The Tea Appreciation Class

In Hong Kong we took part in a tea appreciation class which teaches you about Chinese tea how to prepare it (the right way) and it’s history. Tea is very healing and can be detoxifying. There is a legend that a person ate leaves to find their uses and teach the people about them. One day he ate around 70 toxic leaves, then almost dead he saw a tea plant ate it and was completely healed. Chinese teas all come from the same leaf. The different teas are just different fermentations. Here is a table of the different teas and the fermentation. The name is the colour of the leaf before it is made in into tea.

Avia preparing “Oolong” tea

 

2 Comments

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  Avie Estrin January 21, 2013 at 9:54 pm

  I highly recommend the Tung-Ting Oolong.
  Your feed-back is appreciated!
  • 
    David January 22, 2013 at 6:57 am

    Tried it. Prefer the Wing Ham Dung Lap. It tickles lightly as it goes down.
    Don’t like the Durian tea so much.