When I brought out my blue tea set, he made some off-putting remark about the situation not requiring me to “break out my best china.” The tone of it was rude, and I was made to feel small ...

In China, the Gong Fu Cha method of brewing tea is considered the best way to extract flavours out of loose leaf teas and was once devised for low-quality teas (originally this only referred to ...

It ran 6,440 tea houses — 97 per cent of which are in China — at the end of last year, up 83 per cent on 2023, while net revenues rose 167.4 per cent year on year to just under $1.7bn. Net ...