We reflect on what it means to be a tea master. When you brew tea as a master, you offer your service to people. You bring them joy to the best of your ability, by putting your heart into the process, and joy multiplies and comes back to you. Sometimes it's a pleasure to offer tea to people, when you don't even drink it yourself. Where is the point when tea becomes a labor of love?
In this video, we take a tour around the traditional Chinese tea house, inspect their menu and compare it to our selection, observe the tea session given in the house, and then see what kind of street tea shops are frequented by locals in the South of China.
In this video, we lose our luggage and try to make the best of an unfortunate situation. We visit a modern Guanyin temple, have a bite at an impressive vegetarian restaurant, then have tea at a traditional tea club in Xiamen, where we meet a very knowledgeable and experienced tea master who kindly shares some fascinating facts about Puer and the tea culture in the South of Fujian.
In this video, we visit the town of Dehua, the famous center of ceramic and porcelain production in China. We take a tour around Taoci Bowuguan, the museum of porcelain, take a look at the most interesting items, learn about the ancient and contemporary masters, and the evolution of the craft in Dehua.
In this video, we discuss why we should even get into the tea culture, and how it would benefit us. We remember that the Chinese first discovered tea as a medicinal herb, and explain how it still fits into our modern life.
In this video, we taste fresh Tie Guanyin, and take a look at the history of this famous tea, then taste a truly unicorn tea - Tie Guanyin Shu Puer, and discuss the experimental tea we can produce, later we take a tour around a big porcelain factory in Dehua, and review popular Chinese snacks.
