One of the most common beginner tea questions is also one of the easiest to overcomplicate: How much tea should you use per cup? The short answer is to start with about 2 to 3 grams of loose leaf tea for a standard 240-milliliter cup. If you do not have…
Walk into a tea shop or browse an online tea store and you may find two teas that look almost identical, yet one costs three times as much as the other. Is the expensive tea genuinely better? Or are you paying for a prettier tin, a famous name and a…
Buying loose leaf tea online can feel strangely difficult. Before choosing a vendor, read our Chinese tea guide for beginners to understand the main tea types and what suits you. In a shop, you can look at the leaves, smell the tea and ask someone what it tastes like. Online,…
Loose tea leaves offer more room for the leaves to open and release aroma. If you are trying to choose between loose leaf tea and tea bags, the answer is not as dramatic as tea enthusiasts sometimes make it sound. Loose leaf tea can offer more aroma, more texture and…
After work, many people do not truly rest. They close the laptop, answer one more message, scroll for a few minutes, check tomorrow's schedule, reheat dinner, open another app and wonder why the evening already feels gone. The body leaves work before the mind does. A tea ritual can help…
Tea should not always taste bitter. Some teas naturally have a little bite. A young sheng pu-erh may feel sharp. A strong black tea may have a dry edge. A green tea can taste grassy and brisk. But if every cup you brew tastes harsh, sour, mouth-drying or unpleasantly bitter,…