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Leo KwanSnow Orchid, Peaceful Christmas & Prosperous New Year
Read moreOxidation room An European importer recently asked me: how do they get such wonderful aroma in the leaves? Referring to…
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Leo KwanThe Little Bug that Created a Tea
Read moreTea Green Leafhopper is a small pest in the tea field. Yet without it a most beautiful tea cannot be produced. It is the chain biochemistry reaction in one particular tea plant after the leaf has been bitten by this tiny creature that results in the unique Beauty of the Orient…
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Leo KwanA Premodern White Peony?
Read moreBefore the modern white tea cultivars Before there were the Dai Bai cultivars for making the different white teas as we know…
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Leo KwanPoor Men’s Song Cultivar
Read moreSmall white There actually isn’t a Small White in Fenghuang Dancong, but a cultivar named Fenghuang Baiye — i.e. Phoenix…
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Leo KwanThe Black Tea that My Longjing Farmer Drinks
Read moreMrs Wu, wife of our Longjing farmer Every time I see Mrs Wu I feel happy just to see the…
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Leo KwanReturn of Song Cultivar
Read moreBad news 2016 has been a bad year for Song Cultivar. The making of this premium quality Fenghuang dancong requires…
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Leo KwanSnow White, orange peel, pu’er tea
Read moreLife of a fairy tale To decode stories produced or endorsed by official Chinese bodies, one needs to compare them…
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Leo KwanDianhong — Tea Born of a War
Read moreTea teams were sent to Yunnan to explore setting up of a black tea production base for export to replace those in occupied Fujian, Jiangxi and Zhejiang. The resistance needed as much revenue as they could get in order to operate…
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Danhu Old Bush Song & other Beautiful Phoenixes
Read moreWolf hair brush on fine silk scroll Zhaoji ( Huizong, Emperor of Song between 1101~1125 A.D. ) was not a…
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Chairman Mao’s Personal Tea and Special Edition Orchid Grātus for Free
Read moreChairman Mao’s Personal Tea and Special Edition Orchid Grātus for Free An old tea tree with a spread crown overlooking…
