Thank you SO much! My dream is to be a documentarian or video journalist so hope this is just a step on the way! Really appreciate the kind words and motivation!
@@BlondieinChina But actually though... this is the first video of yours I've seen, and it's really, really impressive!! I was waiting for there to be some point where it was lacking in knowledge or respect, or quality, (like plenty of other channels) but that never happened! Good job ^_^
@@BlondieinChina If I didn't know better, I would think I was watching the BBC. You did an awesome job on this. I hope Scott at Yunnan Sourcing and James and Denny of TeaDB see this. I saw where Don from Mei Leaf already commented and agree with him 100%. So well produced and you have such great energy on screen. I wish you the best and have every expectation that you will have many, many subscribers as more discover your excellent content.
As a tea channel which has done a lot of filming in Yunnan and about PuErh, I wanted to reach out and say that I really appreciate the level of work that went into this one and your approach tio the subject matter. I predict big things for your channel and will follow along.
Ahaha I loved the italian man part since Im italian as well. I definitely want to try both the tea and coffee T.T cant wait to come to china! Awesome video also, very informative and interesting.
This is undoubtedly one of the better documentaries on Pu'er tea. I love both Pu'er tea and coffee. I have tried a few other Chinese tea, but my personal favourite is still Pu'er. Greeting from Malaysia!
I seem to be one year late with these videos, but I love it! I had no idea how life in China is and your videos really gives an insight into it. As someone living in Europe I rarely hear anything positive about the country. This is really refreshing to see! Really something needed during these weird times we now live in :) As for coffee Vs tea I think they will always live side by side. As someone who has spent the past years trying to understand coffee, getting good quality tea and some basics of tea was really natural. Altough this video really shows that there is a lot I need to learn about tea xD
Another informative vlog from a very beautiful lady , compare, coffee from west and tea from east ,hoping someday west and east can really have a harmonious relationship ,no envy , no war ,no defamatory remarks only love and peace !
I agree that tea is not going anywhere anytime soon. Actually, tea culture has grown exponentially here in Mexico City since the 90's. Which is great, cos I love tea. I do think however that it's kind of sad that some people seem to regard tea as boring, old-fashioned, not hip enough or even bland. It is just generally underappreciated, and tea has so much to offer. To me tea trains you to appreciate subtlety, delicate aromas and fine tones. I like coffee too, but for me, tea is always gonna be my poison.
This really exemplifies Chinese culture and China, where old and new, traditional and modern, and the young and the old, can all coexist in harmony and with mutual respect. You have brought this out beautifully through your videos and are are doing such a great job. Thank you so much!
Love your video. I stay in Kunming, Yunnan, and I love both tea and coffee. I studied tea in a tea expert school(like a training small class that you can get in Kunming), I can definitely tell and admire the Puer tea now, it's more about a kind of attitude for life, you can tell the different layers of flavour (the tea go through your throat, you can feel it in your tongue, your teeth, the entire mouth, and finally your whole body, in my opinion, these feelings need to be trained. Because I can't feel it in that way till trained.) and I drink it everyday. Good for keeping the body shape, and keep the mind clear like the coffee does. If you buy good quality like 老班章laobanzhang, or 冰岛Bingdao, It's expensive, and I choose like 贺开Hekai, 帕莎Pasha, less expensive, about 1200RMB for1 kilo. And I love it, you can buy like RMB300 in bulk, and drink already a long time, strong tea is only for taste not good for body, so light tea need less tea leaves. Remember to take care of the tea leaves, broken tea leaf can add bitter and astrictive taste to that. I also love coffee, after having all that good espresso in Rome, so I got a good coffee machine, My coffee bean was from BaoShan, Yunnan, very good quality, very fresh and cheap(1kilo about RMB 70，can be bought in Taobao.) Coffee for the morning, and a tea cup with me for work. so nice.
Can you do a video on Kaiping, Taishan, Enping? Most immigrants that left China in the 80's to early 2000 for Australia, Canada and USA came from this area.
This is so great! I loved this video I'm from china and my dad is a tea expert and me and him would sit down every day and drink Pu'er tea and read a talk and keep posting!
Hi I'm from 昆明 and I've done some tea-trip guide here, glad to see your video and I just learn that Yunnan produces so much coffee!! Thank you so much for sharing this
Hi. Great video, thank you 🙏 Few things just for your information, PuErh is named after City of PuErh not other way around, it have been changed to city of Simao at some point but with PuErh growing popularity they came back to it’s original name. Also PuErh is as much big leaf variety (camellia sinensis assamica) as processing and terroir (must be coming from Yunnan), so technically you can make any kind of tea from it, thus PuErh doesn’t just grow, it’s made into PuErh. Looking forward to more of your videos 👌
Hm, I found this information: "The city, famous for Pu'er tea growing for hundreds of years, was first granted the Pu'er name in 1729 when the Qing government established an administrative region there." "The raw pu-erh tea was invented and introduced during the dynasty of Ming, about 700-800 years ago" So it seems to me that you are wrong saying that the tea was named after the city. Unless you can provide some other information.
