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The minimum set for exploring tea

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Chinese tea can be classified into six distinctive categories: whitegreenyellowoolongblack and post-fermented. Others add categories for scented and compressed teas. All of these come from varieties of the Camellia sinensis plant. Most Chinese teas are cultivated and consumed in China, but are also exported internationally due to a rise of Chinese cuisine worldwide. It is commonly available in Chinese restaurants and grocery shops worldwide. Green tea is the most common type of tea consumed in China.
To brew Chinese tea, you will need special dishes and, in fact, the tea itself.
1. Kung Fu Tea set
This is a minimal set of tea party utensils. Check here!


2. Chinese Top10 Famous Tea – Wuyi Da Hong Pao
It"s a Wuyi rock tea grown in the Wuyi Mountains. It is a heavily oxidized, dark oolong tea. The highest quality versions frequently sell as the world's most expensive tea. In China, it is often reserved for honored guests. Check here!
3. Pu-erh Tea
It"s a variety of fermented tea produced in the Yunnan province of China. Fermentation in the context of tea production involves microbial fermentation and oxidation of the tea leaves, after they have been dried and rolled. Check here!
4. Oolong Tea - Tie Guan Yin Tea
Tie Guan Yin or tieguanyin(Chinese 铁观音 or 鐵觀音), often translated as Iron Goddess of Mercy or Iron Buddha, and sometimes written Ti Kuan Yin or Ti Kwan Yin, is a variety of Chinese oolong tea. Tie Guan Yin is made from a particular cultivar of the tea plant, and is also processed by a particular method.
Legend has it that Tie Guan Yin is named after an iron statue of the Bodhisattva of Compassion - ‘Guanyin’. Guanyin came to a poor farmer in his dreams and gave him the location of a great treasure. The treasure was a tea shoot which he planted in his field. He harvested and produced the tea and named it ‘Tie Guan Yin’ - ‘Iron Goddess of Mercy’. Check Here!


This is a minimal set that will help you get acquainted with Chinese tea. Lead a healthy lifestyle and drink good tea!

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