First of all, I’d like to thank everyone who’s been following this blog and our Dupont Circle tea store. We’re now open at 2101 P St NW, Washington DC 20037....

Today, we’re thrilled to announce that our first D.C. store will officially open for business on this Valentine’s Day, Friday, 02.14.2020. After months of re...

Happy Chinese New Year! This year is the year of Rat. On this wonderful day, we wish you and your family a happy holiday. For this year's celebration, we've ...

Today marks a new chapter for Valley Brook Tea. Our first DC tea store located at 2101 P St NW officially started its construction. If everything goes smooth...

On classic Chinese tea books, many authors refer “tea-drinking” as “eating tea/吃茶”. This expression is still occasionally used today. By today’s standard, “e...

A white tea’s taste can be quite versatile depending on the variety, the age, and the growing environment. Typically, a good white tea product have a complex...

Today is China’s mid-autumn festival. We wish you and your family a perfect life just like the roundest moon on mid-autumn day. ————————————— As we all know,...

What’s the ultimate definition of a good Wuyi oolong? We’ll never get a perfect answer for an open-ended question like this. For example, what defines a good...

Experienced tea drinkers would know that infused Wuyi oolong leaves often have many “bubble-like” humps. This phenomenon is more visible on heavily roasted W...

If you study Chinese herbal medicine, you’d notice that a lot medicines have very poetic names. For example, “Arum” in Chinese is literally called “Southern ...

To be fair, tea-making is perfected by time. Tea-making has a history of over thousands of years, and many tea-making techniques were originally discovered o...

Sometimes, we get questions from our customers about tea table manners. Many tea drinkers want to learn more tea-related manners so that they wouldn’t misbeh...

A few days ago, I had some tea with a couple friends. One of my friends, let’s call him H, said that he’s always a little afraid of hot tea because he’s worr...

In our previous tea blogs, we’ve talked about many common mistakes in tea-drinking. Since there’re so many details to cover, we’d like to continue our conver...

Recently, we encountered an interesting incident. One of our long-time client in Maryland called us and complained that all her black tea products have sudde...

If people are exposed to high temperatures for a prolonged time, they can potentially get heatstroke, a condition caused by body overheating. Similar to huma...

It is a common sense that drinking strong tea and strong coffee can be bad for our health. But in terms of the definition of a strong tea, there is no offici...

Enjoying a tea is fairly easy. We don’t need complex machines, industrialized equipments, or a time-consuming process. A kettle of boiling water, a set of ch...

When I was very young, I once asked our tea maker Mr. Xue Sr.: natural talent and experience, which one is the more important quality of a good tea maker? “W...

If you’re a regular tea drinker, you must have heard the term “high mountain tea”. To many people, “high mountain tea” is a just another fancy name in world ...