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Similar to Yixing teapots made from the same clay, tea pets are unglazed, and are mostly monochromatic with a rough surface. [2] A tea pet is typically placed on a tea tray and has tea poured over it during tea time. Due to the tea pet not being glazed, the figurine absorbs some of the tea, resulting in the tea pet changing color over time, as ...
Gongfu tea (Teochew: gang1 hu1 dê5) or kung fu tea (Chinese: 工夫茶 or 功夫茶; both gōngfū chá), literally "making tea with skill", [1] is a traditional Chinese tea preparation method sometimes called a "tea ceremony". [2] [3] It is probably based on the tea preparation approaches originating in Fujian [4] and the Chaoshan area of ...
Used to steep tea leaves in hot water Tea kettle: Used to boil water Teacup: Vessels from which to drink the hot tea (after the leaves have been strained). There are many different kinds of tea cups. Tea tray: Used to hold teaware; also keeps the tea and hot water from spilling onto the table Tea strainer: Used to extract leaves from tea solutions
Bake Lemon Bars. A spring or summer tea party calls for bright, delicious flavors, and lemon certainly fits the bill! Bake buttery, tart-sweet lemon bars, top them with a dusting of powdered sugar ...
A traditional Chinese tea set consists of special clay or porcelain teapots, teacups, tea spoons, tea strainers, draining trays, tea forceps (for the leaves), a large forceps (for the tea cups) and occasionally, tea caddies. All of these are kept on a special wooden tea tray with an inbuilt draining arrangement and a holder for the drained ...
A tea draining tray, tea tray, Gongfu tea tray, or tea sea is an integral piece of equipment for the Gongfu tea ceremony.. It is essentially a grate, which allows excess and waste liquids to be drained away, and either collected in a pan under the grate, or drained away through a hose that carries the waste water and tea to a bucket or other drain.
Chinese tea culture, especially the material aspects of tea cultivation, processing, and teaware also influenced later adopters of tea, such as India, the United Kingdom, and Russia (even though these tea cultures diverge considerably in preparation and taste). Tea is still consumed regularly in modern China, both on casual and formal occasions.
Many tea connoisseurs will steep only one type of tea in a particular Yixing teapot, so that future brewings of the same type of tea will be optimally enhanced. In contrast, brewing many different types of tea in a Yixing pot is likely to create a coating of mishmashed flavors that muddy the taste of future brewings.