Blind Tea Tasting Set #4In this blind tasting, the type of tea is revealed right from the start: Dong Fang Mei Ren, the Taiwanese oolong better known as Oriental Beauty, and sometimes as Bai Hao Oolong. It will be up to the taster to distinguish three different grades of Dong Fang Mei Ren, and estimate the retail price they would have on our shop, for two of them are only available in this set. The third can be found here and enjoyed on its ownbut we won't spoil which one it

each one fanning out from the core as if promising never to stop

The tall and refined 'palace lamp' form here gains something of a down-to-earth feel

You could call it understatement at its finest—or you could simply enjoy sipping your favorite tea from this little gem

Through this work

also known as Ryan

allowing some flexibility in its use with multiple types of tea

After graduating from the Fine Arts Department of Jiangxi Normal University

cultivating and processing exclusively this celebrated Taiwanese variety

Lü Qiongying’s deep forest garden past Guafengzhai village near the border to Laos

it is perhaps not surprising that Yu Lan Xiang finishes with an aftertaste of freshly-snapped branches

A rediscovered cultivar reborn through artisan craftsmanship

If you’re curious about what a traditional Hong Kong tea shop looks like