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Mr. Gao’s Shengtai Tea

Our time in Taiwan was a little limited on this trip. We had so much to do and so many people we wanted to visit, but with the wish to...

The importance of teachers

It feels good to be travelling again. I’ve spent the past couple of weeks visiting Malaysia and Taiwan, both searching for tea and visiting various people I’ve come to regard...

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...