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

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!

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!

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!

EAST X WEST - a good combination : Ruby Black Tea v.s. Kaiserschmarrn

The "Kaiserschmarrn" we made was according to the recipe on the pack of "Dr. Oetker". The only difference should be the "powdered sugar" on the top. We used honey to replace it. It still tasted great!!!
 
The tea we matched with Kaiserschmarrn was "Ruby Black Tea", without milk and sugar in tea. "Ruby Black Tea" has its natural and original aroma of honey, mint and a little bit of cinnemon, in different levels while tasting tea. Both "Ruby Black Tea" and "Kaiserschmarrn" kept their own characters and not conflict to each other. Would you like to try it too? Bon appetit!

Find us in a simple way!

Find us in a simple way: by searching "Formosa T-house".

There are 2 websites for you to find us too!

www.formosa-teahouse.com

www.formosa-t-house.com

EAST X WEST - a good combination : Oriental Beauty Tea v.s. Napoleon Pie

This pie is called "Napoleon Pie" in Taiwan, it sounds full of stories inside the pie.

Of course, there are still many people just call it as "Mille Feuille".

The tea on the photo is the famous one in Taiwan,

Nature-farming tea plantation

How was your summer? Although we have processed our website re-construction until now (the work will be finished soon, thank you for your waiting!), we still enjoyed our summer time very much especially visited some tea plantations. For the ones in center and south of Taiwan, you could see the photos here and on our Facebook. And now, we are posting a few shots from visiting the nature-farming tea plantations in the suburban of Taipei.

This tea farmer owns several tea plantations in his family. He has stopped using the chemistry and fertilizer for a very long time. In other words, the tea plantations have been desolated for many years. Therefore, seeing many bugs, spiders and other things you can imagine (for example, snakes) will be very possible! :)

As mentioned, the tea plantations have been desolated for a long time, we also could see the Awn Grass as tall as a man. These Awn Grass can be the good organic fertilizer to the plantations. The tea trees are old, and many of them are older than 60 years old!

How was the tea? That was tasted soooo great!!!

Everyone has the great things from our mother land, it seems that we don't need other artificial materials to make our world better!

↑ Beautiful? It was smelled and tasted so great!

↑ We need tea farmers to insist on making good tea! Their hands are probably rough, but as long as they have a good heart to their tea trees, then having good tea won't be so difficult.

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