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Tea Type or Tisane | Flavors: Green | watercress, snow pea pods
Tea Tips: When steeping this tea, we recommend using a tall glass. This allows the large leaves to have the vertical room they need to release their flavors. After finishing the first steeping, continue adding more hot water until the flavor fades.
Ingredients: China, Anhui Province, Taiping County green tea
How to Steep: 2-2.5 gm of tea, 8 oz water, 175°F, 3-4 min
Fun Fact: Taiping is the name of the county in Anhui Province, Hou means monkey, and kui means king. Chinese legend suggests a Peaceful Monkey King was killed by a group of warring monkeys. In honor of the Monkey King, a sympathetic farmer buried the king near his tea garden. In spring, and as Chinese tea mythology suggests, tea plants with enormous leaves grew where the Monkey King was buried.
Similar Teas: Spring Buds, Green Needles Organic, Kukicha