A. P. V. Hi. Thanks for reading my comment :) Google “origins of PuErh” and read what specialized blogs / shops have to say about it. “Pu-erh tea is named after a town called Pu-erh located in central Yunnan. Pu-erh did not produce tea; rather, it was a trading post where all teas produced from the nearby tea mountains were sold and traded. For easy transport, teas were compressed into cakes or bricks and transported to different parts of China and Asia by horse caravan. Later, all teas traded in this town came to be known as Pu-erh tea” Source www.banateacompany.com/pages/puerh_history.html Another: sevencups.com/learn-about-tea/puer-tea/ I’ve read about it in one of my books about tea, I also think it was mentioned in GTH magazine. Hope that helps :)
A. P. V. Found GTH article “The Name "Puerh" The word "puerh" really doesn't refer to a kind of tea. It was once a city within the Yunnan region of China. In 1950, after the Communist Revolution, the city was renamed "Simao". Then, in 2007, after a tidal wave of puerh madness and popularity, the local government made the decision to call the city by its original name, so it is now once again called "Puerh", as is the province. Traditionally, Puerh was the market center where all the tea grown in the region was brought to be traded and/or sold. Later, all the tea from Yunnan came to be known as "Puerh Cha (普洱茶)" or "Tea from Puerh"...” Source archive.globalteahut.org/article/427
A. P. V. I’ve said no such thing you just jumped to conclusion. Traditionally PuErh was I believe just called Hei Cha, commonly translated as dark tea (due to PuErh used to be drank only after aging). Most famous variety of Hei Cha category is Pu-erh, named after the trading post (PuErh city) for dark tea during imperial China. I’m not sure about what year PuErh city have been established and I would take information from wiki with grain of salt. As for history of PuErh tea, it can be traced back to Eastern Han Dynasty (25-220 CE) according to some sources. Is that settles it ?
I used to live in Kunming. I love that place! I’m a little strange because I actually add my pu’er tea with my espresso. You should try it as well. It’s a harmonious infusion. 😊
It's called 鴦鴛 in Hong Kong, original a kind of bird name (usually appears as a pair of couples) but use it to resemble the mix of coffee and red tea. Many people in HK like it.
@@akakakakakak3084 How do you make it? Do you just mix equal parts of coffee and tea (and any particular kind of tea?), or is it more complicated? (And is it normally sweetened?)
@@AbsentWithoutLeaving The mixing ratio is very subjective, but mostly is 50/50. However, the red tea is also mixed in different types in the restaurants with their own secret formula, so the tastes are different from restaurants too. So people have to try to get their most favourite.
Love the video. I used to live in east China but never got to travel west. I'll probably pop over for a visit in the future. Even in tiny Weihai, there were maybe three Starbucks, as well as 10 or so Bread'N cafes, and a variety of different family-owned dessert cafes that served their own homebrewed coffees. The culture in China is definitely changing. It's ironic, though, that everyone equates coffee with being a mostly western drink. Yes, it is popular in Europe and the Americas. However, coffee trees have been growing in East Africa forever and it was the West Asian countries like Yemen and Turkey that made it into a drink first from what I've read. It's from the Arabic word قهوه "qahwah".
Hey. Greetings from a fellow-Australian! Great video. This is the first of your videos I have come across and was impressed. I am a huge fan of Chinese tea, especially Pu-erh and oolong. Just a little note: the city of Pu'er was not named after the tea but vice versa - the tea was named after the city. Interestingly, the city's name was changed to Simao in 1950 (during the Chinese Civil War) but in 2007 the city's name was changed back to Pu'er. I wish I could speak and understand the Chinese language as well as you do!
Bravo! This was a really well-done video. Definitely of high enough quality to rival many of the documentaries produced by the BBC. It was not that long ago that I discovered Pu'er at one of my favorite tea stores (but they no longer have any shops). Pu'er was definitely a unique experience that I was not accustomed to; however, my pallet grew to both accept and really love it.
Wow this was a great episode! Amazing production value, story telling, and just awesome hosting. You are so compelling and likeable to watch. And your interviews were intriguing; the subject matter you covered and what you got the interviewee to share were great.
I literally just WeChatted my Chinese friends today from the USA asking them what kind of tea I had brought back with me after living in Shenzhen for a year. It had been a gift to me ... it was Pu'Er tea! What a coincidence this video popped up for me. Excellent video- subscribed!
Excellent, fun, informative video! Yunnan is my second home since 2012 as my partner is from Pu'er County and I actually only know one person from Yunnan who drinks coffee, the rest just drink tea and that suits me perfectly as I'm a weird Swede (Sweden is one of the world's number one coffee drinking countries) who doesn't drink coffee. I bring home lots of tea produced from ancient tea trees so that I can drink that back home when others drink coffee. I've seen quite a few coffee plantations in Yunnan and seen a temple where the whole temple yard was covered in coffee beans left to dry, but I've been told its not profitable and that the coffee growers really struggle to sell their beans, while I've met dozens of people who got rich or even super wealthy from tea trading, for example some locals on Jingmai Mountain with its ancient tee trea forest. Watching this video, I realize I hadn't gotten the whole picture regarding coffee and its popularity in China. I'm curious now and will find out more next time I'm there. I did try Yunnan coffee once and have a bag of it at home and I enjoyed it more than I had expected, but I much prefer Pu'er tea.
