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Matthew Stedman

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The Black Sheep

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The bad news is that you’re possibly going to be confused at some point here. The good news is that, at the end of this Strainer, you’re going to know about a really cheap, great Chinese tea. Ask anyone...
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Is that an Onion in My Cup? The Longest Tea Leaf in the World

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In last month’s Strainer, I wrote to you from Wales. Well, I’m back from Wales. But I’m not quite done with the Welsh theme yet. That’s because, you see, this is the month of St. David’s Day; 1 March, precisely. When St....
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Chasing Tea in Wales, the Other, not-so-Chinese Dragon

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Strainer is a Nanjing column. It is no accident that a tea enthusiast would choose the southern part of Jiangsu as a place to drink tea. Ours is a fine tea-growing and tea-consuming region, to say nothing of the...
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Like Broccoli, Love Tea; Hate Cabbage, Love Coffee!

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I have speculated in this very column whether it is correlated with a liking for cats or dogs. I have asked what Chinese teas/infusions I would recommend for a coffee lover to try; wheat tea (大麦茶) or burdock-root (牛蒡茶) tea....
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Sichuan Green, the Superior Tea?

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I wrote last month about glossy teas; teas with a polished appearance, mostly from Japan. I also mentioned a pea-green variety from Sichuan’s Emei mountain range called Bamboo Leaf Tea . Now, let’s be honest. Sichuan is less famous...
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Japanning; the Lustre of Shanghaied and/or Press Ganged

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Nanjing isn’t an English verb. It probably never will be. Like Darjeeling or Wyoming, our brains probably have to work hard to stop thinking of these proper nouns as verbs. That “ing” ending is a red herring we all know...
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The Precarity of Tea Town

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In the West, specialist sellers choose to distribute themselves evenly across the city, trying to become someone’s “local”. But, here in Asia, different sellers; direct competitors, often choose to huddle together in a street or market renowned throughout the city. Buying...
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Too Good to Drink?

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It’s much easier to get maple syrup these days. Canadian president Justin Trudeau just announced the construction of a new pipeline to export it to the rest of the world (…or was that another liquid commodity?) Anyway, when I was...
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About Me

Matthew Stedman has spent years living and working in China. He has sold Chinese tea in the UK, and loves discussing the miraculous leaf with new (and suspicious) audiences. He however never feels happier than when researching the product here in beautiful South China. Email him via matthew@thenanjinger.com Matthew Stedman在中国生活工作了多年。多年在 中英两国从事茶叶贸易的他，喜欢和新读者讨论神 奇的东方树叶(虽然有时他的读者保持怀疑态度)。 没什么比在美丽的江南走访品尝各种茶叶更让他开 心的事了。
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