Perna: Welcome to watchmojo.com, I’m your host Perna, and today I’m going to take inside the world of tea. Well, not exactly but I will be taking you inside a store that specializes in tea, which is right behind me and I will be talking to tea specialist Fiona Zu, come with me. Hi Fiona.
Fiona: Hello!
Perna: So can you tell me a little bit of a history about tea?
Fiona: Yes, well tea started at approximately 4000 years ago in china, and it basically started because a bunch doctors they started to say, Okay we’ll try different types of herbs and then just to test the effect on our body, and that’s a way of finding how to cure certain diseases. And there was a legend that comes from with a, she actually started boiling water under a tree and then a chilli fall into the boiling water randomly and then he decided to bring it home and to drink it, and after he realizes that, there’s healing effects.
Perna: I’m glad. If someone’s to try tea but, doesn’t know what kind of flavor would suit him or her best, I mean can you give him some suggestions?
Fiona: There’s, for example for people who like sweet taste can try the lychee red tea, which is a black tea that is fermented with the lychee juice, which is a sweet fruit. For people who like flowery tea then there’s a popular jasmine tea that you could try. For people who want strong tea, they can try the Cantonese black tea, which is a dark tea, and then we even have a Oolong tea that helps you wake you up like an espresso in the morning.
Perna: So what would you suggest are the best materials to use when you are making the water for the tea?
Fiona: Some people like—they are very picky, they want a tea be very good, they want it to taste very well. So most of the time, they choose to use what we call purple clay. Purple clay actually have the benefit of absorbing the scent of the tea, so if you jasmine or you made jasmine tea in the type of tea pot, the taste going to stay inside of it. Then we have porcelain, which is most of the time white porcelain like this, and then we have the glasswares. Glassware is a modern approach to tea. It's basically, people who want to see the tealeaf during the process of infusion.
Perna: And do you mind telling me a little bit of your blooming tea that you showed me earlier?
Fiona: The blooming tea, as I said before it's a new approach for tea. It's basically a little tea ball like these that once you put in hot water it will start blooming. So how do you like it?
Perna: I really like it, it’s light but it has a very light floral taste to it to.
Fiona: Exactly, that’s what we want.
Perna: Okay.
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