, called chálou (茶樓) serve dim sum (點心), and these small plates of food are enjoyed alongside tea. before tea was used as a social drink, buddhist monks drank tea as an aid to their meditation. [ ] during the chinese adaptation of buddhism between c.e. and c.e., tea was introduced as a medicinal herb...
from a brick pu'er or pu-erh [ ] is a variety of fermented tea produced in the yunnan province of china. fermentation in the context oftea production involves microbial fermentation and oxidation of the tea leaves, after they have been dried and rolled. [ ] this process is a chinese specialty and produces...
of shaping tea is most often applied either to dried green tea (the most commonly encountered variety outside china) or oolong tea. [ ] gunpowder tea production dates back to the tang dynasty – . it was first introduced to taiwan in the nineteenth century. gunpowder tea leaves are withered, steamed,...
tea leaves of a specific size; [ ] however, it is popular in some regions (such as north america) to use the term as a description of any generic black tea (though it is often described to the consumer as a specific variety of black tea). [ ] [ ] within this system, the teas that receive the highest...
country is a major producer oftea (camellia sinensis), but is best known for the cultivation and consumption of mate , made with the leaves of the local yerba mate plant. contents history tea production yerba mate tea-drinking customs and establishments references history[ edit ] when jesuit missionaries...
insecticide use in order to replicate this process in other teas. [ ] similar action of jassids and thrips helps form the muscatel -like flavor of india's second flush darjeeling tea to which dongfang meiren is sometimes compared. [ ] because of the need for jacobiasca formosana feeding, the tea must...
development of the japanese tea ceremony . much less commonly, japanese tea practice uses leaf tea, primarily sencha , in which case it is known in japanese as senchadō (煎茶道, the way of sencha) as opposed to chanoyu or chadō. tea gatherings are classified as an informal tea gathering chakai (茶会, tea...
, or both. this standard is not meant to define the proper method for brewing tea intended for general consumption, but rather to document a tea brewing procedure where meaningful sensory comparisons can be made. an example of such a test would be a taste-test to establish which blend of teas to choose...
the blend, or by the grand master of a particular tea tradition . when a blend is named by the grand master of a tea ceremony lineage, it becomes known as the master's konomi. contents history production tencha grades location on the tea bush treatment before processing stone grinding oxidation traditional...