TEA INFORMATION

Our main categories of Chinese tea are Green Tea, Black Tea, Oolong Tea, White Tea.

Chinese Green Tea

Chinese Green tea is light and refreshing. Well known for its many health benefits, Chinese Green tea helps to prevent cancer, lowers cholesterol & blood pressure, strengthens the immune system, prevents cavities, reduces stress and regulates ageing.

Chinese Black Tea
Tastes thick and robust. Tea connoisseurs appreciate Chinese Black tea as a beverage with various purifying qualities. Chinese Black tea blends easily with other flavors to create a rich and exquisite taste. Regular consumption of Chinese Black tea can reduce risk of stroke.

Chinese Oolong Tea 
Flowery sweet aroma combined with a pleasantly sweet aftertaste, Chinese Oolong tea never ceases to lose its appeal no matter how often you drink it. Chinese Oolong tea increases your body energy, promotes metabolism, controls obesity and helps to regulate ageing.

Chinese White Tea 
Chinese white tea is light and delicately smooth. It is the least processed tea, undergoing just steaming and drying, leaving it close to its natural state. Recent studies have shown that Chinese White tea contains more cancer-fighting antioxidants than any other teas.

Pu-erh Tea 
Pu-erh is renowned for its medicinal qualities. Unlike other teas, Pu-erh's quality and taste improves with age. Its taste is often described as earthy but some very well aged Pu-erh produce cups of incredibly smooth and wonderfully complex beverage.

Health benefits from drinking tea

Aid Digestion
Tea has antibacterial, antioxidant, antiseptic and detoxifying properties that make it effective in treating infectious dysentery as well as easing inflammatory bowel disease.

Prevent Heart Disease
A recent study found that drinking more than two cups of tea a day helps to decrease the risk of death following a heart attack by 44 percent.

Prevent Cancer
Green tea extracts were found to inhibit the growth of bladder cancer cells in the lab - while other studies suggest that drinking green tea protects against developing stomach, prostate and esophageal cancers.

Prevent Arthritis
Research suggests that older women who are tea drinkers are 60 percent less likely to develop rheumatoid arthritis than those who do not drink tea.

Increase Bone Density
Drinking tea regularly for years may produce stronger bones. Those who drank tea on a regular basis for 10 or more years had higher-bone mineral density in their spines than those who had not.

Aid Oral Health
Researchers who have been investigating the medicinal properties of tea think that tea may be able to help people afflicted with bad breath, or halitosis, prevent cavities and gum disease.

Strengthen the Immune System
The antioxidant, detoxifying antibacterial properties of tea, as well as the vitamins and minerals present in tea helps to strengthen our immune system.

Careful storing of your teas are important to keep quality loss to a minimum. Here are a few guidelines:

It is also important to know that each type of tea has a different shelf life. The taste of the Green tea begin to deteriorate within a year while Oolong teas can be stored for several years with little loss of quality.

Brewing

Brewing parameters for each category of Chinese tea:

Category	Green & White Tea	Oolong Tea		Black Tea	Pu-erh Tea
Tea Ware	Glass, Porcelain	Purple Clay, Porcelain		Purple Clay, Porcelain	Purple Clay
Tea Leaves Quantity	2 grams (1-2 teaspoons) per 150ml of water	Fill teapot 1/4 to 1/3 full		2 grams (1-2 teaspoons) per 150ml of water	Fill teapot 1/4 to 1/3 full
Water Temp.	70°c - 80°c	100°c		100°c	100°c
Steeping Time	1 minute for 1st and 2nd brewing. Gradually increase steeping time by 10-20 seconds for subsequent brewing.

Use a thermometer (if available) to check the water temperature. Otherwise judge it visually, at 70°c the water is restless but not yet simmering. At 85 to 90°c, bubbles are rising across the entire surface and the water is starting to steam.

Note: This is brewing parameters serve as a general guideline only. We recommend that you try different brewing parameters according to your personal preference and taste.