When buying tea

When just thought I probably have tasted a lot of tea in my life, then I was surprised by a tasteless tea (from tea bag with nice name and beautiful paper box packaging) .

Good or bad quality tea (even for CTC or tea dust packed in tea bag) has some kind of aroma and taste. But that tea that I dronk in a prestiege restaurant in Brussels last Friday was absolutely NONE. There was no any sense of natural or aromatic aroma with the dried tea bag and tea; there is no taste, just a cup of warm water with tea color. The tea was labelled as pure tea, but I wonder where, what and how it was made of.

What you are looking for when buying tea?

• Brand that sounds nice or famous?
• Tea name? How much you know about tea? Are you aware there are many different quality classifications for same type of tea name? Certainly green tea or black tea (red tea in Chinese) is tea category but not tea name.
• Price factor? It is subject to what kind of quality of tea you like to drink.

  Taiwan Hongshui Oolong that has unique characters from both Taiwan Oolong and Red Tea

• Individual preference? Some people prefer pure and fine quality tea, some people prefer aromatic flavored tea. There is no right or wrong choice, but a plain simple individual choice.

Are you looking for pure and fine quality teathat can match with your restaurant and/or hotel's image? Please contact us. We provide:
1) Pure and fine quality tea from Taiwan, China and Darjeeling
2) Consultancy and training

Belgium Chinese Tea Arts Centre

Mei Lan Hsiao

Email: info@chinese-tea-arts.com

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