Honestly, your videos are so informative 👏🏻 I love learning about Chinese culture. Thank you for the time you take to make and then share these videos 🤗
WOW, this vlog is really of high quality. The commentary, background music and way of presentation are very professional. I enjoy it. Thank you for sharing it, and also thank you for loving China : )
hahahaha sour dirt! I've never been able to get into espresso either. And totally 100% agree with you that Aussie flat white is the best. you have great taste dude
@@BlondieinChina Lapsang Souchong(正山小种) is a quite famous black tea which I have seen a lot of British tea brands carry it. I don't know too much about it, but the one I got from Canada (imported from Britain) tastes very different from the one I got from China. Very strong smoky flavor, pretty complex (might be better with milk&sugar, but I didn't try). Personally I prefer the China one that is much milder, very fragrant.
Just a nitpick: the plants are not Pu'er tea plants. They're just tea plants. The leaves from them can be processed into any type of tea: white, green, Oolong, purple, black, Pu'er, etc. Another one concerning "over 1000 years". The Sheng Pu'er has been introduced during Ming dynasty, which was a long time ago, but not over 1000 years ago. The Shou Pu'er is relatively new type of tea preparation and was developed in 1973. Edit: actually, nevermind about the second one, it's very arguable. Different sources claim different times. Tea drinking started in Shang Dynasty (1500 BC-1046 BC), and pinpointing date when Sheng Pu'er method was first used is apparently quite hard.
I am Chinese,sorry, you maybe wrong,every tea is a different plant. The year 1000 in the video refers to the production age, not the introduction age. Pu'er Tea was born in the southwest of China, so there is no need to introduce it. As for the age when Chinese emperors began to drink Pu'er tea,the original text of Chinese history is as follows:《蠻書》卷七：“茶出銀生城界諸山，散收無采造法；蒙舍蠻以椒薑桂和烹而飲之”;the time recorded was the Tang Dynasty. 銀生城(yinshengcheng),yinshengcheng tea is yunnan big tea,yunnan big tea is pu'er tea.
@@malayrace3677 I meant that all tea is the same species -- Camellia sinensis aka tea plant. Of course there are many cultivars and hybrids of this species that are specific to a place, they occur naturally or by selection, but is there really a specific cultivar used for making Pu'er only?
I am Chinese ，but I do not like Pu‘er，it taste like medicine，but I like green tea and some tea like “铁观音” “大红袍”， also， coffee also one of my favorite drinks.
to be honest.. i'll go for tea anytime than coffee.. I do love Pu'er Tea its just has that aromatic relax tranquility smell to it better in my opinion than the British Earl Grey..
Great video! I've been drinking pu-'er tea since a visit to China about 15 years ago when I tasted it and never looked back. Also love a good cup of coffee and would never give up one for the other. That would be like saying, "Well, I drink wine, so why would I drink beer?" It's true - two completely different markets.
Wow! I can see that this video is very special and different from your other personal travel or life vlogs! It definitely seems like a mini documentary to me, with a topic sentence (the question), process/experiment from interviewing tea experts and the public & doing field research (visiting the actual tea field yourself); to reaching a conclusion and prediction! Great job~
the18Ting thanks so much! It’s my goal to be a video journalist one day so I hope this is a good step towards that! Means a lot to hear you liked my video!
Actually Yun'Nan is one of the biggest coffe bean exporter in the world, many famous coffee shops including Starbucks buys crazy amount of Yun'Nan coffee bean, but unfortuantely ,for whatever reason, they don't tell their customers or label them accordingly.
With 3 hours I finished watching your video, I am chongqing person, I like your video, also very happy you like China and Chinese culture, it is also very much like you to let more Chinese people and foreigners understand Chinese culture and Chinese cities, you let me out of the Chinese know we also so many cities in China and history and culture, thank you very much.
Good job, Amy, on your excellent documentary on the fascinating culture shift of China from the perspective of traditional beverages - very informative and intriguing. You have piqued my interest in the 普洱 coffee now. I find your videos always thoughtful and informative.
Follow your journey.So enjoyable. I drink both .I think Chinese tea is good after taking Chinese or oily food .Like cleansing my throats .Coffee is a must ever morning..Thank you for educational VDO
Yunnan coffee is excellent. First had some in Lijiang a few years back and bought some bags back... but living in Australia our coffee is kind of amazing as well.
Yeah， definitely no complaints about our Australian coffee! I mean, we are really spoiled for good coffee in Australia! It definitely sets my standards for coffee super high
I drink 2 liters of water every working days. Begin a day with a cup of coffee, sometimes 1 addition in the afternoon, then fill up the working time with Chinese tea. I love both of them.
@@BlondieinChina My little tip is when I consume enough amount of tea, a sweet taste will come out from my mouth. it is not a strong one, it's very very weak but last for very long. on the other hand coffee smell so strong and give me the energy to work happily. they mean a living style to me. I enjoy them so much😄
You really pick interesting topics to cover in your videos! Had no idea that coffee is actually being grown in China on an industrial scale. Greetings from a Ukrainian in Shenzhen:)
Stunning video！The coffee beans from Yun Nan has such a nice flavour and aroma even I am living in NZ which has heaps fantastic coffee culture, still missing the flavour from beautiful Yun Nan.
