Umi Tea Sets Blog

In a quart-sized plastic bag, place the tea leaves, cardamom, cloves, and cinnamon sticks. Blow into the bag as if blowing up a balloon. Once it's inflated, hold the bag...

Recent news in the tea world has focussed on Taiwanese tea growing areas switching to the production of black tea, using the base material of traditional Oolong tea leaves to...

Larry Kirkland, one of the most inventive cooks I know, developed this delicious recipe for marinating sea scallops in an aromatic brew of Lapsang Souchong tea. The tea imparts its...

Looking at the aesthetics of Taiwanese high mountain tea from a consumer's perspective Many years ago, a tea seller from New York handed me a name card. On the back...

Everything about these eggs will surprise you, especially how good they taste. Plus, they look spectacular (and kids will be fascinated by their raku-crackled glaze). Dusted with a combination of...

One afternoon in early spring, I took a Yixing teapot, and set about brewing some Taiwanese high mountain tea. As I poured water into the teapot, the steam curled up,...

Teas which are light and offer good flavor. Set in the South China Sea and the Pacific Ocean, Indonesia is a chain of islands that stretch from Malaysia to Papua...

China has the widest range of teas in the world which are of the finest quality, with many still made by hand. Commercial cultivation of tea in China began well...

The Nilgiris, or Blue Mountains, are a stunningly beautiful range of hills that stretch down the southwestern tip of India from the state of Kerala, another tea-growing area, to the...

Tucked away in the foothills of the snow- covered Himalayan mountains of northeast India lies the hill resort of Darjeeling 6,000 feet above sea-level and in the most spectacular setting,...

Teas from the highest region on the island are described as the "champagne" of Ceylon teas. Until the 1860s, the main crop produced on the island of Sri Lanka, then...

Today, tea is grown on both sides of the Brahmaputra Valley, the largest black tea- producing region of the world. In 1993, approximately 155 years after those first chests of...