Happy Birthday to Taiwan!

Penghu Island: "The world’s best secret islands"

↑ photo: The China Post
The Twin Hearts Stone Weir in Chimei, the Penghu Islands, is piled with stones in the shape of two hearts. It was built to catch fish by the local residents as the fish would be stranded in the hearts when the high tide recedes. (CNA)


Penghu Island is selected to be "The world’s best secret islands" by Lonely Planet! You won't be able to find the tea trees on the island, but you absolutely can enjoy a different life style and great vacation on this beautiful island.
Welcome to Taiwan!

More report: The China Post

Frohe Weinachten

Flying to Dresden, Germany tomorrow

↑ Most of things from Formosa T-house are hand-made including writing the cards for customers/senders. It shows the sincerity from the sender and from Formosa T-house.

Hurry, hurry! These presents are flying to Dresden, Germany tomorrow early morning. These presents are dressed very well for the holidays and even not afraid of the long trip from east to west.  

Have a nice trip, finest Taiwan Teas and lovely T-Cups! 

Tea of Today: Muzha Tieguanyin Tea

How's the weather in your city today?


We had a rainy and cold day in Taipei and actually it's the typical weather we have in winter. To drink tea in such a cold day, the tea with the mild to heavy fermented will be very matched, therefore, black tea and Puerh could be the choices. What about Oolong? There are so many different kinds of Oolong, which one can be a better choice? We would like to suggest the heavy fermented and roasted Tieguanyin Tea for the day. But here we are not talking about the Tieguanyin Tea with the very light fermented which is very popular in Fujian, Guangdong and some areas of China, that is tasted like Baozhong Tea or High Mountain Oolong Tea won't be the one we say for the cold day here.


The Muzha Tieguanyin Tea we had today was harvested in November 2006 and since then it was roasted by the tea farmer every year with the traditional method (used electricy to roast instead of "charcoal" for a better control on temperature) before we ordered in. It's a kind of tea going to be the "Aged Tea" and should be roasted every year if we'd like to store it well.


This Muzha Tieguanyin Tea was made of the sort of tea tree of Tieguanyin, we call it the "Real or/and Right Tieguanyin Tea" as there are many Tieguanyin teas made of other types of tea trees.

The liguid of tea looked darker than the tea liquid of High Mountain Oolong Tea because it has been roasted for many times, so the color of tea liguid shouldn't be looked like green or honey. The taste of the tea certainly was stronger than light fermented Oolong tea, that was also the reason we chosed it for today.

How to keep the dried tea well? To vacuum it in an aluminum foil bag and avoid the air and wet is the best way, or seal the tea bag well in a good way and put it into a ziplock can also be a good choice at home.


The Tieguanyin Tea which has been deep-roasted by charcoal will be introduced next time, in the cold day like today.



More info: Muzha Tieguanyin Tea

The Xmas tea packages to Tokyo

↑ This kind of red is so Christmas ... :)


↓ The copies for the sender.

All the Xmas tea packages ordered by Ms. L. have been sent out to Tokyo this afternoon, from Taipei, by EMS.


We are the familiar customers to the staffs in the post office we usually go to. When they saw us brought the packages and stepped into post office carefully again, they stood up right away and helped us to carry the packages.  This post office is very close to us, thank God.


We'd like to take some photos with our packed prodcuts in post office for Ms. L. (actually she didn't reqire us to do that), but at the end, we all forgot about it as we concentrated on what we were doing - writing & posting - so much.  But we believe that the receivers in Tokyo will be very surprised by receiving the presents from Ms. L., we think that will be a touching and exciting moment when they are opening the presents!


We hope the receivers enjoy the teas from Taiwan and have a Merry Christmas!

Delivery Services to the United Kingdom

According to the notice from the administration of the United Kingdom, due to heavy snow, all the delivery services including Express Service in the country, especially for the areas listed below, are subject to delay until further notice.


We all care the heavy snow in Europe and some parts of US, the futher notice will be updated here.


✿ PEACE & LOVE  from Formosa T-house ✿



Affected Areas                     Postal Codes                                                          
Aberdeen                              AB

Charlton                                BR, DA, E1, E3, E14, E1W, E98, SE2-28

Edinburgh                             EH, FK, KY1-4, KY11-12, KY99, TD

Gatwick                                BN, RH

Glasgow                               G, HS9, KA, ML, PA

Inverness                              HS1-8, IV, KW1-17, PA39-40, PH30-44, PH49-50

Leeds                                   BD, HD, HX, LS, WF

Lincoln                                 DN31-41, LN, NG34, PE10-12, PE20-25

London Central                    SW5-7, W1-2, W9, WC

London North West              W10-14, WD

Medway                              CT, ME, TN23-30

Mitcham                              CR, KT, SM, SW2, SW4, SW8-9, SW11-12, SW15-20, SW99

Newcastle                           DH7-9, DH97-99, NE

North Essex                        CM, SS

Nottingham                         DE, NG

Perth                                  DD, KY5-10, KY13-16, PH1-26

Romford                            E4, E6-7, E10-13, E15-18, IG, RM

Rotherham                         DN1-22, DN55, S

Solent                                PO, SO, SP1-4, SP10-11

Tonbridge                          TN

The tea map of Taiwan

Taiwan has the special cultivation environment. Tea plantations can be found from north to south on the whole island. The growing areas of Taiwanese tea are situated along the Central Mountain Ridges and its branches, where the drop of vertical distribution from sea level is significant, with ample sun exposure and the Black Tide ocean on the east.


With an island climate, which is cold and wet in the winter and hot and rainy in the summer, coupled with the acidic to mild acidic soil with a 4 to 6.4 Ph value, those make Taiwan to be an ideal area for the cultivation of tea trees. So that there are numerous tea farms in Taiwan which have won for themselves a lasting fame as a renowned quality tea production region in the world.


(Reference of article: "Tea Research and Extension Station in Taiwan")

The performances of Cha Xi in Taiwan

"Cha Xi" is also an art in tea culture. The host/hostess expresses himself/herself by different Cha Xi. Cha Xi can be displayed and changed due to different seasons, teas and venues etc.. The host/hostess makes the tea for the guests.


There were several Cha Xi performances held by The Chinese Art Of Tea Craft Union in Taiwan, the photos were taken before the ceremonies of Cha Xi performances.

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We believe that you will love our Christmas tea packages

we prepare for you for such cold winter time!

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