way of...

2015.07.20

Pu’er teas that have not undergone post-fermentation are sometimes labelled as “raw” puer. “Raw puer” is a...

2015.05.26

A leaf shoot is the bud of a tea leaf before it opens from its...

2015.05.08

We have borrowed this word from cooking for use in tea preparation. In cooking, to...

2015.05.02

Mistaken as tannins previously, tea catechins are a group of phytochemicals existing naturally in the leaves...

2015.04.21

Cha bing ( Chinese: 茶餅 ) refers to the kind compressed tea that takes the...

2015.04.14

This page lists reference readings that are published in Chinese. To display this page properly,...

2015.04.13

Pu’er ( Chinese: 普洱 ) is the name of a municipality in the province of...

2015.04.08

Fermentation is a food processing method in which the metabolism of microbes alters the chemical composition...