Older people in Yunnan can still remember the days when merchants with mules plied the Tea Horse Road: the last few caravans ...

Every graceful movement in preparing and serving the tea holds deep symbolic meaning. In China, tea houses buzz with activity as friends gather over oolong or pu-erh tea, often accompanied by dim sum.

Rebecca Roland is an editor of the Southern California/Southwest region, who covers the evolving landscape of Los Angeles’s ...

He has always wanted to travel to the epicentre of China’s Pu’er tea culture in Yunnan province, to stroll leisurely in the expansive tea gardens and stay at least a night in one of the the ...

At the time, the cold drink was a refreshing update to conventional methods of serving tea, and it became a hit. Later, chewy tapioca balls – a traditional treat in Taiwan and other parts of ...

Pu’erh tea is kind of like champagne – it can only be grown in one region of the world Yunnan Province in Southwest China. Some of the tea trees can be over 1,000 years old. Pu’erh is ...

Explorer Jeff Fuchs travels to tea forests in China’s southern Yunnan province in search of a perfect cup of tea. Most of the world’s teas are grown on plantations on bushes arranged in ...

Tea in China was originally thought to be purely medicinal so it wasn’t until centuries later during the Tang dynasty (618 to 917 CE) that drinking tea became more widespread, although it was ...