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...

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

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

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....

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,...

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

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

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...

Sometimes, we get questions from our customers about tea table manners. Many tea drinkers want to learn more tea-related manners so that...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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...

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...

The summer heat peaks around this time. If you live in the northeast, you’ve probably experienced one of the hottest summers last week....

In our opinion, Fujian is the most important tea-producing area in the world. Fujian is the birthplace of black tea (Tongmu Village/桐木关),...

Recently, one of our friends from Illinois shared a white tea product with us. He said that his local tea shop owner told him that this...