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Experiments with roasting

I have a predilection for roasted oolongs. As the colder weather is creeping in again, I’ve begun to crave them more and more these days. Over the last few years...

A teahouse is born

Finally, after 5 long hard weeks of manual labour, we opened our teahouse. We had a great day – a little quiet in the morning, but the afternoon was a...

Wuyi

Earlier in the year Kathy (my wife) & I had planned to go to Wuyi together after our trip to Yunnan. Then the lease for our teahouse began to move...

Mengsong

As promised, some more photos from our time in Yunnan this year. This time the photos are from a small village in Mengsong area. A friend from Menghai took us...

Tea House in progress

I arrived back from China last Wednesday to receive a call from my Solicitor informing me that the deal had gone through that day for the lease for our Tea...

Lao Banzhang – A village in decline

Lao Banzhang is a strange place. I don’t really enjoy going there so much – there’s an air of greed and duplicity about the village. For some reason though, I...