That was very enjoyable to watch! I didn't know Yunnan grew coffee and that it was that big of a thing. I personally love Pu'erh, actually drinking one right now, and I'm a tea guy but that Yunnan coffee sounds really interesting. I might need to get my hands on it :D
It is up to each individual. Pu'er or any Chinese teas have their own benefits. In most Chinese wedding dinners, Chinese tea is usually served. It is said to cleanse greaziness and to digest the range of food consumed. Cheers
oh ! u just have a right old gent. to comment on both puer tea and coffee. I totally agree with him about the value of tea. I had no idea the coffee trees have been planted in Yunnan more than half century ago.
Coffee is not a Western drink. The coffee plant is a native of Ethiopia and it was discovered that the drink made by brewing its berries was a stimulant. From there, it spread throughout the Middle East before it reached Europe and then America.
If you go to Cantonese speaking places including yum cha, this tea is known as Poh lei ('boh-lay') in Cantonese. It is a bitter an intense tea. My favourite tea 🥰😍😍 I am just guessing that as an Aussie (I'm from Australia too) you'd be more inclined towards the coffee 😂 Your Chinese fantastic!!!
Fascinating! I had no idea China had such a booming coffee industry. This video just popped up as a recommended video on my feed and it was great! Pardon me while I go explore the rest of your videos now 😄
I love coffee, and drink it every day, but Pu'Er is a sublime beverage IMHO... much more so than coffee. Pu'Er is magic! Coffee, even the top stuff, is at the end of the day just a cup of joe.
Traditionally in Tianjin/Beijing, the iconic tea we drink are small leaf jasmine green teas, like the pearl or the dragon ball. I personally can’t stand Pu’er, but this is the great thing about tea: there so much variety that you can choose whichever’
The DIFFERENCE between tea and coffee is CULTURE! Tea is Sit and Sip! Coffee is Grab and Go! Totally opposite culture and lifestyle. Won't mix with tea culture. Tea and smoking. Again, totally opposite lifestyle. Tea was developed in China to combat polluted water, same as German beer. But unlike beer, Tea has developed into a HEALTHY meditative lifestyle, which includes tea poetry.
You've grown so much as a documentarian, really professional and high quality! Thanks for sharing this with us.
Thank you SO much! My dream is to be a documentarian or video journalist so hope this is just a step on the way! Really appreciate the kind words and motivation!
Blondie in China did you take all footage including drone footage over the tea fields?
@@BlondieinChina But actually though... this is the first video of yours I've seen, and it's really, really impressive!! I was waiting for there to be some point where it was lacking in knowledge or respect, or quality, (like plenty of other channels) but that never happened! Good job ^_^
@@BlondieinChina If I didn't know better, I would think I was watching the BBC. You did an awesome job on this. I hope Scott at Yunnan Sourcing and James and Denny of TeaDB see this. I saw where Don from Mei Leaf already commented and agree with him 100%. So well produced and you have such great energy on screen. I wish you the best and have every expectation that you will have many, many subscribers as more discover your excellent content.
SaltydogNC ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ thank you SO much!
"Absolutely not. Every culture has its followers." THAT is the mindset that makes China great!
As a tea channel which has done a lot of filming in Yunnan and about PuErh, I wanted to reach out and say that I really appreciate the level of work that went into this one and your approach tio the subject matter. I predict big things for your channel and will follow along.
Hi Don, big up to the team and the teahead community!
Mei Leaf I appreciate this comment SO MUCH!! Especially from such an amazing tea related account. Thanks for the lovely words!!!
I think you will also be interested in this video on tea from a Chinese UA-camr. ua-cam.com/video/wEbwZPgb4Js/v-deo.html
This clip is culturally informative and educative.
Stupig DA cannot agree more
Stupig DA thank you!!!
作为一个老普洱人（现宁洱县），乐见你的分享。又作为一个爱喝饮料的人，茶、咖啡、可可、汽水，都在我生活里和谐的共存～～～～
老乡同感
来澜沧干杯自烤酒，健康麻里拐。
我日呢咋个这份多普洱人
哈哈哈哈，我也是，每天早上一壶茶，中午喝咖啡，晚上喝威士忌加可乐
Ahaha I loved the italian man part since Im italian as well. I definitely want to try both the tea and coffee T.T cant wait to come to china!
Awesome video also, very informative and interesting.
Moon Lookingforthesun hahaha I hope you like both the yunnanese tea and coffee when you get a chance to try!!
This is undoubtedly one of the better documentaries on Pu'er tea. I love both Pu'er tea and coffee. I have tried a few other Chinese tea, but my personal favourite is still Pu'er. Greeting from Malaysia!
Om Ni thank you so much!!! I’m so happy you liked the video!
What style of puerh do you like?
Agreed. Same here. From Singapore 😊
I seem to be one year late with these videos, but I love it! I had no idea how life in China is and your videos really gives an insight into it. As someone living in Europe I rarely hear anything positive about the country. This is really refreshing to see! Really something needed during these weird times we now live in :)
As for coffee Vs tea I think they will always live side by side. As someone who has spent the past years trying to understand coffee, getting good quality tea and some basics of tea was really natural. Altough this video really shows that there is a lot I need to learn about tea xD
How long did it take to film/edit this? Really impressive quality! Your Chinese is great btw.
Hazdude it took me 1 week to film and a decent week of editing to finish it. Thanks so much for your lovely comment!!!
@@BlondieinChina great work, must have taken a long time to create the subtitle too, that's probably the most time consuming part. Respect!!
