Chinese tea set gift, Shi Shi Ru Yi, Black, Green, and Oolong Teas.

 A high school friend has in laws that live in China.  He said that they got this as a Christmas gift and knew that they would never really enjoy it....but they knew I would.

What an incredible gift!!!



This set has a teapot, 4 teacups, 10 teas.  There were the tins of tea and then more in a cardboard sleeve.





What a great teapot so fun and tiny for tastings!


My nephew was helping me out...googling translating what some of the teas might actually be called.
In the red sleeve below on the right was more tea.



There were some teas I was familiar with- like cinnamon and jasmine.  Then there were other teas I had no idea what they were - like Biluochun and Tieguanyin.
I can't wait to try them and discover some new tea notes.






I did a google photo search and was able to find out some of the information about the tea as well.


I decided to try some teas while watching the Ohio State football.  O-H!

I heated the water for a green tea (185 degrees) and then used a fun stand with a candle to keep it warm.


These are beautiful long wiry, twisted tea leaves.  See below what they look like after they are steeped.


I steeped the western way- a scoop of tea per 8oz of water and steep for 3 minutes for a green tea.

Eastern steeping would have been a lot more tea, hotter water and steeping of just seconds.


My friend gave me this tea pitcher with stand.  Her parents received it as a 60th wedding anniversary present at least 40 years ago.

It is so fun to serve from.  There is also a matching creamer and sugar to go with it.



I poured all 4 cups for myself, each cup was about a sip.


I wish I appreciated the subtle notes in tea more  These Chinese teas are so fun and unique, but I think the subtle notes are lost on me.  I get the green tea notes but struggle to find other notes other than grass.  I need to work on taste testing more teas like this to prefect my palette.   However, I love this tea set and all the fun teas.  This was an incredible gift and I will for sure keep trying the teas and using the tea set.


The leaves after steeping.  I love that you can see the entire leaf.





 

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