Other Tea Lore
”Spoiled“ Tea: What Moisture Does to Tea
Lanzhou Tea Shop - Various Sun-dried and Conventional Green Teas
These mounds of Yunnan green tea that you can find at Lanzhou tea markets (both...
Microwave Fixation - The Future of Green Tea?
“Where do I kill-green? Well, I just use the microwave in my apartment. That gets the job done just fine. Two minutes in there provides a perfect ...
Mingqian: Deepest Dive
Today, we are one month out from the Qingming Festival, and the Qingming solar term (April 4th-18th) that follows it. Green tea picking has already...
Listen to the Tea Soup Podcast!
After living in China since 2016 and sourcing Chinese teas for the past decade, this is our love letter to the industry, what we can give back to e...
Organic Vs. Conventional Deep Dive
Lay of the Land
When it comes to appraisals of organic tea from Chinese customers and producers, we’ve heard comments of every kind. Xuanen County’...
Laotian Tea and Chinese Traders
The Chinese Origins of Laos’ Tea Boom
As wages have risen in China, a mass market has developed for medium and high-end teas. At the forefront of t...
The Browning of White Tea
While sourcing teas in China, we are constantly met with new discoveries about the tea making process and clearer understandings of what’s happenin...
Jiuhuashan
Last year I traveled to this mountain sacred to Chinese Buddhists. It is off the beaten tourist path, as the much more popular mountain of Huangsh...