Another informative vlog from a very beautiful lady , compare, coffee from west and tea from east ,hoping someday west and east can really have a harmonious relationship ,no envy , no war ,no defamatory remarks only love and peace !
thats all I want!!! Thanks for helping me spread the love!
From middle east.
Please, more videos about the tea culture in China, that's a great insight for far away tea lovers ❤️🌱🙏
I agree that tea is not going anywhere anytime soon. Actually, tea culture has grown exponentially here in Mexico City since the 90's. Which is great, cos I love tea. I do think however that it's kind of sad that some people seem to regard tea as boring, old-fashioned, not hip enough or even bland. It is just generally underappreciated, and tea has so much to offer. To me tea trains you to appreciate subtlety, delicate aromas and fine tones. I like coffee too, but for me, tea is always gonna be my poison.
I'm learning about my own culture from watching Blondie's video 🍵
Thats so cool!
Me too
Me too lol
wow same
cos our country is so big, there is always something new to learn about XD
This really exemplifies Chinese culture and China, where old and new, traditional and modern, and the young and the old, can all coexist in harmony and with mutual respect. You have brought this out beautifully through your videos and are are doing such a great job. Thank you so much!
Love your video.
I stay in Kunming, Yunnan, and I love both tea and coffee.
I studied tea in a tea expert school(like a training small class that you can get in Kunming), I can definitely tell and admire the Puer tea now, it's more about a kind of attitude for life, you can tell the different layers of flavour (the tea go through your throat, you can feel it in your tongue, your teeth, the entire mouth, and finally your whole body, in my opinion, these feelings need to be trained. Because I can't feel it in that way till trained.) and I drink it everyday. Good for keeping the body shape, and keep the mind clear like the coffee does. If you buy good quality like 老班章laobanzhang, or 冰岛Bingdao, It's expensive, and I choose like 贺开Hekai, 帕莎Pasha, less expensive, about 1200RMB for1 kilo. And I love it, you can buy like RMB300 in bulk, and drink already a long time, strong tea is only for taste not good for body, so light tea need less tea leaves. Remember to take care of the tea leaves, broken tea leaf can add bitter and astrictive taste to that.
I also love coffee, after having all that good espresso in Rome, so I got a good coffee machine, My coffee bean was from BaoShan, Yunnan, very good quality, very fresh and cheap(1kilo about RMB 70，can be bought in Taobao.) Coffee for the morning, and a tea cup with me for work. so nice.
Geraldine Charles great advice!!!
Very interesting. Never knew coffee being grown in China.
tasty. you can try it.
God created the world
The rest are made by china
Because it has not export, it is not enough for domestic yet.
fibo coffee (yunnan china) founded by an american, now is available in the states.
@grimm reaper yunnan
Some People from Northeast India migrated hundreds year ago from Yunnan
我是滴滤咖啡的深粉，普洱的咖啡也有尝试，对比非洲，比如埃塞俄比亚的耶加雪啡，客观的说，尚有欠缺，但是，品质已经很好了，假以时日，云南咖啡一定会脱颖而出，期待这一天！
that was really informative about tea and coffee in china. always love your unbiased videos about china. keep it up!
Thanks so much!!
Really interesting and educational. Thanks for making such a creative and informative video. Excellent job!
This is slowly becoming one of my favourite channels on UA-cam... well done keep up the good work!
Can you do a video on Kaiping, Taishan, Enping? Most immigrants that left China in the 80's to early 2000 for Australia, Canada and USA came from this area.
Your wish came true in 2021. 🤣
This is so great! I loved this video I'm from china and my dad is a tea expert and me and him would sit down every day and drink Pu'er tea and read a talk and keep posting!
Hi I'm from 昆明 and I've done some tea-trip guide here, glad to see your video and I just learn that Yunnan produces so much coffee!! Thank you so much for sharing this
Hi. Great video, thank you 🙏
Few things just for your information, PuErh is named after City of PuErh not other way around, it have been changed to city of Simao at some point but with PuErh growing popularity they came back to it’s original name.
Also PuErh is as much big leaf variety (camellia sinensis assamica) as processing and terroir (must be coming from Yunnan), so technically you can make any kind of tea from it, thus PuErh doesn’t just grow, it’s made into PuErh.
Looking forward to more of your videos 👌
Hm, I found this information:
"The city, famous for Pu'er tea growing for hundreds of years, was first granted the Pu'er name in 1729 when the Qing government established an administrative region there."
"The raw pu-erh tea was invented and introduced during the dynasty of Ming, about 700-800 years ago"
So it seems to me that you are wrong saying that the tea was named after the city. Unless you can provide some other information.
A. P. V.
Hi. Thanks for reading my comment :)
Google “origins of PuErh” and read what specialized blogs / shops have to say about it.
“Pu-erh tea is named after a town called Pu-erh located in central Yunnan. Pu-erh did not produce tea; rather, it was a trading post where all teas produced from the nearby tea mountains were sold and traded. For easy transport, teas were compressed into cakes or bricks and transported to different parts of China and Asia by horse caravan. Later, all teas traded in this town came to be known as Pu-erh tea”
Source
www.banateacompany.com/pages/puerh_history.html
Another:
sevencups.com/learn-about-tea/puer-tea/
I’ve read about it in one of my books about tea, I also think it was mentioned in GTH magazine.
