Pu'ers & other post-fermented teas: the Dark tea category / Special Features
by Leo Kwan · Published 2016.04.06 · Last modified 2022.12.10
It makes perfect sense to stock up a few pieces of cha bings for maturity and to save some money. However, it is quite another matter to buy with the intention to invest. This article deals with this latter idea.
Pu'ers & other post-fermented teas: the Dark tea category / Tea Usage
by Leo Kwan · Published 2015.12.11 · Last modified 2023.01.25
Shengcha pu’er looks and tastes differently from its dark colour cousin, shu cha pu’er. Yet...
Nature of tea / Pu'ers & other post-fermented teas: the Dark tea category / Special Features
by Leo Kwan · Published 2015.06.20 · Last modified 2017.07.11
The expression “shengcha” initially refers to the dried tea leaves of the puer variety that were meant to go through further processing, such as steaming for compressing or post-fermentation…
Featured / Nature of tea / The category of Modified teas
by Leo Kwan · Published 2015.01.12 · Last modified 2022.12.10
A cha bing is a modified form of tea. It is made by compressing tealeaves...
The essential element in the black art of obscurantism is not that it wants to...
On the left we have an Orange Pekoe, a special grade of relatively larger leaf...
Concepts in TCM / Featured / Infusion / Tea Usage
by Leo Kwan · Published 2023.01.26 · Last modified 2023.02.01
A while ago a reader asked me to write some recipes for the festivals involving...
Health Benefits of Tea / Special Features / Tea and Health
by Leo Kwan · Published 2020.03.20 · Last modified 2025.12.10
In honour of all the victims and their families and friends, and in the hope that we learn something from this largely preventable pandemic, this is my sharing as a tea specialist and a multiple times epidemic witness. Quotation: These ( tea ) catechins can bind differently to neuraminidase ( i.e. the chemical in viruses that breakdowns the defence of our cellular wall ) and might overcome known drug resistance related virus mutations…
Infusion / Special Features / Tea How's
by Leo Kwan · Published 2017.02.23 · Last modified 2017.07.11
One of the perpetuating questions in tea infusion is to blanch or not to blanch — we look at it in a practical perspective and referencing the true qualities of tea to come up with a detail answer
Health Benefits of Tea / Special Features
by Leo Kwan · Published 2016.03.23 · Last modified 2019.01.19
The most expensive disease of our time and incurable, Alzheimer’s destroys the brain slowly before killing a person. Tea maybe a useful daily habit against it.
The capacity of most popular Yixing pot sizes ranges from a few hundred millilitres (or...
As Nature manifests its power over us earthlings with fatal blizzards and cold fronts, paralysing...
“Can I use the same tealeaves for a couple of infusions? I mean, I read in some places that it’s ok, but I don’t know if there will be any health benefits after the first infusion. Any tips?” A question from Kate…
Using the same container both to make tea in and drink from is the most...
Health Benefits of Tea / Tea and Health
by Leo Kwan · Published 2015.12.29 · Last modified 2016.03.15
Mouth Ulcers, aka aphthous ulcers, ( Chinese: 痱滋 ) are sores or open lesions in the...
Christmas sober Every year on Christmas Eve, people gather to celebrate the birth of Christ...