Western-style tea

Author: Lan Yongqiang
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Publish Date: 2005-04-01
Features: This book introduces famous Western milk tea, flower tea, fruit tea, and iced tea through illustrations, covering material combinations, brewing methods, operational processes, and making techniques. The entire book is guided by professional technicians, making it easy to understand and learn. It tells readers: Tea drinking can be fashionable. Tea is ready, flowers are fragrant, admire the beauty, come or not? China is the homeland of the Tea Sage Lu Yu and the birthplace of the tea ceremony. Tea culture embodies the essence of 5,000 years of Chinese civilization and has become a noble and healthy lifestyle, passed down through generations and spreading overseas. Today, tea drinking has become a fashionable way for the middle-class to relax and entertain. As everyone knows, there are many varieties of tea that can be used for drinking. Human dietary habits have undergone five transformations: frying, boiling, pickling, soaking, and stewing. Among them, tea drinking by brewing is the most important method to this day. Unlike other tea culture books on tea ceremony and tea art, the editor strives to refresh traditional tea culture, aiming to advocate a new fashionable tea drinking lifestyle and thereby improve the quality of our lives. The book draws inspiration from the different tea tasting methods of over 100 countries and regions around the world, innovating many creative brewing and pairing techniques. It systematically introduces the characteristics of fashionable Western tea culture, as well as the making and drinking methods of various hot teas, iced teas, and tea snacks. The text is concise, the illustrations are exquisite, and the book is highly practical. The various fashionable teas and tea snacks recommended in the book are both scientific and professional, yet accessible and versatile, suitable for both commercial and home use. The book illustrates in detail the brewing methods, operational processes, material combinations, and making techniques of various unique milk teas, flower teas, fruit teas, and iced teas, making it simple, clear, and easy to learn. After reading this book, we realize: Tea drinking can be so fashionable. Tea is ready, flowers are fragrant, admire the beauty, come or not?