There are few teas have white tea leaves. In fact, among all major teas, only white tea has white leaves. White tea’s white color doesn’t...

The naming of premium teas often carries the name of the tea-producing region. For example, the famous Wuyi oolong tea (or Yancha/武夷岩茶)...

The most common OOLONG question is whether it is a green tea or a black tea. Actually, oolong tea is neither. Oolong is an independent...

Oolong tea leaves, especially Wuyi oolong (Yancha/岩茶), are the most distinguishable among all tea categories. Oolong tea leaves are...

Most tea products come in a dry-leaf state. This makes an illusion that tea products are “non-perishable” goods that can be stored...

Tea is nothing without water. If we have to rank the importance of a perfect tea experience, the quality of water is definitely on a par...

Happy new year! Year of the pig! To us, today is probably the biggest holiday of the year. Since spring last year, we’ve been updating...

Most teas are named after colors. Even oolong tea (Chinese: 乌龙, which doesn’t mean anything in English) has the color “black/dark” in...

Hundreds/thousands of years ago, tea leaves were ground into powders or compressed into bricks for easier shipping. Tea merchants, who...

Many of our first-time tea customers are regular coffee drinkers. Naturally, we get a lot questions about the caffeine level in tea...

If you like Wuyi oolong (Yancha/岩茶), you must have heard Wuyi oolong’s “Yan Yun” (Chinese: 岩韵). Tea leaves are tangible, but “Yan Yun”...

In our last tea blog, we discussed the real differences between spring and winter harvests (please click here for Blog 86). Today, let’s...

As we all know, the price of a product is determined by the balance of supply and demand. Given a fixed demand, more the supply, lower...

I have to admit that the title is quite odd. How can white tea withering have anything to do with a door threshold? If you’ve visited...

If you ask a tea maker to choose “the king of oolong”, Rou Gui is probably the most popular choice of all. Rou Gui, or 肉桂 in Chinese, is...

Waterway is the literal translation of 水路 (Chinese pronunciation: shuǐ lù). In both English and Chinese, it means a river, canal or other...

On last day of 2018, we’d like to thank you for your continued interest in this tea blog. We started this blog earlier this year and have...

To tea makers, all teas begin as fresh leaves. Depending on where these fresh leaves grow and how they are processed, we have many kinds...

Tea and wine often share a lot similarities. To a true wine expert, different wines need different wine glasses. For example, there are...

In our last blog, we discussed one of the reasons why a tea might taste “numb/dry”. (see Blog 78 here if you haven’t checked it out.)...