Chinese Green Tea

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Summary: Chinese green tea varies in shapes, colors, and sizes. Learn about Chinese green tea with tips from a tea lounge owner in this free tea brewing video.

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Kim Pham Kim Pham co-owns the Kaleisia Tea Lounge in Tampa since 2004. She has traveled extensively to cultivate her knowledge of tea and learn the supply chain from s... read more

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Chinese Green Tea

What is Chinese green tea? It's actually a lot more fun than Japanese green tea. In my experience. Because Chinese green tea comes in a wide variety of shapes, sizes and colors. If you look at these samples I have here, you have a tea that's rolled into small little pellets and when you brew it, it explodes like gunpowder, that's why this tea is called gunpowder. You have another tea, look here, look how different these shapes are. Small and large. This is a jasmine green actually you don't see the jasmine blossoms because it's the way that it's been scented is different then adding just the tea, the flower, what they do is they take it out after it's been scented. This is one of the most popular Japanese green tea as well. And this is called an anji green. And this is a jasmine pearl. Now jasmine pearls are almost the same as jasmine green tea in that it has a jasmine aroma but the great part about jasmine pearl is only a few pellets will make a great amount of tea. This much tea will brew you about a full sixteen ounce cup of tea. And the dragon, sorry , I meant the dragon well is one of the most famous tea in China and it's grown in the Hung-so province. All these teas have very different characteristics, so when you are looking at Chinese green tea be careful of the shapes. Because the shapes tell you a lot, if it's rolled into small pellets you are expecting a stronger cup of tea. That's a lot, maybe a bit more astringent. If you want a briskier flavor that's light and calming, you want to go with a full leaf tea, like such that has not yet been rolled.