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Yum Cha – Keeping the Traditions Alive

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Yum Cha, literally translating to ‘drink tea’, is an ancient Cantonese tradition of breaking bread with friends and families in tea houses. Cantonese are the people that inhabit Hong Kong, Macau and the wider province of Guangdon, including Guangzhou in China. You will rarely come across a Hong-Konger who has never been to Yum Cha. This…

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Monkey Tea Pluckers of China

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According to a Chinese legend, the earliest tea pluckers were monkeys. The rarest and best teas came from bushes growing in cliffs and other such places inaccessible by humans. The Buddhist monks therefore trained monkeys to pluck leaves from bushes that men could not reach. A variant of this legend has it that the Chinese…