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Sticky Rice Dumpling (Zongzi) Swapping & Dragon Boat Festival

teasenz — Sun, 01 Jun 2014 10:58:46 +0000

With a history of about 2000 years, the Dragon Boat Festival is almost as old as Chinese tea. Many traditional activities are held during this holiday, such as dragon boat racing and eating ‘Zongzi’; a type of steamed Rice Dumpling wrapped in bamboo leaves. The latter custom actually has a lot in common with tea customs! Today’s fast-paced lifestyle doesn’t always allow us to time our time to cook something nice at home, or make ourselves a cup of tea. Fortunately this is not the cause during the Dragon Boat Festival (Also known as Duanwu Festival) as families take their time to wrap their rice dumplings filled with a blend of different ingredients such as pork meat, peanuts, corn, egg etc. The varieties of sticky rice dumplings that people can come up with is probably as diverse […]

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What is the Best Cheese to go with a Cup of Longjing Tea?

teasenz — Thu, 27 Mar 2014 02:12:42 +0000

Longjing tea and cheese? Always difficult and I don’t think there are many tea lovers in China who dare to try to pair them. When you go to a tea house in China they might serve some side dishes such as nuts or dried fruits, but you won’t get anything more adventurous. Even though, most of the Teasenz team likes to drink their tea without anything, we regularly receive questions from our customers about pairings. And when it comes to cheese, we simply don’t have an answer. We asked Formaggiokitchen what they think the best options are and we got an surprisingly detailed answer that deserved to be shared. Good question! I always find tea and cheese pairings a bit difficult, especially with Chinese teas like Longjing since there isn’t really any cheese in Chinese […]

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