Leo Kwan – Tea Guardian

Concepts in TCM / Featured / Infusion / Tea Usage

2023.01.26

Dancong as a hangover tea, a special recipe

A while ago a reader asked me to write some recipes for the festivals involving...

Quality Matters

2021.10.17

Of Yarn and Tea

Yesterday my wife had a hunch for learning crochet so we went to a local...

Oolong varieties / Quality & Variety Guide / Tea varieties

2020.10.15

Eight Immortals

A humble Fenghuang Dancong Of all the bouquet style Phoenix Oolongs, Baxian — Eight Immortals...

How a run away virus in China spread to the world

Health Benefits of Tea / Special Features / Tea and Health

2020.03.20

Tea at the Onslaught of Wuhan Coronavirus

In honour of all the victims and their families and friends, and in the hope that we learn something from this largely preventable pandemic, this is my sharing as a tea specialist and a multiple times epidemic witness. Quotation: These ( tea ) catechins can bind differently to neuraminidase ( i.e. the chemical in viruses that breakdowns the defence of our cellular wall ) and might overcome known drug resistance related virus mutations…

Black tea varieties / Tea varieties

2017.04.03

Red Jade, The Fragrance of Taiwan

I would have continued to ignore this tea had it not been the surprising tasting...

Infusion / Special Features / Tea How's

2017.02.23

To blanch or not to blanch? That is the question

One of the perpetuating questions in tea infusion is to blanch or not to blanch — we look at it in a practical perspective and referencing the true qualities of tea to come up with a detail answer

Worker covering a pile of pu'er tea for post-fermentation proces

About / Glossary / References

2016.10.19

Shou Cha or Shu Cha?

In the recent couple of decades, pu’er dark teas that are produced with the piled...

An array of different tea forms, with different tea names and tea naming concepts

Quality & Variety Guide / Tea varieties

2016.10.09

Naming of a Tea

Naming of teas has always been problematic, especially when there are so many different ways of doing it for such a huge number of varieties in so many different regions. We summarise the different ways it is done for better understanding as a foundation for your tea search