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'Flowers' and 'Tea' do not seem to go together but the Chinese who love drinking tea and who are often inventive with their food, have produced tea that blooms into a flower as hot water is poured into it. Here's a picture from WIkipedia and a YouTube video clip from the movie Marie Antoinette by Sofia Coppola which shows the queen enjoying the flowering tea, a gift from the Emperor of China.
And finally, here are some illustrations from Emila Yusof's book, Grandma's Flowering Tea which will be published in early May 2018 by Oyez!Books. Emila was awarded the Little Hakka International Picture Book Competition Merit Award in 2017 for the illustrations in this book. The award was organised by the Shenzhen OCT Cultural Group and the Shenzhen Women's Federation under the auspices of the Shenzhen Culture, Sports and Tourism Bureau.
First, you select the tea leaves and flowers.
The leaves and flowers are dried under the sun.
Sew them into a ball.
Now you have many tea balls!
Drop one into hot water and watch it bloom. Isn't it divine?
Photo creadit:
Flowering Tea: By Georg Mittenecker - Photograph taken by Georg Mittenecker, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3337063
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Flowering tea, also known as blooming tea, is a handcrafted bundle of white and green tea leaves. They usually come crumpled artistically into clusters. You then place the clumps in hot water, which gets them to unfurl their leaves beautifully. The drinker is stimulated by not only the delicious taste of the tea but its aesthetics as well. 16/8/2022 04:55:40 am
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