Tea Code: Live it till you love it

 

 

Tea Talk @ Shakeng Tea Club on 8/13/2016

Shakeng Tea Club organized by Norman Shu. A good opportunity for local tea professionals to meet regularly and also to have chance that everyone can cup and review various samples that brought by attendants.  Each meeting has set a theme, and will invite guest speaker to do the presentation. Not only for members to sharpen tea expertise together, also a networking to built around the tea trade.  The tea club's routine venue is at the historical and beautiful Shakeng Tea Manufactory in Henshan, Hsinchu, Taiwan.

 

I admire and salute to Norman and his team, and I know how much efforts they've put in this club. The set up and clean up before and after each event requires passionate love in our tea industry that carries on from the family.  My father, no doubt is the No.1 fan of this Shakeng Tea Club.

 

Original schedule is set to have its 20th meeting on 9/3/2016.  Since there are so many tea friends cannot make it to participate my afternoon workshop at Lantia1918, due to the limited capacity. Thus an additional 8/13 morning meet-up was proposed by a few members.  I am aware that Norman made his announcement on 8/11 and very soon registration filled up within such a short notice.
Here we are at the Shakeng Tea Club, and I am very honored to be invited to be the guest speaker for this "Special" meet-up.  I am also shocked that many of these friends are actually my facebook friends and we get to meet in person finally.  What a small world!  How I love this tea business! 

I have also led a cupping of 7 Taiwan Oolongs after my talk on "How to re-define Taiwan Tea and plan for its international marketing."
 
Please enjoy the photos of this special event.  (*Thanks to Yu-Hsiou, Jiun-Tsai, Mr. Shen-Ming Shen and Ms. Vivi Wen. the best volunteers!)

How does JT & Tea reach out to the community ?

Besides "Azusa Tea Club" to have tea friends to meet up once a month in our cupping room at Baldwin Park office, JT & Tea has dedicated our team to reach out for CommuniTea Service with our creative "Tea-One Tasting" workshops...seen in colleges, libraries, museums, churches, community centers, culture exhibitions...

Tea-One Tasting, a hands on tea study.  One step ahead to the basics, step by step to master each important criteria in making a perfect cup of tea...  Understand the theory, actual cupping to find out the Harmony Code (*the 3T: Amount of Tea, Right Temperature of heated water, Time for steeping) of each tea that to be enjoyed.

Maybe soon JT & Tea will have the honor to show up in your community gatherings or festivals...

Glad to share with you some of these events in the following link:

http://ponfoncha.blogspot.com/search/label/CommuniTea%20Service

What is Azusa Tea Club ?

"Azusa Tea Club" is part of JT & Tea's CommuniTea Service. 

We try to offer this monthly tea meet up with our tea friends and sharing the tea fun and enjoy various tea tastings. 

Please see the past events we have in Azusa Tea Club from the following link:
www.ponfoncha.blogspot.com/search/label/Azusa%20Tea%20Club

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What about JT & Tea ?

We will begin to post about the Service and Products that offered by JT & Tea.  Sincerely hope our tea friends will get to know us more and continue to give us your best support, as always. 

What is JT & Tea ? Yes, it is Josephine, Thomas and a solid team that committed to bring the best Taiwan Oolongs to our tea lovers. 

We have kept most of our efforts in the documentary blogs -  
www.PonFonCha.blogspot.com   and  
www.TaiwanTeaTour.blogspot.com.     

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2014 World Tea Expo - JT & Tea