Hope that helps :)
A. P. V. Found GTH article
“The Name "Puerh"
The word "puerh" really doesn't refer to a kind of tea. It was once a city within the Yunnan region of China. In 1950, after the Communist Revolution, the city was renamed "Simao". Then, in 2007, after a tidal wave of puerh madness and popularity, the local government made the decision to call the city by its original name, so it is now once again called "Puerh", as is the province. Traditionally, Puerh was the market center where all the tea grown in the region was brought to be traded and/or sold. Later, all the tea from Yunnan came to be known as "Puerh Cha (普洱茶)" or "Tea from Puerh"...”
Source
archive.globalteahut.org/article/427
@@kalefu So, you're saying that the Pu'erh tea didn't exist before 1729, when the town was named?
A. P. V. I’ve said no such thing you just jumped to conclusion.
Traditionally PuErh was I believe just called Hei Cha, commonly translated as dark tea (due to PuErh used to be drank only after aging).
Most famous variety of Hei Cha category is Pu-erh, named after the trading post (PuErh city) for dark tea during imperial China.
I’m not sure about what year PuErh city have been established and I would take information from wiki with grain of salt.
As for history of PuErh tea, it can be traced back to Eastern Han Dynasty (25-220 CE) according to some sources.
Is that settles it ?
Had to subscribe - I love documentaries, and your short videos are very well made!
I also live in China now and always watch videos about it!
Colin Blaney thank you so much!!! Where do you live in China?
I used to live in Kunming. I love that place! I’m a little strange because I actually add my pu’er tea with my espresso. You should try it as well. It’s a harmonious infusion. 😊
haha, mix pu’er tea with espresso? Sounds so wired but I would like to try it next time
lol you are a genius 😂
This is the best video ever made. This channel deserves more subscribers!
As a chinese who drinks pu'er and coffee regularly, I find this video entertaining and informative. Keep up the good work :)
Lovely documentary! In Hong Kong half tea, half coffee drinks are quite popular. I tried it once. Loved it!
syncmaster915n wow!! I really need to try that!
It's called 鴦鴛 in Hong Kong, original a kind of bird name (usually appears as a pair of couples) but use it to resemble the mix of coffee and red tea. Many people in HK like it.
I love Yuanyang, such a great drink!
@@akakakakakak3084 How do you make it? Do you just mix equal parts of coffee and tea (and any particular kind of tea?), or is it more complicated? (And is it normally sweetened?)
@@AbsentWithoutLeaving The mixing ratio is very subjective, but mostly is 50/50. However, the red tea is also mixed in different types in the restaurants with their own secret formula, so the tastes are different from restaurants too. So people have to try to get their most favourite.
I'm Chinese tho born & raised in Sydney. Watching your vids & seeing how immersed into Chinese culture you are has literally made my week.
Andy Liu aww I’m glad you liked it!!! Thanks for such a lovely comment Andy
Pu'er Tea is good for health tho ;p I like both
Your channel is of superb quality! It’s obviously you put a lot of heart into making your videos
I love this! As a die hard Tea and coffee fan, i enjoyed every minute of this documentary.
Love the video. I used to live in east China but never got to travel west. I'll probably pop over for a visit in the future. Even in tiny Weihai, there were maybe three Starbucks, as well as 10 or so Bread'N cafes, and a variety of different family-owned dessert cafes that served their own homebrewed coffees. The culture in China is definitely changing.
It's ironic, though, that everyone equates coffee with being a mostly western drink. Yes, it is popular in Europe and the Americas. However, coffee trees have been growing in East Africa forever and it was the West Asian countries like Yemen and Turkey that made it into a drink first from what I've read. It's from the Arabic word قهوه "qahwah".
Hey. Greetings from a fellow-Australian! Great video. This is the first of your videos I have come across and was impressed. I am a huge fan of Chinese tea, especially Pu-erh and oolong. Just a little note: the city of Pu'er was not named after the tea but vice versa - the tea was named after the city. Interestingly, the city's name was changed to Simao in 1950 (during the Chinese Civil War) but in 2007 the city's name was changed back to Pu'er. I wish I could speak and understand the Chinese language as well as you do!
Plus 100 points for Puerh. Great video.
Bravo! This was a really well-done video. Definitely of high enough quality to rival many of the documentaries produced by the BBC.
It was not that long ago that I discovered Pu'er at one of my favorite tea stores (but they no longer have any shops). Pu'er was definitely a unique experience that I was not accustomed to; however, my pallet grew to both accept and really love it.
Wow this was a great episode! Amazing production value, story telling, and just awesome hosting. You are so compelling and likeable to watch. And your interviews were intriguing; the subject matter you covered and what you got the interviewee to share were great.
I literally just WeChatted my Chinese friends today from the USA asking them what kind of tea I had brought back with me after living in Shenzhen for a year. It had been a gift to me ... it was Pu'Er tea! What a coincidence this video popped up for me. Excellent video- subscribed!
Awesome!! Glad to have you on board!
