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  • The mystical Hundreds Year Old Tea Trees of Yunnan- Blog post from Humble Leaf !

    http://humbletealeaf.com/2015/01/30/the-mystical-hundreds-year-old-tea-trees-of-yunnan/ 30 January 2015 · by Eleonora · in Black Tea. · Did you know that you could drink tea harvested on thousand year old trees? Thousands years old ancient trees still grow in the primordial forest of Yunnan and some of them are harvested for tea (The hundred years old ones usually). Actually the smaller leaves from the top of the snow mountain are used, the wild tea trees aren’t always drinkable. When you see some of the leaves of these hundreds years old trees, the size of their leaves is twice the size of your hand.   Actually it was a friend of mine,...

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  • THE LONG LOST ANCIENT TEA VILLAGE- WAN GONG (Bend Arrow) from YiWu Mountain Region

    WanGong Village is one of the highest latitude tea villages in the YiWu Mountain region. It locates at over 1800 meters above sea level,  North of GuaFeng Tea Village, where the border of China and Laos. WAN Gong Ancient Tree Tea is one of the top 6 famous Puer teas right now. While LaoBanZhang and BingDao are ranked number 1 and number 2 on the famous Puer tea list,WanGong is believed to be the new Puer tea rising star! Some tea lovers even said that WanGong could be the next BingDao.  WanGong, once the most advanced and prosper tea village in ancient time...

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  • When French Pastry meets Tea In Toronto

    Really really appreciate Juan from Pastisserie La Cigogne offering me my all time favorite cakesss to pair with my All Natural Orange Pekoe !If you love authentic French pastry and Premium Teas , please visit Pastisserie La Cigogne at 1419 Danforth Avenue and 1626 Bayview Avenue !

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  • Tasting Old Tree Phoniex DanCong Tea in Toronto

    We are tasting the Old Tree Phoniex DanCong ! Very long lasting, it is already the 8th steep now 單從～ 回甘豐富！DanCong are produced in Canton province, where is my first home town ! The first three steeps are full of aroma of white orchid. from the forth infusion till the 12 infusion, the soup tastes sweet and the tea soup remains amber yellow !      

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  • Homemade tea cake in Toronto

    Handmade cakes ! JUST Pressed two 50g puer cakes 10 mins ago with 2010 Horse Mountain(MaDeng mountain) Old Tree leaves~ I collected and made the original tea cake during 2010 spring tea trip in YunNan !More stories about the tea and the tea mountain : http://www.tanlongtea.com/collections/our-teas-puer/products/spring-of-horse-mountain-old-tree-tea      

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  • YunNan - Our Second Home

    美麗的雲南大雪山野放古茶園,第二個家鄉。 The beautiful YunNan Snow Mountain Ancient Tea Tree Forest ! where we call the second home- YunNan(South of the Cloud and Mist Mountains) Trees are between 300-400 years old, no one knows who planted them..if you have a second please help like our page by clicking LIKE on this link:https://www.facebook.com/TanLongTea ! We also have a website that you can visit at www.tanlongtea.com! Please do check it out if you have time! Share it with your friends as well! We are currently based in Toronto and China, so feel fee to reach out to us! Thanks guys and girls

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  • 1500 Years of History Tang Dynasty Outfit meets with TEA

    Promoting traditional Chinese tea culture at the Canada Best Chinese food culinary competition in an authentic Tang Dynasty outfit Tang Dynasty (618~907) was one of the most prosperous time or dynasty of China. The first Tea Book By LuYu was written at that Time . Back in the Tang Dynasty ,1398 years ago ! China was the only country had proper tea ceremony ! Promoting traditional chinese tea culture at the Canada Best Chinese food culinary competition in an authentic Tang Dynasty outfit . Upscale family unmarried girls wear this outfit at that time. Tang Dynasty (618~907) was one of the most prosperous time...

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  • pu'erh tea production processing

      CLEAN AND CLEAR AIR 3000 METERS ABOVE SEA LEVEL (200 YEAR OLD TEA LEAVES FOR OUR PUER)     MORE THAN 200 YEARS OLD TEA TREES ! AMAZINGLY HUGE !  WHERE OUR ANCIENT TREES TEA CAME FROM   LI GUO JAI 'S FAMILY GROWN THEM HUNDREDS YEARS AGO AT THEIR MOUNTAIN HOUSE BACKYARD.      LARGE LADY BUGS ON NON-PESTICIDE TREE ! SO CLEAN~    WITHERING INDOOR     PAN FRY KILL GREEN     ROLLING     SECRET OF PUERH TEA: SUN DRY!  SUN DRYING PUERH TEA CAN AVOID THE TEA TURN BITTER AFTER MANY YEARS OF STORAGE TIME. PUERH TEAS...

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  • Tea Production Pictures

      Black Tea   Picking the Tea leaves !       Withering: Using of Withering Trough      Rolling machine      SECRET OF BLACK TEA : Oxidizing, fermenting the tea       Drying Baking machine :  stop fermentation and any further chemical reactions taking place Female Tea entrepreneur Li , she supports her family by making Black teas.  outside her workshop: sun drying Puer Tea   OUTDOOR TEA TASTING AND CHATTING with YunNan tea farmer. Sister in law of the female entrepreneur Li. She helps the family to distribute the teas after production, she travel 2 hours everyday...

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  • Orange Pekoe Tea Bag Teas are actually not real Orange Pekoe?

      Did you know that Orange Pekoe is actually not a type of tea with orange flavor ? It is one of the terms  use for identify quality of black teas.  Pekoe is translated from CHINESE pronunciation of Bai Hao （ Pekoe) 白毫 .. Basically the tea bags people drink everyday ARE NOT the grade of Orange Pekoe.  Pekoe is among the best grades of  TEA leaves, which is "a bud and two leaves".  The highest grade of black tea leaf is called the  Finest Tippy Golden Flowery Orange Pekoe. how does it look like : http://tanlongtea.com/collections/products-of-the-week/products/productThen what is the...

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