Taiwan Tea Odyssey

Tales of drinking tea in Taiwan

May 2023

  • The perils of online tea shopping

    This tea was supposedly a 1997 Xiaguan tuocha. Which is a bit older than the Xiaguan teas you typically run into. It was fairly cheap and was easy to throw in my online shopping cart one evening. I didn’t give it much thought. The first clue that something was amiss should’ve been the price. A… Continue reading

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  • Tea sampling in Maokong

    Maokong is a small hillside neighborhood in the outskirts of Taipei, part of the broader Muzha region. It’s well known for its tea plantations and the many teahouses you can visit for lunch/dinner. It’s also really fun to get there, because you take a cable car (called the Maokong Gondola) up over the hills with… Continue reading

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  • Six Door Tea

    There are teahouses all around Taiwan. Some big, some small, some good, some pretty mediocre. Some justifiably well known, plenty of others you just have to stumble upon. One of my favorites is Six Door Tea (六扇門) in Pingxi (平溪), which is a charming little river town to the east of Taipei. I’ve been out… Continue reading

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  • Shopping for tea in Pinglin

    Last week, my wife and I drove to Pinglin (坪林), a small rural town half an hour southeast of Taipei City, in hot pursuit of nesting herons that she wanted to film. Knowing that it was also spring harvest time for tea, and that Pinglin is the heart of the baozhong growing region, I was… Continue reading

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