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The Legends of Lapsang Souchong

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The Legends of Lapsang Souchong

There is only one way to produce Lapsang Souchong. Souchong leaves, noted for their thick, rough appearance are withered over burning pine bows, placed in barrels covered with cloth and allowed to ferment. A process which has gone virtually unchanged for hundreds of years. And who came up with the idea? Like many developments in the world of tea there is more than one story. One story maintains that during the Qing Dynasty an army unit passing through a small village decided to camp in a tea factory. Once they were gone, the workers realized that the only way to...

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Types of Tea

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Types of Tea

What do white, yellow, green, oolong, black, and pu-erh teas all have in common? They all come from the same plant, Camellia Sinensis (aka tea plant, tea tree or tea shrub). The difference between the teas is mostly in how they are processed.

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