Taiping Houkui Monkey King Tea Good Quality Green Tea Chinese

About Tai Ping Hou Kui tea (monkey king tea):
Taiping Hou Kui tea is produced in Anhui's Hou Keng Village, Tai Ping County, in Anhui Province, China. The name 'Hou Kui Tea' is a combination of both its maker and producing area. In 1915, Taiping Hou Kui won a gold medal at the Panamanian World's Fair. After the founding of new China, in 1955, Taiping Hou Kui was chosen as one of China's top ten most famous green teas in China, but everything from the look of the leaves to the packing style differs greatly from the norm.

The absolute highest grades of Tai Ping Hou Kui will feature leaves that exceed 15cm in length and are picked in perfectly identical sizes and bound together with cotton string. Another hallmark feature of Tai Ping Hou Kui is the grid pattern visible on each leaf that comes from the pressing during production; something that is always done by hand, not machine.

Tai Ping Hou Kui Peaceful Monkey King is a famous green tea grown at the foot of the Huangshan mountain range. Large, flat, and long green leaves produce a pale green liquor with a slight vegetal aroma. The taste is mellow, vegetal, and floral with a sweet aftertaste and no astringency.

Origin: Yellow Mountain (Huang Shan), Anhui Province, China

Tea Varieties: Chinese Green Tea—Taiping Houkui Green Tea（2024 Spring）

Tea Soup: bright green

Tea shape: The dried tea leaves are bright green, flat and straight, naturally stretched, and slightly white. After brewing, the tea leaves are tender green, plump, bright yellow-green, and intact.

Taste Features: The first soup is green in color, accompanied by the fragrance of orchid, and has a mellow taste that lasts for a long time. After drinking it, your mouth will be filling with the exceptional lingering aroma charm. 

Health benefits: Taiping Houkui tea has pharmacological effects such as refreshing and clearing the heart, clearing heat and relieving heat, eliminating food and phlegm, removing greasy and losing weight, clearing the mind and removing annoyance, detoxifying and hangover, relieving thirst, relieving thirst, and reducing fire and improving eyesight.

Storage:
Protect against the tide, peculiar smell, keeps in low temperature and refrigerates it.

Brewing suggestions：
glass cup brewing method:1. Recommended glass cup to view tea buds displaying in the cup.
2. Take about 3g tea to be brewed with hot water (80℃-90℃≈185-194℉);
3. steep within 1mn
4. It can be brewed by several times, leave 1/3 tea inside glass and continue to add water.
5. Water temperature cannot exceed 85℃, otherwise, tea water may turn to yellow.

Gaiwan/teapot brewing method:                                                                                        

1. Tea to water ratio: 1:50                                    

2. Hot water (80℃-90℃≈185-194℉)                               

3. Steep time within 15s 

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