It's a Tea-Time

In Chinese tradition, Chinese Tea plays an important role in life, you may see they drink tea many times in day, 

breakfast: dim-sum with a pot of tea

dinner: meals with a pot of tea

leisure time: chit-chatting with friends or reading book with a pot of tea

For sure, Chinese Tea came from China, with four even five thousand years history.

Chinese Tea Culture, Cha-Dao (茶道) was spread overall the world and now there are several Chinese Tea Culture which modified according to the local culture and their dietary habit.

Daddy is one of the Chinese Tea lovers, he drinks Chinese Tea, Cha (茶) every night after dinner.

Here I am to introduce our Lim's Cha-Dao

Basic equipments to make tea, in Chinese we called Pao-Cha,泡茶

And also this is important

According to the traditional Cha-Dao, the water used to Pao-Cha should be boiling in conflagration, it is helpful to extract the tea flavour.

Yet,

water which boiling too long will reproduce Carbon Dioxide in the water and makes the fragrant and taste of tea in poorer than. 

Tie Guanyin is a variety of oolong tea, is one of the common Chinese Tea in market and the price is reasonable.

This is also one of my daddy favourite tea.

First at all, daddy will blanching the tea-set  (photo of right) as it will increase the temperature of tea-set to enhance or maintain the temperature is high enough to bring out the tea aroma and taste.

We can put in the tea-leaves now in teapot A now

The hot water pour into teapot A 

The first pass is to be drained of water, tea known as the wash

People claims this wash is because to antihygienie as tea-leaves are made from complicated procedures, it may wash away the dust which might insert while the tea-leaves progressing.

The real is:-

This wash is to soak, to ensure the tea-leaves is emitting after wash and also to antihygienie in minority (as the procedures is not that unhygienic and the production process uses High Temperature Sterilization technology ensure the food is safety).

 According to professional, this wash is less than 3 seconds.   

Teapot B is purpose to filter away the tea-leaves and avoid over-steeping

Some people will chew or eat the tea-leaves, 

yea, it is healthy but scientists were proved that those tea-leaves which were steep by boiling is cancerigenic.

Over-steeping of tea-leaves makes caffeine and tannic acid, it will cause the gastrointestinal stimulation

Tea is served   =]

And normally one pot of tea-leaves can make for 3-4 times.

Do You Know?

Chinese Tea is good for healthy, it...

1.  Can enhance and strengthen your thoughts and memory.
2.  Can eliminating fatigue, promoting metabolism. 
3.  Can prevent decsyed teeth.
4.  Can inhibiting cell ageing, prolong life.
5.  Is anti-obesity. 
6.  Can prevent senile cataract.
7.  Is sunstroke prevention.
8. and so on.... 

 　

Mummy will use the tea-leaves to make tea-pillow.

It is one of the Chinese culture as well, let the used-tea-leaves dry in the sun.

Make sure the leaves in very dry condition, sewing it into cloth.

Tea-pillow possess the function of soothing the nerves, and eliminating fatigue quickly as well, thus let you sleep sweetly. 

*click on image for enlarge

by Jeffney Lim @ ifunblock