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China Tea Travels: 2008-10-05
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Friday, October 10, 2008. Tea, Emei And Me. Posted by Cecil Hill. Thursday, October 9, 2008. Posted by Cecil Hill. Hong Xiang Fei Tea. This is a panorama of the Fragrant Concubine's Tomb in Kashgar. We visited it back in 2005 on our Silk Road Adventure. The leaves are strange looking and got our attention immediately upon seeing them. This tea might be ok later in the day when I can sit back, relax, and savor its taste. Maybe I will do that today. Posted by Cecil Hill. Wednesday, October 8, 2008. Retired...
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China Tea Travels: 2008-09-28
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Saturday, October 4, 2008. On The Way To Buy Tea. It was during the National Holiday that we decided to go to Baguan Village again to pick up some tea and some tea cans for Sunee's return to Thailand. On the way we walked along the edge of Emei Mountain. These are some of the pictures I took. We did not get to see them this time. Posted by Cecil Hill. From http:/ www.itmonline.org/arts/laoying.htm:. With thick dark green leaves, and it grows abundantly in the mountainous areas of Sichuan province. Th...
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China Tea Travels: 2008-09-14
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Thursday, September 18, 2008. Emei Mountain Green Tea. No more do I descend the stairs of time. The sun no longer sets upon the horizon. The jade green tea and I become as one. Embraced into a dance of mental rhyme. What are these thoughts that circle in my mind? Are those birds that sing beside my ears? What vision before me boldly appears? Is it the tea or just my body trying to unwind? The thoughts I have come from the jade-like brew. And the birds are singing of this green tea I hold. As legend has i...
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China Tea Travels: 2008-11-30
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Sunday, November 30, 2008. Sunday Afternoon Tea Tasting. We wanted to use our new tea tray and our new gongfu tea set so we decided to have a tea tasting party. Of course, we invited Tom for a Sunday afternoon tea tasting. In addition, I sent an email to my older brother in Oklahoma with an invitation to join us. More just to let him know what we were doing than anything else. Tom agreed that it was as good as advertised. Normally the Tuocha puerh is of lower quality, has a lot of dust in it and tends to...
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China Tea Travels: Even Cheap Thai Teas Are Better Than Lipton Tea or . . . Not
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Monday, September 3, 2012. Even Cheap Thai Teas Are Better Than Lipton Tea or . . . Not. The Thai teas consisted of three oolong teas(I call them red, gold and blue from the colors of their packages), a black tea and a white tea. The three oolongs teas we bought at a local Hmong market (heavily commercialized) and the black I bought in a fake Hmong village on the mountain. The white tea came from the big market in downtown Chiang Mai. Two small beautifully crafted cracked celadon from Mengai Kilns. As on...
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China Tea Travels: 2008-12-07
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Thursday, December 11, 2008. Mabian Qiaoba Hei Lu Cha (Black Green Tea). We just bought this tea at the new Focus Market in downtown Emei City. I am always on the lookout for interesting teas, much to my wife's chagrin. On the second floor of the market, there is a new tea house which sells mostly green teas but has some other interesting teas from Sichuan. As soon as I saw the Black Green Tea (in Chinese), I became very interested. Here is the write up on the back of the 250 gram package:. We finally go...
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China Tea Travels: 2008-11-16
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Sunday, November 16, 2008. Chengdu Tea Culture Street. I travel to Chengdu to pick up Sunee. We visit the fairly new Tea Culture Street to see what teas are offered. The place is huge with hundreds of stores, some specializing in specific teas while others selling accessories. 14 November 2008, Our First Trip To The Street. The Southwest Chengdu Tea Culture Town is about a twenty or thirty minute taxi ride from Jiaotong University. This is the entrance to the largest street in the town. In this Pu-erh t...
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China Tea Travels: 2008-09-21
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Tuesday, September 23, 2008. Ten Fu Tea Museum, Jia Jiang. A panorama view of the museum area. Entrance to the main buildings. The Ten Fu Tea Museum is located on the expressway to Chengdu in Jia Jiang. On September 6, 2008, Southwest Jiaotong University - Emei Branch took its foreign teachers on a cultural trip in the area. Our trip ended at the tea museum where we had a wonderful experience learning about tea. The following pictures tell of our adventures with tea at the museum:. On The Museum Grounds.
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China Tea Travels: Putuoshan Focha (Buddha Green Tea)
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Thursday, June 2, 2011. Putuoshan Focha (Buddha Green Tea). I am always on the look out for tea whenever we travel to China. Since this trip to visit all the sacred mountains in China was going to be our last for quite some time, I wanted to be sure and take advantage of it to buy some interesting tea. We were visiting one of the four sacred Buddhist mountains (Putuoshan) when we got this tea. I talked Sunee into buying a small can of the local (and very famous) Putuoshan Focha (. Posted by Cecil Hill.
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China Tea Travels: Xiaotian Lanhua Green Tea
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Thursday, July 26, 2012. Xiaotian Lanhua Green Tea. This tea looks a lot like the Huangshan Mao Feng we bought in Anhui Province. It was obviously processed in the same manner and exhibits the hair that the mao feng teas have. It is very dark with only hints of green in it. One can see the hair on most of the stalks like Mao Feng. The tea is processed like Mao Feng but with a little tighter wrap, making the tea look almost like sprigs of grass. Posted by Cecil Hill. Flights to Cape Town. Green travels is...