Tea from China

Tea culture is everywhere in China. I used to drink jasmine flower tea before I went to the United States. When I took my family back to China after ten plus years, my hometown folks were drinking Iron Budda of Oolong tea, a partially fermented tea. Last time when we visited China again, my fellows are now drinking red tea, a fully fermented tea.

We also got the chance to drink one kind of herbal tea in Laoshan of Qingdao, Shandong Province, the place where the best Chinese beer is brewed. It is a plant picking from Laoshan and I bet it is organic. Guess what is it? Leave your guess in the comment, and I will let you know after I do some research on this.

Happy Moon Festival

Today, September 22 of 2010, is the fifteenth of August in Chinese lunar calendar, the Moon Festival, also called the Mid-Autumn Festival.

The Moon Festival is the second most important day next to the Spring Festival in China. People have a bounty harvest dinner as a whole family and eat moon cakes as dessert wishing for sweet fulfilled future.

A lot of activities fun for everyone follow the dinner at night, such as moongazing, singing, dancing, and drinking. People in Xiamen, Fujian Province play a unique game called Bo2 Bing3 (博饼), gambling for cakes.