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…
In some little corner of a long winding road snaking its way amidst hilly slopes sits a ramshackle wooden cabin, almost like an open crate. A misty morning, few stopped cars, and a flock of travelers coming from different placing and going off to different destinations have only one thing in common. All of them…
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…
The Chinese philosopher, Lao Tzu called it “the elixir of life”. It has been hailed as “the drink of the gods and of men”. Rituals have emerged, poetry written, even wars have been waged. There has been no beverage with a history as fascinating as Tea. Mythical beginnings According to a popular Chinese legend, Shen…
