Cha

The reason we've been visiting Taiwan often is to purchase the cha. "Cha" is the tea which especcially made in China (and Japan). It's perfectly different from the tea sipped in Wenstern. Cha is more flavouful and sweet without sugar.

We love Taiwanese cha. Ping-ling, where is a majour production area of Taiwanese tea located near Taipei, produces the cha we like best. Ping-ling's cha is called "When-Shan Baochung". It is half fermented, so it remains flesh but isn't harsh.



Although Ping-ling is so small town, there are a lot of tea shops. They were holding a festival when we visited. Our favourite shop seemed to have got the second prize in the competition. We tasted his cha and couldn't resist to buy it.



Ping-ling has a musium on the Taiwanese cha. We went to the musium at the first time, because it was closed at our previous visit. It's unexpectedly beneficial and enlightened.