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Tea Notes

Welcome to our Tea Journal where we share our inspiration and regularly publish editorial with guides to tea and its origins, as well as tea pairings and recipes.

Beginners Guide

Tea Education

The Best China Teas: A Guide to Popular Varieties and Their Benefits

China has been growing and drinking tea for thousands of years, and that history shows in the sheer variety available today. From light, floral whites to deep, earthy Pu-erh, Chinese tea covers more ground than almost any other beverage category in the world. If you've been curious about where to start or want to understand what separates one type from another, this guide covers everything you need to know.

Bai Hao Yin Zhen in the UAE

China's Most Prized White Tea

Prized White Tea

Bai Hao Yin Zhen in the UAE: China's Most Prized White Tea

Bai Hao Yin Zhen is a name that comes up every time someone serious about Chinese tea starts talking about white tea.

Tie Guan Yin in the UAE

Everything You Need to Know About Iron Goddess Oolong Tea

Few teas in the world carry a name with as much weight as Tie Guan Yin. Among China's ten most famous teas, among the top three oolongs globally, and the single variety most non-Chinese drinkers encounter first when exploring the world of proper oolong, it has a reputation built over centuries and earned honestly.

Premium White Tea in Dubai

Premium White Tea

White Tea in Dubai A Buyer's Guide

Premium White Tea in Dubai: A Buyer's Guide

Dubai has always had an appetite for quality, and the city's specialty tea market has quietly grown to reflect that. Where a few years ago finding genuine loose-leaf Chinese white tea meant knowing exactly who to call, today there are real options: specialist importers, online stores with UAE delivery, and a small but growing community of tea drinkers who take sourcing seriously. Premium white tea sits at the top of that world, and if you have been curious about what separates a truly exceptional white tea from an average one, this guide covers everything you need to know before you buy.

Oolong Tea

Tea Education

Best Chinese Oolong Tea in Dubai: For Tea Lovers in the UAE

Dubai is a city that takes quality seriously, and that same standard has quietly extended into the world of specialty tea. Over the last several years, a growing number of tea lovers in the UAE have moved past generic teabags and started exploring what genuine Chinese oolong actually tastes like.

Brewing Guides

Tea Education

What Is Gongfu Brewing, and Do You Need It?

Gongfu brewing is a Chinese method of making tea using a small vessel, a lot of leaf, and short steeps repeated multiple times. The same leaves can go eight to ten rounds, and each one tastes a little different. Here's how it works and how to try it at home.

Loose leaf green tea in the UAE

Loose leaf green tea

Loose leaf green tea in the UAE

Most people in the UAE who drink green tea daily have only ever had it from a teabag.

Tea Education

Beginner's Guide

6 Types of Tea in Chinese Tradition: A Complete Guide

Every single type of traditional Chinese tea, no matter how exotic it sounds, comes from the exact same plant: Camellia sinensis. What separates a delicate white tea from a bold, earthy Pu-erh isn't where the plant grows.

Aged White Tea

White Tea

Chinese Tea

Fuding

Dubai

Aged White Tea in Dubai: What It Is, How It Transforms, and Why Collectors Are Paying Attention

Aged white tea is one of the few teas that genuinely improves with age. This guide covers how it transforms over the years, what it tastes like at each stage, which grades age best, how to store it, and where to find authentic Fuding aged white tea in Dubai.

Silver Needle tea

Silver Needle Tea in the UAE: A Complete Guide

There is a moment when you pour hot water over Silver Needle tea and watch what happens.

Rare yellow tea in the UAE

yellow tea

tea world dubai

uae tea world

Rare yellow tea in the UAE

Yellow tea is the category most tea drinkers have heard of but never actually tasted. Sitting between green and white tea in the traditional Chinese six-category system, it is produced in only a handful of locations across China and made by so few skilled producers today that the category is genuinely at risk of disappearing.

Puerh Tea

Tea Education

Nannuo Mountain Puerh Tea: Everything You Need to Know

There are tea mountains in Yunnan, and then there is Nannuo Mountain. It occupies a different kind of place in the world of puerh tea, one that serious collectors and everyday tea drinkers keep coming back to, decade after decade. The teas from this mountain carry something that's hard to put into words until you've actually tasted one: a gentleness, a natural sweetness, and a depth that doesn't announce itself loudly but quietly stays with you long after the cup is empty.

Shoumei White Tea in Dubai

Shoumei is written as 寿眉 in Chinese. Shou means longevity, a word that carries significant cultural weight in Chinese tradition and is associated with health

Brewing Guides

Tea Education

How to Brew Chinese Tea Without Special Equipment

You don't need a gaiwan, a clay teapot, or a tea tray to brew Chinese tea properly. Two mugs and a strainer are enough to get started. Here's a simple method that works for any type of Chinese loose leaf tea.

Pingyang Tea in Dubai

Pingyang Tea

A Complete Guide to Pingyang Huangtang Yellow Tea

Most tea drinkers who encounter yellow tea for the first time have no idea what category they are holding.

Green Tea

Tea Education

Chinese Green Tea in Dubai: Best Varieties, & How to Brew It Right

Green tea has been part of Chinese daily life for thousands of years. It is drunk in the morning for clarity, after meals for digestion, and in quiet moments simply for the pleasure of it.