Excellent, fun, informative video! Yunnan is my second home since 2012 as my partner is from Pu'er County and I actually only know one person from Yunnan who drinks coffee, the rest just drink tea and that suits me perfectly as I'm a weird Swede (Sweden is one of the world's number one coffee drinking countries) who doesn't drink coffee. I bring home lots of tea produced from ancient tea trees so that I can drink that back home when others drink coffee. I've seen quite a few coffee plantations in Yunnan and seen a temple where the whole temple yard was covered in coffee beans left to dry, but I've been told its not profitable and that the coffee growers really struggle to sell their beans, while I've met dozens of people who got rich or even super wealthy from tea trading, for example some locals on Jingmai Mountain with its ancient tee trea forest. Watching this video, I realize I hadn't gotten the whole picture regarding coffee and its popularity in China. I'm curious now and will find out more next time I'm there. I did try Yunnan coffee once and have a bag of it at home and I enjoyed it more than I had expected, but I much prefer Pu'er tea.
Thanks so much for your comment and sharing your experiences! I'd love to come visit you in Yunnan one day!
Hong Kong has ended the tea vs coffee war by just mixing both into the same cup and called it Yuenyeung
Kenmanhl 鸳鸯 哈哈 good comment I bet not many foreigners ever heard about it!
Wow! Never heard of that! Sounds like an interesting concept haha
This drink 鴛鴦 exist in Hong Kong‘s low-end restaurants called 茶餐廳 for at least half a century already.
FYI, 鸳鸯 is also very common in Singapore and Malaysia.
I should try that before I knock it.
Honestly, your videos are so informative 👏🏻 I love learning about Chinese culture. Thank you for the time you take to make and then share these videos 🤗
I'm so glad you like them Kelly!!!
Morning coffee, evening tea, my take
WOW, this vlog is really of high quality. The commentary, background music and way of presentation are very professional. I enjoy it. Thank you for sharing it, and also thank you for loving China : )
Aww thank you so much Hogan!! really appreciate your comment and feedback!!
This vlog is really amazing and is in a very high quality in every aspect!
Woah! I love the black and white outfit you wore in the tea field! Gorg!! Such an interesting and informative topic too!
puer tea is my favourite tea, it has a really unique , elegant taste which distinguishes itself from all the other teas!just love it!
Puer is my go to black tea. Espresso tastes like sour dirt to me. Aussie flat white is about the only coffee I can enjoy. Another great video Ames!
hahahaha sour dirt! I've never been able to get into espresso either. And totally 100% agree with you that Aussie flat white is the best. you have great taste dude
I drink coffee and tea and my favourite tea is Lapsang Souchong but I am curious to try Pu'er Tea.
Marty Mullen I’ve never heard of that tea! I’ll definitely have to check it out ASAP. Thanks for the tip!
Blondie in China that tea is much more expensive now in China
@@BlondieinChina Lapsang Souchong(正山小种) is a quite famous black tea which I have seen a lot of British tea brands carry it. I don't know too much about it, but the one I got from Canada (imported from Britain) tastes very different from the one I got from China. Very strong smoky flavor, pretty complex (might be better with milk&sugar, but I didn't try). Personally I prefer the China one that is much milder, very fragrant.
Just a nitpick: the plants are not Pu'er tea plants. They're just tea plants. The leaves from them can be processed into any type of tea: white, green, Oolong, purple, black, Pu'er, etc.
Another one concerning "over 1000 years". The Sheng Pu'er has been introduced during Ming dynasty, which was a long time ago, but not over 1000 years ago. The Shou Pu'er is relatively new type of tea preparation and was developed in 1973.
Edit: actually, nevermind about the second one, it's very arguable. Different sources claim different times. Tea drinking started in Shang Dynasty (1500 BC-1046 BC), and pinpointing date when Sheng Pu'er method was first used is apparently quite hard.
I am Chinese,sorry, you maybe wrong,every tea is a different plant.
The year 1000 in the video refers to the production age, not the introduction age.
Pu'er Tea was born in the southwest of China, so there is no need to introduce it.
As for the age when Chinese emperors began to drink Pu'er tea,the original text of Chinese history is as follows:《蠻書》卷七：“茶出銀生城界諸山，散收無采造法；蒙舍蠻以椒薑桂和烹而飲之”;the time recorded was the Tang Dynasty.
銀生城(yinshengcheng),yinshengcheng tea is yunnan big tea,yunnan big tea is pu'er tea.
@@malayrace3677 I meant that all tea is the same species -- Camellia sinensis aka tea plant. Of course there are many cultivars and hybrids of this species that are specific to a place, they occur naturally or by selection, but is there really a specific cultivar used for making Pu'er only?
@@_APV_ Well,the translation software is not accurate.
As a Chinese I'm actually been educated by your videos and why are you so beautiful with such bright smiles, kinda addicted to it....
I am Chinese ，but I do not like Pu‘er，it taste like medicine，but I like green tea and some tea like “铁观音” “大红袍”，
also， coffee also one of my favorite drinks.
As a Chinese, I even don't know that we produce so many coffee each year... Thanks for your sharing.
I'm glad you were also able to learn something in this video!
to be honest.. i'll go for tea anytime than coffee.. I do love Pu'er Tea its just has that aromatic relax tranquility smell to it better in my opinion than the British Earl Grey..
Great video! I've been drinking pu-'er tea since a visit to China about 15 years ago when I tasted it and never looked back. Also love a good cup of coffee and would never give up one for the other. That would be like saying, "Well, I drink wine, so why would I drink beer?" It's true - two completely different markets.
