Oolong
What shape is oolong tea?
balled or stranded
What tea has the highest oxidation?
red tea
In what Chinese dynasty was whisking tea popular?
Song Dynasty
Name the six main types of Chinese teas.
White, Green, Oolong, Red, Sheng Puerh, Shou Puerh
What's my favorite type of tea?
Silver Needle or Keemun Green
What are tea jassids?
Aphids that bite the tea and suck out sap. The tea sends chemicals to the wound that add sweetness to the tea.
*Fun fact: researchers hypothesize that ants farm aphids
What two primary reactions create a "roast" flavor?
Maillard's Reaction, Carmelization
Who was the Buddhist monk who brought tea to Japan?
Eisai - 1191, brought tea seeds and the powdered style preparation method
What is Mao Cha?
"rough tea," green tea that has been inoculated with microbes
Name one important and dead figure from darye.
Dasan Jeong Yak Yong
Cho Ui Uiseon
Chusa Kim Jeong Hui
Hyodang Choi Beom Sui
Go through the processing of Oolong
1) Picking
2) Withering
3) Bruising/Shaping
4) Initial/Denaturing Roast
5) Body Roast (optional)
6) Finishing Roast
Describe why the caffeine in tea has a different effect than caffeine in coffee?
Unlike in coffee, the caffeine in tea is bound to polyphenol compounds, so it has to be enzymatically cleaved before it can cross the blood-brain barrier. Thus, there is more of a gradual effect, not a crash.
Who is the current head of the Panyaro Institute for the Way of Tea?
Chae Won Hwa
What is Sha Qing? What does it do to tea? What tea go through it?
Bruised leaves are fired in a very hot wok. It denatures PPO and stops oxidation. Green Tea, Sheng and Shou Puerh.
What are the three main schools of Chanoyu?
Omotesenke, Urasenke, Mushakojisenke
What elevation must a tea be to be considered high mountain?
over 1000m
What is oxidation? What starts and stops it?
When polyphenol oxidase interacts with oxygen. Starts occurring naturally when tea is picked, sped up by bruising. Stopped by Sha Qing or roasting.
What tea ceremony did Sen Rikyuu practice? Why was he important to that ceremony?
Practiced Chanoyu, made significant contributions including embracing wabi aesthetic, reduced the size of the tearoom, created the crawl-in entrance, did not use shelves in the ceremony
Sheng Puerh processing
1) Picking
2) Withering
3) Sha Qing
4) Inoculation
5) Bagged & Steamed
6) compressed into cakes
7) dried/storage
What are the three levels of aesthetics in gongfu tea?
2) structural functional
3) phenomenological
Name three types of body roasting and give a bit of information on each.
1) electric - easiest, cheapest, most common
2) charcoal - traditional, distinct flavor
3) fruitwood - typically most flavorful and hardest
Name four cultivars of tea.
Name two extra for 100 extra points.
Jin Xuan (milky oolong)
Sijichun (four seasons)
Qinxin (soft stem)
Tsui Yu (kingfisher jade)
daye (big leaf)
Teiguanyin
Code 209
Bai Ji Guan
What are the two stories about the origins of tea?
1) Emperor Shen Nong, the second mythical emperor, meditating under tea tree drinking hot water. Tea leave fell in bowl, kept him awake and cured poisons
2) Bodhidharma, monk who brought Buddhism to China, fell asleep while meditating in a cave. Tore his eyelids off in anger and throw them on the ground. Tea plant grew where the lids fell and the leaves helped him stay awake.
Name one extra shape for 100 extra points
disks, bricks, bird's nest, loose leaf, single dose, in a citrus peel
What are the hours that the teahouse is open to the public?
Whats the tea of the month for 100 extra points?
Mangfei loose leaf shou puerh