Posted on August 10, 2009
Is there such a thing as fake tea? I am not referring to leafy products passed off as teas when they weren’t actually grown from a tea plant. It may be a fine point of semantics and I have no quibble when herbals such as chamomile or verbena are referred to as as teas. What [...]
Posted on August 10, 2009
My friend Carol came back yesterday from her first visit to China, cramming five cities into twelve days of traveling. She wished the tour packager had included more sight seeing and reduced the factory visits followed by the inevitable shopping. In Hangzhou, of course, there was the de-rigueur stop at a Dragonwell Green Tea company.
Posted on December 22, 2008
The sales of Jasmine scented tea rolled up into little pearls has out-paced that of any other I can recall. At times it seemed that we could never have enough in stock, calling in air shipments to fill the demand. Known as Dragon Phoenix Pearls or Jasmine Silver Pearls (Mo Li Yin Zhu), each little [...]