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How to Brew Oolong Tea: Third Part - Time
In the second article of the series "How to Brew Oolong Tea", we learnt about the first step to get started: temperature. Now we can move on to the topic of time, as time is related to temperature.
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How to Brew Oolong Tea: Second Part - Temperature
The first thing to start with is the water temperature. As long as the water temperature is right, the tea will at least be half
successful. There are a lot of things that...
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What Is Beauty?
We are born into this world and given just a few months before the conditioning starts. We call it learning. Our non-dualistic view of our surroundings is taken away and with it our innocence. Through the conditioning process...
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How to Brew Oolong Tea: First Part
I share my perspective with you to help you find your own path.
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Unlearning Life with Tea: A Meditative Gong Fu Cha Ceremony
We documented part of a meditation tea ceremony for you. This is a corner stone in our life here in Taiwan. It helps us to calm body and mind, sort thoughts, self-reflect, develop & discuss ideas, explore new teas...
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Why and How to Use a Gaiwan – A Primer
How to use a gaiwan? How to hold it and pour tea with it? Why are most gaiwans made of porcelain? What to consider when purchasing a gaiwan? What is good design?
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Sit Down & Let Go: Gongfu Tea Meditation
Almost everyone wishes to grow as a human being.
Most people, however, will never experience a significant level of growth because...
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Beyond Organic: A Wild Tea Farm in Taiwan
This is what a wild tea farm looks like. An intact ecosystem: biodiversity, rich soil and tall, healthy tea trees.
Enjoy our short tea documentary...
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Conventional, Organic, Natural & Wild Tea - A Comparison
A friend of mine asked me why the price of wild and naturally farmed tea is higher. I thought this is an interesting question touching on many aspects, so I decided to share my understanding.
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A Shared Moment of Honesty
A short film capturing our encounter with Bai Ge - a tea farmer who is dedicated to cultivate his land with as little human impact as possible.
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The True Flavour
Since I started drinking tea, I have been thinking about what is the flavour of tea. The answer has been changing over the years. The first step into tea is always to start with...
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Grass Awakens From Soil, One Day We Have to Return
“What you take in excess, you must give back one day" ...
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My Transition From Conventional to Wild and Naturally Farmed Tea
As my awareness expanded, I slowly noticed that after drinking tea, the bitterness and sweetness on my tongue would not dissolve, I would sense my throat being irritated or...
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Our Curation Process
Tea has infinite forms of expressions, which are mixed with complex factors such as the environments, the species, the production process and other elements. All these create the attributes of tea...
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satotea
- first encounter w/ Taiwanese tea
- from vision to execution
- what is satotea?
- why wild & naturally farmed tea?