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  • When French Pastry meets Tea In Toronto

    Really really appreciate Juan from Pastisserie La Cigogne offering me my all time favorite cakesss to pair with my All Natural Orange Pekoe !If you love authentic French pastry and Premium Teas , please visit Pastisserie La Cigogne at 1419 Danforth Avenue and 1626 Bayview Avenue !

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  • Tasting Old Tree Phoniex DanCong Tea in Toronto

    We are tasting the Old Tree Phoniex DanCong ! Very long lasting, it is already the 8th steep now 單從～ 回甘豐富！DanCong are produced in Canton province, where is my first home town ! The first three steeps are full of aroma of white orchid. from the forth infusion till the 12 infusion, the soup tastes sweet and the tea soup remains amber yellow !      

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  • Homemade tea cake in Toronto

    Handmade cakes ! JUST Pressed two 50g puer cakes 10 mins ago with 2010 Horse Mountain(MaDeng mountain) Old Tree leaves~ I collected and made the original tea cake during 2010 spring tea trip in YunNan !More stories about the tea and the tea mountain : http://www.tanlongtea.com/collections/our-teas-puer/products/spring-of-horse-mountain-old-tree-tea      

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  • YunNan - Our Second Home

    美麗的雲南大雪山野放古茶園,第二個家鄉。 The beautiful YunNan Snow Mountain Ancient Tea Tree Forest ! where we call the second home- YunNan(South of the Cloud and Mist Mountains) Trees are between 300-400 years old, no one knows who planted them..if you have a second please help like our page by clicking LIKE on this link:https://www.facebook.com/TanLongTea ! We also have a website that you can visit at www.tanlongtea.com! Please do check it out if you have time! Share it with your friends as well! We are currently based in Toronto and China, so feel fee to reach out to us! Thanks guys and girls

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  • 1500 Years of History Tang Dynasty Outfit meets with TEA

    Promoting traditional Chinese tea culture at the Canada Best Chinese food culinary competition in an authentic Tang Dynasty outfit Tang Dynasty (618~907) was one of the most prosperous time or dynasty of China. The first Tea Book By LuYu was written at that Time . Back in the Tang Dynasty ,1398 years ago ! China was the only country had proper tea ceremony ! Promoting traditional chinese tea culture at the Canada Best Chinese food culinary competition in an authentic Tang Dynasty outfit . Upscale family unmarried girls wear this outfit at that time. Tang Dynasty (618~907) was one of the most prosperous time...

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  • pu'erh tea production processing

      CLEAN AND CLEAR AIR 3000 METERS ABOVE SEA LEVEL (200 YEAR OLD TEA LEAVES FOR OUR PUER)     MORE THAN 200 YEARS OLD TEA TREES ! AMAZINGLY HUGE !  WHERE OUR ANCIENT TREES TEA CAME FROM   LI GUO JAI 'S FAMILY GROWN THEM HUNDREDS YEARS AGO AT THEIR MOUNTAIN HOUSE BACKYARD.      LARGE LADY BUGS ON NON-PESTICIDE TREE ! SO CLEAN~    WITHERING INDOOR     PAN FRY KILL GREEN     ROLLING     SECRET OF PUERH TEA: SUN DRY!  SUN DRYING PUERH TEA CAN AVOID THE TEA TURN BITTER AFTER MANY YEARS OF STORAGE TIME. PUERH TEAS...

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  • Tea Production Pictures

      Black Tea   Picking the Tea leaves !       Withering: Using of Withering Trough      Rolling machine      SECRET OF BLACK TEA : Oxidizing, fermenting the tea       Drying Baking machine :  stop fermentation and any further chemical reactions taking place Female Tea entrepreneur Li , she supports her family by making Black teas.  outside her workshop: sun drying Puer Tea   OUTDOOR TEA TASTING AND CHATTING with YunNan tea farmer. Sister in law of the female entrepreneur Li. She helps the family to distribute the teas after production, she travel 2 hours everyday...

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  • Orange Pekoe Tea Bag Teas are actually not real Orange Pekoe?

      Did you know that Orange Pekoe is actually not a type of tea with orange flavor ? It is one of the terms  use for identify quality of black teas.  Pekoe is translated from CHINESE pronunciation of Bai Hao （ Pekoe) 白毫 .. Basically the tea bags people drink everyday ARE NOT the grade of Orange Pekoe.  Pekoe is among the best grades of  TEA leaves, which is "a bud and two leaves".  The highest grade of black tea leaf is called the  Finest Tippy Golden Flowery Orange Pekoe. how does it look like : http://tanlongtea.com/collections/products-of-the-week/products/productThen what is the...

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  • Yes ! You Can Help Stop Poverty with Us Through Tea Trading 你也能與我們一起幫助貧困山區的茶農

    Most of our Ancient Tee Tree Teas are from the remote region of YunNan, where is the origin of tea in the world. The oldest wild  tea trees which over 1500 years old are found in YunNan's primeval forests.   YunNan is surrounding by high altitude mountains which isolated the region from modern pollution. Unpolluted environment  in YunNan provides ideal growing conditions for fine teas.  Our signature Ancient Tree Teas are growing on the mountains over 3000 meters above sea level. High altitude areas are optimal for tea cultivation and natural drainage.    However, YunNan is still one of the...

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  • How To Pluck Tea Leaves on the Tall Ancient Trees 如何採摘古樹茶

    現在市場上，大部分茶葉都是大規模生產的，所以為了提高產量，多數都用機器採茶。 我們的古樹茶在全天然的海拔2000米以上高山生長，因為樹齡茶過百年以上，所以少數民族茶農們很多時採茶需要用梯子爬到樹上採摘最嫩的茶芽。 茶農生活比較簡樸，他們靠養牛豬和採茶過活。 沒有多餘的錢買肥料，而且茶樹生長環境很好，根本不需要農藥， 茶農就用牲畜的天然肥料幫助茶樹生長 以下圖片就是人手採摘的春茶，帶有 “蒂口” Now days, most of the teas are producing in mass production. The use machine to cut the tea leafs in order to boost up the revenue. Our ancient tree teas are 100% hand pluck and 100% natural without pesticide and chemical fertilizers. What does Hand Pluck Leafs look like? How to distinguish the difference between hand plucked leaves and machine cut leaves?    Hand pluck leaves' cut are uneven. By looking at this leaf, we know this is a tea leaf plucked in the spring, because the "round" head on the leaf bottom. ...

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