Pick the right tea for you ( 07-11-13 )

While tea has long been a favorite drink of the Chinese, in the last few years, quite a few tea-flavored drinks are on the market.

A General Guide of Tea Making ( 06-11-04 )

Using a tea bag This is the most straightforward method. Place the bag in your cup and pour boiling water over it. Remove the bag when it has steeped long enough. ...

Gongfu Tea Direction ( 06-11-04 )

1. Gong Fu Method, You will need unglazed clay pot to be in a real “Gong Fu” mode. However, a ceramic teapot will be doing just fine. Step 1, Rinse the teapot with hot water. Step 2, Fill the pot with enough teas to occupy approximately 1/3 of teapot's total volume. Step 3, Fresh boiled water (or hot water depends on what kinds of teas you are using) should be pour into the pot until the leave are covered. Immediately pour the water out and discard it. – You do not need to perform this step. It ...

How hot should the water be? ( 06-11-04 )

Most black and oolong tea should be infused in water that has just achieved a vigorous boil. You may want to place a tea cozy over the teapot during infusion in order to avoid heat loss. Green teas, however, are generally better suited to water that has cooled off slightly from the boiling point. This holds especially if the tea is high-quality (e.g. Japanese Gyokuro). The same is true for Baozhong, lightly oxidized oolong such as Tung Ting, and first flush Darjeeling. In general, the closer a ...

How is tea graded? ( 06-11-04 )

The first thing to keep in mind is that these are descriptions of the dry, cured leaf only. They have no necessary relation to the aroma, color, or flavor of the end product. It is possible to get a delicious cup from ugly, broken leaves; it is possible to get an awful cup from well-handled, beautiful whole leaves. But since you may have little information to work with other than the grade, let's look at the various grades. There are different grading schemes for black and green teas. Here are ...

How much tea should I use? ( 06-11-04 )

How seriously should I take the time limits? ( 06-11-04 )

How should I store tea? ( 06-11-04 )

Should I worry about caffeine addiction? ( 06-11-04 )

Should the milk go in the cups before or after the tea? ( 06-11-04 )

What about herbal teas? ( 06-11-04 )

What about tea balls, strainers, etc.? ( 06-11-04 )

What is a tea cozy? ( 06-11-04 )

What is the best way to clean pots and cups? ( 06-11-04 )

What kind of teapot should I use? ( 06-11-04 )

What's the difference between loose tea & tea bags? ( 06-11-04 )

Where did the name ‘tea’ come from? ( 06-11-04 )

Why bother pre-heating the teapot? Is it necessary? ( 06-11-04 )

Why use cold tap water? Wouldn't hot tap water boil faster? ( 06-11-04 )

Tea Words Dictionary A-F ( 06-11-04 )