Pu-erh Tea With Chrysanthemum (Flavored Tea)

Pu-erh tea flavored with chrysanthemum is very popular in Guangdong and Guangxi. Some restaurants offer such tea only to special customers. To derive health benefits, you can also drink it daily.

Pre-brewing Preparations
Tea ware: Cast iron tea cups, covered tea bowl, fairness cup, strainer.
Water: Fill the electric tea kettle with enough water and bring to boil.
Tea leaves: Loose Pu-erh tea (processed), chrysanthemum.

Brewing
1. Warm the covered tea bowl: Pour boiling water into the covered cup.
2. Warm the fairness cup: Pour the hot water from the covered cup into the fairness tea bowl.
3. Warm the teacups: Pour the hot water from the fairness cup into the teacups.
4. Drain the water: Drain the water from the teacups into the water bowl.
5. Take out the tea: Take out the processed Pu-erh tea from the bamboo tea container.
6. Add the tea: Add the tea into the covered teacup with the teaspoon.
7. Take out the chrysanthemum: Take out a suitable amount of chrysanthemum.
8. Add the chrysanthemum: Add the chrysanthemum into the covered tea bowl.
9. Soak the tea: Pour the boiling water into the covered the bowl along its inside to soak the tea.
10. Drain the water: Drain the water for soaking the tea into the water bowl immediately.
11. Add boiling water: Pour the boiling water into the covered tea bowl.
12. Make tea: Pu-erh tea flavored with chrysanthemum is ready.
13. Place the strainer: Place the strainer on the fairness cup.
14. Pour the tea liquid: Pour the prepared tea liquid into the fairness cup.
15. Distribute the tea: Pour the tea from the fairness cup into each cup evenly.
16. Clean the tea stains: Clean the tea stains each time after pouring the tea.

Pu-erh Tea With Milk (Flavored Tea)

This is a traditional as well as trendy way of enjoying Pu-erh tea. Like black tea. Pu-erh tea flavored with milk has a special taste.

Pre-brewing Preparations
Tea Sets: Fairness cup, mixing glass, strainer, milk cup. Ingredients: A cup of milk, a prepared cup of processed tea.

Brewing
1. Pour tea liquid: Pour the prepared processed Pu-erh tea liquid into the fairness cup through the strainer.
2. Pour tea liquid: Pour the tea liquid from the fairness cup into the mixing glass.
3. Add milk: Add milk into the mixing glass to flavor the processed tea liquid.
4. Enjoy tea time: Pu-erh tea flavored with milk has a different taste from black tea with milk.

Flavored Raw Tea With Processed Tea

There are two reasons for assorting raw Pu-erh tea with processed Pu-erh tea: tea manufacturers want to enrich the flavor of the tea by combining the sweetness and freshness of raw tea and the mellowness of processed tea; and some tea traders falsely sell the assorted tea to make profit.
This flavored tea offers the delicate and varying taste and flavor of the combination of different proportions of both types of tea.

Pre-brewing Preparationgs
Tea ware: Electric tea kettle, fairness cup, teacups. Water: Fill the electric tea kettle with enough water and bring it to boil.
Tea: Tea liquid of raw tea and processed tea.

Brewing
1. Pour raw tea liquid: Pour raw the liquid into the tea cups to the level of 20%, 30%, 40% and 50% from Cup 1 to Cup 4 respectively.
2. Prepared raw tea liquid: Four cups with different amounts of raw tea liquid.
3. Pour processed tea liquid: Pour processed tea liquid to the level of 20%, 30%, 40% and 50% from Cup 4 to Cup 1 respectively.
4. Flavored tea liquid: This process shows the natural transition of dark to light color of the tea liquid. Enjoy tea time!

Making Pu-erh Tea In A Container Inside A Teapot

Be it at home or in office, it is convenient and fashionable to make tea in the teapot holding a container.

Pre-brewing Preparations
Tea Set: Teapot (with a container inside), electric tea kettle.
Water: Fill the electric tea kettle with enough water and bring to boil.
Tea leaves: Loosened Pu-erh tea.

