Mooncake and Tea Pairing Guide
🥮 Snowskin Mooncake
🍵 Jasmine-scented Green Tea
With a full body, robust fragrance, and floral sweetness of jasmine flowers, this tea is easy to drink and pairs well with snowskin mooncakes that have intensely sweet fillings.
🥮 Salted Egg Yolk Lava Mooncake
🍵 Oriental Beauty Oolong
The slightly fermented aroma and smooth aftertaste of our Oriental Beauty are great for cutting through the richness of Hong Kong-style salted egg yolk lava mooncakes or any cakes with a creamy custard filling.
🥮 Mix Nuts & Ham Mooncake
🍵 Ban Lien Black Shan Tea
Black tea is an ideal option to serve with mixed nuts & ham baked mooncakes (bánh thập cẩm). Hints of spice, as well as the smooth, clean aftertaste, help maintain the balance against the sweet and savory elements in the mooncakes.
🥮 Traditional Baked Lotus / Bean Paste Mooncake
🍵 Dragon’s Tail White Tea
Our Dragon’s Tail carries such complex floral notes, subtly sweet, great mouthfeel, but a tingling fruity aftertaste at the back of your throat. Compared to traditional green and black teas, it delivers a lighter taste that mellows out the excessive sweetness from baked lotus and red beans paste mooncakes.
ABOUT THIS PRODUCT
"You know it when you see it", the mere sight of this tea indicates how special it is. "Dragon's Tails" is a spectacular white tea procured from the Tay Con Linh mountain range in the depths of Ha Giang province. Tea pickers have to climb the mountain the day before next day's dawn to cut back on time, the tea would go through the first stage of fermentation on the backs of tea pickers returning home. This tea is the gnarly product of Ha Giang's ancient teas; the trees are so old that there is moss and vines growing from them. As such, this white tea has an interesting bite, still subtly sweet, great mouthfeel, but a tingling fruity aftertaste at back of your throat. For the experimental drinkers, try a cold brew of this tea, it's very interesting.
DETAILS
Tea type: White tea
Scent: Flower
Harvesting: Bud
Taste: Sweet
Origin: Chiêu Lầu Thi, Hà Giang, Hoàng Su Phì
BREWING GUIDE
Quantity: 4g
Tempurature: 90C degrees
Water: 120ml
Duration: 5 minutes
Ban Bo, Tam Duong, Lai Chau
No tea speaks the Tam Duong region more than “Oriental Beauty”. The buildup of micronutrients in Lai Chau province is perfect for the growth of Jin Xuan tea tree variety, making the brew sweeter and smoother. The secret to this tea is the introduction of green leafhoppers before picking, which provokes the tree’s natural defenses, releasing compounds that create Oriental Beauty’s addicting taste: honeyed, caramel, with hints of straw and hay.
It’s best not to overbrew. Instead, steep each batch for 2 to 3 times. The color of the brew is a good indicator if you can’t get the correct timing and temperature, and it’s beautiful to look at to boot! Especially if you have glassware. There will be greater depth of flavor and scent when you let the tea cool down a few minutes.
INGREDIENTS
100% Jin Xuan Tea
TEA INFO
40-year-old tea plant
Harvested at the height of 1200masl
1 bud 1 leaf
INSTRUCTION
Tea: 4g
Water: 120ml
Temp: 95C
Duration: 1 min
Ban Lien, Bac Ha, Lao Cai
The first few years, before the factory is fully built, it would take hours by walk to get to Ban Lien, now this remote commune’s tea can reach your hand. On the hilltops, tea trees grow unplanned and undisturbed aside from the occasional pruning.
From these high mountain forest tea trees is “Red Shan” created. Fermenting to almost, but not quite, black, this red is addicting. Underneath the sweetness are deep flavors imparted from forest high mountain teas of the Shan cultivar, a result of Ban Lien’s elevation at 900 meters above sea level. A classic red with something more, please enjoy.
Ingredients
100% Ancient Shan Snow Tea
Tea info
100- to 200-year-old tea plant
Harvested at the height of 1100 masl
1 bud 2 leaves
Instruction
Tea: 4g
Water: 120ml
Temp: 85C
Duration: 1 min
Ban Lien, Bac Ha, Lao Cai
One of the easiest green tea to drink, primarily because of the jasmine, of course. Yet, not many know of the labor intensity with which goes into every kilogram for Ban Lien jasmine-scented tea.
The base tea is organic Ban Lien dried green, but even the flowers have to be organic or near organic as well so as to prevent contamination. Jasmine has to be picked in the early morning, or the middle of the day, while the flowers are still buds. Tea and jasmine is then put into layers by hand, allowing dried tea to naturally absorb the scent and oils released by the blooming flowers.
The tea is then separated from the flower, and might need more rounds of scenting. A long process for a cup of jasmine tea.
Ingredients
95% Ancient Shan Snow Tea
5% Jasmine
Tea info
100- to 200-year-old tea plant
Harvested at the height of 1100 masl
1 bud 2 leaves
Instruction (1 serving)
Tea: 4g
Water: 120ml
Temp: 80C
Duration: 1min
