What is Orange Pekoe?
A Funny Name In the supermarket or your local teashop, you probably have come across...
oolong
Wulong
Wulong ( Chinese: 烏龍 ) is the pinyin romanisation of what the West has been...
Shiguping Wulong
Shi-gu-ping ( Chinese: 石古坪, 又作石鼓坪, 另有考為石牯坪, 無定案 ) is the name of a village in...
Gongfu Infusion: Chapter 2
Phoenix Oolong with the Gaiwan In chapter 1, we have discussed the basic steps in...
Tea Infusion: What does it Mean?
For most people, to make tea — tea infusion — simply means to pour boiling...
Obscurantism: What Tea are you Really Buying?
The essential element in the black art of obscurantism is not that it wants to...
Defending Against Cancer
As to how tea protects the body against cancer, several mechanisms have been observed and hypothesized. We have tried to digest them and represent a few prominent concepts here in plain English…
Quality Basics 1: Various Plants, Various Qualities
Four of the thousands of different tea tree cultivars employed for tea production in different...
Is a Semi-fermented Tea an Oolong?
the market wants more choices The production of oolong is defined by the degree of “fermentation” as well as...
Rougui, the Wuyi oolong before Shuixian
Rougui ( ròu•guì 肉桂, i.e. Chinese cinnamon, aka Yugui, Cassia) is both the name of a popular cultivar in the...