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Tea HongTea for Mooncake?
Read moreMid Autumn Festival As the shape of the moon grows fuller towards what the lunar calendar marks as Mid-Autumn, Mooncake Festival…
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Tea HongTeeth for Tea
Read moreTeeth for tea? No, you don’t need even a single cuspid to enjoy the brew; your olfactory and gustatory senses…
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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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Tea HongRed is the New Black
Read moreRed or Black? The infusion is red, orange or brown, but why are they called black? In the Far East,…
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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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Leo Kwan
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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Tea HongHealth Benefits of Tea
Read moreA hot research focus Repeatedly in scientific researches all over the world, contents in tea have been found to possess…
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Leo KwanYixing Teapots: Artist Ranking
Read moreThere is a double tiered, multi-level ranking system for artists and craftspeople in Mainland China. Yixing teapot makers are generally…
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Tea HongHandcrafting Yixing Teapots
Read moreAlthough in recent years the Taiwanese and the Japanese have developed techniques in mould casting teapots using materials derived from…
