The great tea presents from a Chinese tea lover

The great tea presents we received from a tea lover in Shenzhen, China.

Comparing with the luxury boxes and decorations for the tea presents you can see in China, this kind of simple package is impressed. 

The most important thing is drinking tea, right?

最開心的，莫過於是收到朋友自己的精選好禮。

在大陸，茶禮包裝比精美、比氣派，

像這樣內裝用透明塑膠袋的，

表現的絕對是選茶人／送禮人對茶品質的自信！

↑ Wuyi Narcissus

武夷水仙

Happy Chinese New Year!

Our T-shop will be closed from 9 February to 17 February because of Chinese New Year vacation. 

If any query, you are welcome to contact us through email: 

support@formosa-teahouse.com, 

we will response you right after vacation. 

Thank you for your understanding!

AND,

Happy Chinese New Year!

Fancy Black Tea traveled in China

Fancy Black Tea traveled in China from Taiwan.

In China, it's pretty common to see this kind of mini tea sets in the hotel's room, especially in Fujien Province. 
In some hotels, room guests are served the tea for free, but some not. So, please do check before you brew tea in the hotel rooms in China. Of course, we won't know the quality of the tea in hotel rooms, it would be a nice idea if we bring some tea with us when travel.

Nature-farming tea garden

It's time to change our life style, 

to be more nature and to be more healthy.

For tea, 

we can do it from changing "tea garden management".

There are more and more tea gardens managed by nature-farming in Taiwan.

No matter how people can make good tea,

the most important thing is the tea trees growing on a good and healthy land.

Successful event: HPAIR 2012 in Taiwan

Formosa T-house was honored to join the "Taipei Night" of HPAIR 2012 in Taiwan.

Thank you for all the guests stopping by our booth,

and

tasting our Taiwan Tea!

For more photos,
please check our Facebook!

Dongding Oolong Tea - spring 2012

Due to the climate changed, we can not stop it raining and raining. Thus, it makes us spending more time to have the great tea. ...

Origin: Lugu, Nantou, Taiwan 

Harvest time: mid of April 

The tea maker is an old elder with more than 40 years experience of making tea. 

He is going to be retired soon.

Alles Liebe! [囍悅茶禮]

Alles Liebe! [囍悅茶禮]

Only available at Formosa T-house Co. Ltd.

Please contact: support@formosa-teahouse.com

The "Kai Pian" (開片) of "Imitated Ru Ceramics" (仿汝窯)

Last month on our Facebook page, we mentioned and shared a news about a real imperial "Ru" ceramics of Song dynasty should fetch more than $10 million (a news of Yahoo!). For many of people like us, we also can use the Ru ceramics to brew tea in our daily life and these tea wears are not so expensive and very useful. 


The tea wear set in the photo is for personal use now. The set was purchased in September 2010 and the artist is a Taiwanese and live in Taiwan now. This tea set is not the "imperial" Ru ceramics, but it was truly modeled on the way of making Ru ceramics in the ancient time, we call it "Imitated Ru Ceramics" (仿汝窯).


In the photo, there is one cup is never used since be purchased. It should be easy to tell from the photo. And the rest, they are almost used everyday. Then, we can see the differences from them: the natural pattern in the cup and pot were caused by tea. Actually, we have never left the tea leaves in the cups and pot for overnights, which means we clean them right after finishing brewing tea. This kind of natural pattern we call it "Kai Pian" (開片).

We can see the natural pattern not only in the cup but on the cover!

This kind of natural pattern (Kai Pian) won't be easy to see on the porcelains. That is because the materials and the methods of making tea wears are different. It does not mean the cups or pots with "Kai Pian" will be better or prettier. However, it brings fun while we are brewing and enjoying tea!

Nice tea and pottery in Spring

The best way to welcome Spring should be serving yourself a nice cup of tea.
Have a good day to everyone!
* Tea in the photo: Organic Green Tea of Spring 2011
** The pottery was made by MAO's Design, Taiwan.

Sun-bathing your tea

In Taipei, it finally turns sunny today. Here we would like to suggest if you have some late-fermented tea like Pu-erh, without vacuum-packed, it will be good to have them some sun-bathed. The sunshine is mild and a little breeze, it's very nice for doing SPA for tea.

Well, this Bai-Mu-Dan has a "Sun Block Cover". But we are sure that it will be glad to have a little SPA with other teas together. Ha!

Der Frühling kommt! [The spring comes.]

Even it's a little bit cold lately, we still feel spring here from time to time.

 
That would be wonderful having a cup of black tea to start your lovely weekend!

Have a nice weekend to everyone!
* photo: Ruby Black Tea

Happy Valentine's Day!

"In einem Augenblick gewahrt die Liebe
Was Muhe kaum in langer Zeit erreicht."
~~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

(Love grants in a moment
what toil can hardly achieve in an age."

EAST X WEST -- a good combination: Fancy Black Tea v.s. Raspberry Mousse Cake

Raspberry Mousse Cake v.s. Fancy Black Tea

A girlish style tea time set:

a little bit sour and sweet from the cake, and a lot of fruity fragrance from the tea.

Have a great tea time!

Back to Work!

Happy Dragon Year!

We wish you a successful and happy dragon year!

During the time from 21.01.2012 to 29.01.2012 will be the holiday of Chinese New Year, our office and telephone will be close and won't be available. The order by email or fax, for example, can still reach us and will be completed after holiday immediately. Will back to work on 30 Jan.. Thank you for your understanding.
 

Während der Zeit vom 21.01.2012 bis zum 29.01.2012 (Chinesisches Neujahrsfest) ist unser Büro/Telefon nicht besetzt. Per email oder fax, z.B. für Ihre Bestellung, können Sie uns erreichen. Diese werden dann auch umgehend bearbeitet. Ab Montag den 30. Januar 2012 sind wir wieder für Sie erreichbar.Danke für Ihr Verständniss !

Happy New Year!!

Froh Weihnachten! Merry Christmas!

Wish you have a wonderful Christmas

and

great coming New Year!

EAST X WEST -- a good combination: Fancy Black Tea v.s. Stollen

Except for Glühwein and Weihnachtstee,

maybe try to taste tea without sugar with Stollen together

will be a nice choice for the coming Christmas! 

 ** The tea in the photo is Fancy Black Tea.

Antique Chinese Teapot Exhibition in Tainan

There is a great exhibition you shouldn't miss if you are interested in old Chinese tea wares and currently you are in Taiwan.

In Tainan Municipal Cultural Center, now you can see many Chinese antique tea wares gathering in an exhibition room, those belongs to some private collectors. Most of these tea wares were made in Ching Dynasty.

Exhibition duration: 3 -25 December 2011 (closed on every Mo...nday and Tuesday)
Location: Tainan Municipal Cultural Center (Tainan City, Taiwan)

** This Zi-Sha teapot in the photo was made in end of Ming Dynasty, early of Ching Dynasty.

EAST X WEST -- a good combination : Fancy Black Tea v.s. Scone

Tea for desert, or dessert for tea? To find an appropriate dessert for a certain... tea would be interesting sometimes, when they match nicely.

We had some homemade scones from a private backery/kitchen in Changhua county. And tea, here we adopted Fancy Black Tea which had natural honey fragrance. As usual, we didn't use milk or sugar in tea.

 Bon Appétit!