If you purchase this product you will earn Tai Ping Hou Kui Green Tea harvested from Hou Keng Village
Tai Ping Hou Kui, translated as Tai Ping Monkey King, is one of the 10 most famous Chinese Tea, with the longest and largest sized tea leaves among all kinds of green teas. Its name “Tai Ping” literally refers to its place of origin – Hou Keng Village, Tai Ping country, which is situated in Huang Shan of Anhui; and “Hou Kui” means “Monkey King”, as there is an old legend saying the tea is picked by Monkey in the “Monkey Pit”.
Largest sized tea leaves among all kinds of green teas
The tea is made of grown leaves instead of young buds and leaves, thus it is usually being harvested in late spring – after middle of April and the harvest period only last within 15-20 days. The tea leaves is very long, flat, straight, and sharp at two ends, with 5-7cm.
How it taste like?
It taste refreshing and elegant with orchid and light nutty notes, with sweet and long-lasting aftertaste. As it is made of mature leaves, it is relatively strong in taste and light in grassiness when comparing with other green tea, but it never show astringency at all, it can be re-steep for many times.
What is the Making Process of Tai Ping Hou Kui?
The hand-making process is very complex and time-consuming, after plucking the tea buds with 3-4 leaves, tea maker will need to extract only one bud with 2 leaves, and discard the extra leaves, leaving the stem with around 1cm long; It was then being lightly withered for losing some water content, and then being wok-fired for green-killing. After the step of kill-green, each tea leaves is then being evenly placed one by one on a wooden squared net grid, and being hand-pressed on the grid for shaping. The pressed tea leaves are then being baked several times.
What is the differences between Handmade and Machine-made Tai Ping Hou Kui?
The genuine handmade Hou Kui will have some remarkable grid pattern visible on the tea leaves, whereas the hou Kui made and pressed by machine will not have those grid pattern and is relatively thinner and lighter.
How to brew Tai Ping Hou Kui?
For brewing the Tea, we recommend to use a tall glass, every tea leaves will float vertically.
Glass Style: prepare a tall glass, pre-warm the glass by rinsing it, fill your glass with 80-85°c water, add tea leaves (3g), let it rest for 1 minute, enjoy (Don’t drink the whole glass, left 1/3 of Tea liquor in the glass for resteeping, add 30’s each time)
Weight per pack: 50g
Tea Farm Location: Hou Keng, Huang Shan, Anhui
Harvest Time: Spring 2023/2021
Varietal: Shi Da Cha Big Leaf Varietal
Tasting Notes: Strong in taste, refreshing, orchid fragrance, floral notes , light nutty notes
Dry Leaves Appearance: Large, long, flat, Dark Green
Tea Liquor Colour: Bright and clear light yellow-green
