friend tea inheritance

One dear female friend told me few days ago, 
"Hey Brian, don't you think the package of wait a moment is a little bit too young, do you? However the people who are affordable to buy these teas are around 30 to 40 years old. Have you ever thought about change the package?"

Undoubtedly, the package of wait a moment seems for young people, and buyers are older instead. Moreover, the packages of other brands of tea are much more excellent, and brilliant, and customers could buy these teas because of their beautiful appearances without thinking what kinds of tea are they almost.     

Thank you, my dear friend. You reminded me the advantage of the package of wait a moment. Actually wait a moment is for young people and foreigners in the beginning, even till now. Elders know tea, and they know how to enjoy and admire tea because the older generations have shown the spirit and culture of tea. Now it is gone. Young people need something to help them to connect with tea.   

Tea could be kind of a beverage in bottles. The process of make tea with a set of utensils could be a beautiful performance. However the most significant and important meaning of tea is in sado(cha dao). 
 
Most people talk about knowledge of tea loudly. They know a lot of locations of tea, and they could describe the fragrances and tastes of tea with brilliant words. You think they are masters, but they are more like businessmen and far away from sado(cha dao) in this way. 

Have you ever been in a Japanese tea ceremony once? The tempo of Japan tea ceremony is slow and the atmosphere is serious. It is boring, and fascinating. How come?? Yes, it is such a incredible 'thing'. It is sado(cha dao). Tea ceremony are not the most proper words for sado.

茶道
 
Tea is gentle. It could be drank. It could be read. There are a lot of Taiwan tea ceremonies in Taiwan today. People use a set of expensive utensils to brew up tea with dim light and elegant atmosphere. And yes, it is definitely a ceremony although they call it sado.

Something we have to look inside and search in ourselves. Sado is one of these something. The real sado in Taiwan is similar with sado(Japanese tea ceremony) in Japan I think. It should be boring and fascinating. Anyway, when you meet it, you must could recognize it.

 

How to make a cup of Taiwanese tea with a Mug II

In the beginning, we said that it is easy to drink Taiwanese tea and Chinese tea by mugs. 
Just put some tea into the mug first, and the quantity of tea leaves has to cover the bottom of mug almost, and then pour hot water into it.  Done.

Is the quantity of tea leaves in the glass too much?

Is that so easy? Yes.............
But then Brian got some mails and understood that it is no so EASY exactly...............
Beacuse the shapes of every tea leaves are different, it is a big problem to some people who are like scientistsm, which means that they care about the detail very much.........

because of this kind of cup,
we could use the top to stop tea leaves to avoid swallowing them

The best way to figure out if the quantity of tea leaves is enough or too much or less is just do it once first and then see how the tea leaves expands.

While the tea leaves are expanding completely in the mug, finally the height of leaves reaches .............

1. the top of mug， it means that tea leaves is too much. It is obvious that how you could drink the mug of tea juice without swallowing some tea leaves at the same time............. :)



2. the middle of mug， it means that the quantity of tea leaves is quite enough. The tea juice (or tea soup) above the expanded tea lleaves is delicious, and the under one would be a little bitter. It is not a problem actually. Just drink the above tea juice first and add more hot water in it after the above one is drunk off. It could be repeated few times.

3. the quater of mug，it means that the quantity of tea leaves is a little bit less, but still good. Compare to the middle of mug, maybe you just could drink once or twice most by the same tea leaves, and you have to wait for more few minutes before drninking it.

4. the bottom of mug，it means that you are a stingy person....hahahahahaha
Please remind this that no matter drinking tea, wine, or drink (liquor), the worst way to taste them is to make them too thin and poor. 
Or you just go get a glass of pure water instead of. 
Treat yourself good please.

it is good to separate tea juice and tea leaves
before drinking it :)

Eventually, it is hard to make the right quantity every time, so why not just enjoy drinking tea juice with happiness everytime and knowing how to adjust the tea leaves and hot water in the mug.

Wish you have a good time with a mug and Taiwanese tea leaves hereafter.  :)

蓋碗

你都用什麼茶具泡茶呢？
馬克杯？玻璃杯？飄逸杯？茶壺？

有沒有用過蓋碗啊？

花樣好像是20年前流行的蓋碗:)

也有人稱之為蓋杯，因為是要拿來泡茶的！
不過，蓋碗的名字其來有自，
如果你把它的蓋子和下面的淺碟拿走，身體的大小的確可以當碗來用呢........:)

前不久去鶯歌找尋蓋碗，順便拜訪許久未見的廠商朋友，聊著聊著才知道，蓋碗已經沒什麼人在買了，看看朋友的茶具庫存，竟然一個蓋碗也沒有................驚覺，在山中度日，果然會渾然不知外界的變化.......o_O

逛著陶瓷老街，店鋪裡的蓋碗越做越小，越來越像杯子，真的只能稱之為蓋杯了........



白色的碗底適合欣賞茶湯色

 蓋碗的實用性和方便性，真的教人喜愛........:)

可以直接沖泡茶葉，待茶葉舒展開來，然後用蓋子稍微擋住茶葉，就可以直接飲用.........:)

可以代替茶壺，而且可以讓輕發酵輕焙火的茶款，揚出更新鮮迷人的茶葉香氣........:))
※使用蓋碗代替茶壺，需要一點手法上的小技巧，習慣就好

拿開蓋子，就可以清楚看到在水中悠遊的茶葉，很棒吧！

蓋碗很棒的地方，還有一個，就是清除茶渣非常方便，一倒就乾乾淨淨................lol


附註說明：
適合使用蓋碗的茶葉有....
碧螺春綠茶   輕焙火烏龍 頂級  輕焙火烏龍  輕焙火金萱  香片

※著重口感的茶款比較不適合使用蓋碗沖泡。因為瓷器散熱較快，且蓋碗碗口較廣，雖然香氣會較佳，可是比較無法將重焙火或重發酵的茶葉滋味完全提出。

A practical tea set to make beautiful tea soup

People used to think about having a tea pot immediately while they want to make a cup of tea.
In fact, only one tea pot is not enough to drink a cup of tea, and it needs a whole tea set to make a cup of tea. A tea set includes a tea pot, a teacup, and few tea cups at least.

So, how about have a practical teacup?
like this........

practical teacup (with a lid and a saucer)

This teacup is good at brewing green tea, jasmine tea, light baked oolong tea, and high mountain oolong tea.
Becasue the material of this teacup is porcelain, and it could reveal the smells of tea powerfully.

Of course it could also be used to brew heavy baked oolong tea or Pu-Er tea, but the flavours of these kinds of tea could not be released completely, by porcelain.

Why is this porcelain teacup so practical?..........:)
1. It could replace a tea pot absolutely.


beautiful color of tea soup



2. It could reveal the best smell of all kinds of tea.

3. It is convenient to enjoy the sight of spreading tea leaves and beautiful color of tea soup.

4. It could be used as a normal tea cup with tea leaves in it.
    (you could separate tea leaves with the lid)

5. It is easy to clean..........what a wonderful advantage:) !!

6. It is cheaper than a tea set, even a tea pot, usually.

7. It .............................................

There are more practical points of it, and we leave them to you to find out with surprise...........:)