Fancy Dragon Tea Blog

    Did you know that Gon Fu Cha is the most important tea ceremony in China? It’s held on special occasions or in the tea shops to represent you the best qualities of tea. Gong Fu literary means “supreme mastery” or “high art”, and Cha, respectively, “tea.” So, Gong Fu Cha – means “supreme mastery of tea.”

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    The tradition of tea drinking in China has evolved over thousands of years creating many ways to make tea. So, there are numerous styles of tea drinking – from very casual to very formal.

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Since the fall is here, the stores are abundant with different types of squashes and potatoes. I happen to love squash soup and usually make the traditional butternut squash with ginger and other spices. Recently, I came upon the recipe in “Eat Tea” that used Lapsang Souchong, one of my favorite black tea from China that is traditionally smoked over pine wood. I thought, hm, that is very interesting. I had no idea what to expect but decided to make my own take on traditional and tea-infused recipes. I have to say that I love the results.

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      Since Paul and I travelled extensively outside of United States, we decided to dedicate this year to travelling within the US. As I noted in some of my posts (see How it all started – Part I), we tend to venture out to far away lands more often than we explore our own backyard. So, to make things fair, we decided to spend a 3 week driving trip throughout Pacific Northwest – Oregon and Washington.

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     I have my favorite tea shop in Shenzhen, China, where I live. It is not big and inside is not very beautiful; people there do not wear traditional Chinese clothing. I don’t need all this “tinsel”.

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It’s not a secret that tea is most popular drink in the world. We drink tea in the morning and in the evening, with friends and when we are alone, and in lots of other situation. The more we drink tea, the more we know about it.

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Part 1

    Have you ever had a feeling to just drop everything you do, get on a bike, and travel to some exotic country to cross it without much comfortable accommodations? No??… Well, I had.

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I went to China for the first time during September of 2009. Isn't it ironic how you can live next to some place and never visit it? Why should you, right, you can always later? That's how we travel all over the word but don't see things that are close to home. Well, exactly my situation  – for 17 years of my life in Vladivostok, Russia, I've never travelled to China and Japan, which are practically in our backyard

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Continuation of the report. Part 1

… The end of the dialog in Part 2…..

Andrey: Would you please tell me about how many times I can steep different types of tea and which is considered the best?

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