Mid Summer Tea Experience

Tea cup from Taiwan engraved with the Chinese character 'Tiger'

A cup of tea is only perfect when brew and served with fine tea ware.
Treat yourself and enjoy a perfect cup in this mid-summer Sunday.

Japanese Tetsubin

Japanese Iron Kettle Tetsubin

Have you tried brewing tea with Tetsubin boiled water? Because of the raw material used, the texture and taste of iron kettle boiled water will differ from that boiled with a stainless steel or plastic kettle. To achieve the best result, use it for Pu'er tea and other types of fermented tea that requires higher water temperature for brewing. 

There are several things to note when using a Tetsubin:

* The Tetsubin can be used over fire or on a IH cooker (recommended)

* When there is water inside the kettle, keep it heated

* Make sure it's dried thoroughly after used to prevent rusting

* Do not touch the body of the kettle while it is being heated, it is really hot!!

* Colour of the kettle will change over time (in a good way!)

Hadong Wild Tea Cultural Festival

This year's Hadong Wild Tea Cultural Festival will be held from 16th May to 18th May in Hadong, South Korea. Every year, tourists and tea lovers around the World would gather to experience tea making, picking tea leaves and making tea ware etc at the Festival. To learn more, please visit the website http://festival.hadong.go.kr/html_a/a01.html or view the video~ :)

Korean Tea Making

Tea making is done mostly in the months of April and May. Our Korean Tea farmers are now busy making the best Tea for the year, let’s share a video on steps of making tea. It is admirable for Tea farmers to continue to make wild Tea by hand and note that the quality is very different from those commercial produced ones. Happy Labour’s Day!