Brewing
1. Warm the inner container: Pour boiling water into the inner container.
2. Warm the teapot: Press the button to let water flow out of the container into the teapot.
3. Drain water: Drain the water into the water bowl.
4. Adding tea leaves: Take out the inner container. Add the processed tea.
5. Replace the inner container: Replace the innef container inside the teapot.
6. Soak the leaves: Pour boiling water into the inner container.
7. Funnel the water: Cover the container and press the button to release the water into the teapot.
8. Drain water: Drain the water into the water bowl.
9. Make tea: Pour boiling water into the inner container.
10. Pour the tea liquid: Lift the inner container. Press the button to let the tea liquid flow into teapot.
11. Pour the tea liquid: Pour the tea into the tea cups or directly drink from the container.
12. Appreciate the tea: The special teacup is a teapot and a fairness cup.

Flavored Pu-erh Tea

In the past, Pu-erh tea was known as "tea for the elderly," and today it is called "tea for women." One of the reasons for Pu-erh tea's great popularity is its health benefits.
According to research, tea was introduced to Tibet during the Tubo Regime. Living at an altitude above 3,000m.
Tibetans lead a nomadic life, subsisting on beef, roasted qingke barley flour and highland barley, with very little vegetable and fruit. Tea with rich vitamins helps break down excessive fat in the human body. The importance of tea is evident in such Tibetan sayings as "Man can live without food for three days but can't live even one day without tea,""One day without tea gives man loose bowels and three days without tea makes him sick," and "Tea is blood! Tea is meat! Tea is life!" Buttered tea made from dark tea liquid helps Tibetans endure the tough environment on the plateau. In other words, buttered tea are complete meals for them.
Tea is not only indispensable to Tibetans, but also suitable for the modern city people who enjoy Pu-erh tea benefits for regulating body fat and digestion.

Pu-erh Tea As A Daily Drink

Brew Pu-erh tea in glass tea cups and experience the visual delight of the changing hues of the tea liquid-from bright, ruby red to old wine red to amber to agate red. Taste its mellowness that lingers on the tip of your tongue. At first sip, it is bitter but the second sip tastes sweet. Feel your fatigue and tiredness melt away.
When time is short, and when you do not have enough time to get together the purple-clay teapot, the fairness cup. the strainer and porcelain cups, just sit at your office desk and make a cup of instant tea; your mind will clear and the nerves relax. The paraphernalia is not important; what is more important is the tea!
Modern inventions have given us more options to make life simpler. You may choose a porcelain or purple-clay teapot with an inner container. The best inner container can be glass or transparent nontoxic plastic cups, both of which can be sealed. Press the button on the inner container to get tea. It functions like the teapot and you have a cup of strong red Pu-erh tea within minutes. Simple and trendy!

Baked Tea

Ethnic groups in the Pu-erh tea-producing areas usually use local earthen jars to bake sun-baked green crude tea till it acquires a scorched fragrance before brewing it.
The baked tea is the most popular drink. Given its rich fragrance and strong taste, baked tea is suitable for people who like strong tea.

Pre-brewing preparations
Tea ware: Stove, boiling kettle, baking jar. tea funnel, teaspoon.
Water: Fill sufficient water in the electric tea kettle and bring it to boil.
Tea leaves: Loose Pu-erh tea (raw tea).

Brewing
1. Baking jar: Light the stove and place the jar on the fire. Let it heat.
2. Place the tea funnel: Place the tea funnel on the jar. Take care not to get burned.
3. Adding tea leaves: Add the sun-¬baked green crude tea into the baking jar.
4. Bake the tea: Light the stove. Shake the jar periodically. Stop when you smell the burnt fragrance.
5. Pour water: Place the jar on the kettle stand and pour boiling.
6. Wait a while: You will hear a crackling sound in the jar and see the leaves stir in the jar.
7. Pour the tea liquid: Distribute the tea liquid into the tea cups with lids.
8. Appreciate the tea: Baked tea is strong and bitter but has a lingering sweet aftertaste.