Many of tea lovers are interested in finding out what dessert to match well with tea. Since long time, in China, where produces hundreds of tea has a slang and mentions about this issue. It said that the sweets match green tea, the sour ones match black tea and the salted dessert match Oolong tea.
The slang possibly could come from the old time when people didn't have so many choices for their tea time. Nowadays, people seem not following this "rule" and still make the tea time perfectly.
We have some great seasonal olives from the forest in Nantou, Taiwan. They were made with a very simple and natural way. By this good chance, we would like to taste it by following the old slang -- salted olives v.s. Li Shan (High Mountain) Oolong Tea.
The Li Shan Oolong Tea came from the altitude 2,200 to 2,500 meters in Taiwan. The quality of this tea was premium. It had a refreshing fragrance and tasted so smooth in the mouth. The salted olives also brought a light fragrance and there was no conflict between olives and tea -- they matched well. It seemed that the slang made sense.
However, for us, we still prefer having tea and dessert separately, instead of having dessert in between. Which means, to have the dessert after finishing tea. To concentrate on each brewing tea is important so that we can find out and taste the differences in tea.