Wow! I didn’t know Yunan grows coffee, now I need to go there 😊 Thanks for sharing
Wow! I can see that this video is very special and different from your other personal travel or life vlogs! It definitely seems like a mini documentary to me, with a topic sentence (the question), process/experiment from interviewing tea experts and the public & doing field research (visiting the actual tea field yourself); to reaching a conclusion and prediction! Great job~
the18Ting thanks so much! It’s my goal to be a video journalist one day so I hope this is a good step towards that! Means a lot to hear you liked my video!
Tea cultivation in China! That'll never catch on! Seriously though, great video. Thanks.
D G hahah thanks so much!
不错的视频，制作和字幕挺走心的，👍茶的品种有很多种，普洱茶是熟茶，我个人比较喜欢碧螺春，铁观音，金骏眉，绿茶🍵，其次就是老家传统罐罐茶（煮茶）。
王永忠 兄弟什么时候一起能喝个罐罐茶，小时候每天早上奶奶会煮上罐罐茶，那一口苦中涩韵味甜的味道很是回味无穷
普洱分 生 和 熟 两种。我家喜欢喝熟普。 那个，罐罐茶是什么意思？
I shall now mix coffee and tea into a single drink!
(NO YOU FOOL! DON-)
*HUGE EXPLOSION*
There is a drink that mixes tea and coffee together. At least in South East Asia. It's called Yuanyang
thank you for existing!!!
“There’s even a city name after it” Do you mean that tea was named after the city? :P
Anyway, great documentary. Tea will always be above coffee.
Pu'er is the name of the city, tea was named after the city. haha
Actually Yun'Nan is one of the biggest coffe bean exporter in the world, many famous coffee shops including Starbucks buys crazy amount of Yun'Nan coffee bean, but unfortuantely ,for whatever reason, they don't tell their customers or label them accordingly.
With 3 hours I finished watching your video, I am chongqing person, I like your video, also very happy you like China and Chinese culture, it is also very much like you to let more Chinese people and foreigners understand Chinese culture and Chinese cities, you let me out of the Chinese know we also so many cities in China and history and culture, thank you very much.
Those smiles and laughters at the end, precious!!!!! :D
Good job, Amy, on your excellent documentary on the fascinating culture shift of China from the perspective of traditional beverages - very informative and intriguing. You have piqued my interest in the 普洱 coffee now. I find your videos always thoughtful and informative.
任Francis thank you Francis for the lovely comment! So happy you enjoyed the video 👍👍
Follow your journey.So enjoyable.
I drink both .I think Chinese tea is good after taking Chinese or oily food .Like cleansing my throats .Coffee is a must ever morning..Thank you for educational VDO
you have great content definitely deserves more recognition. Glad I found your channel
Yunnan coffee is excellent. First had some in Lijiang a few years back and bought some bags back... but living in Australia our coffee is kind of amazing as well.
Yeah， definitely no complaints about our Australian coffee! I mean, we are really spoiled for good coffee in Australia! It definitely sets my standards for coffee super high
I drink 2 liters of water every working days.
Begin a day with a cup of coffee, sometimes 1 addition in the afternoon, then fill up the working time with Chinese tea.
I love both of them.
wow 2 litres! Thats great! There was a time where for like 2 months I only drank tea, nothing else, including water!!!
@@BlondieinChina My little tip is when I consume enough amount of tea, a sweet taste will come out from my mouth. it is not a strong one, it's very very weak but last for very long.
on the other hand coffee smell so strong and give me the energy to work happily. they mean a living style to me. I enjoy them so much😄
Thx for share your experience of my hometown to the world. Really appreciate.
Wow! Two of my most favourite drinks! HAHA great video. Btw, your Chinese is so good.
You really pick interesting topics to cover in your videos! Had no idea that coffee is actually being grown in China on an industrial scale. Greetings from a Ukrainian in Shenzhen:)
Thanks so much! Glad you could learn something!
Really like your videos! Beautifully edited. I've never been to Yun Nan, would love to go someday. Thank you so much =)
good job and nice documentation...I like it so much...a lot of knowledge
Stunning video！The coffee beans from Yun Nan has such a nice flavour and aroma even I am living in NZ which has heaps fantastic coffee culture, still missing the flavour from beautiful Yun Nan.
Impressive content! Thanks for sharing!
That was very enjoyable to watch! I didn't know Yunnan grew coffee and that it was that big of a thing. I personally love Pu'erh, actually drinking one right now, and I'm a tea guy but that Yunnan coffee sounds really interesting. I might need to get my hands on it :D
Tropical Fruit thanks so much!! Hope that you had a lovely pu’er tea just now! If you like pu’er, you definitely need to get to yunnan ASAP!
Great video! I actually learnt something from it. When it comes to tea, the older the tree, the better tasting its leaves!
It is up to each individual.
Pu'er or any Chinese teas have their own benefits. In most Chinese wedding dinners, Chinese tea is usually served. It is said to cleanse greaziness and to digest the range of food consumed.
Cheers
oh ! u just have a right old gent. to comment on both puer tea and coffee. I totally agree with him about the value of tea. I had no idea the coffee trees have been planted in Yunnan more than half century ago.
You have done lots of effort to present a good video, thank you for promoting Chinese culture!
The way chinese drrink tea is quite different to the times they would drink Coffee. By the way I absolutely love what you're doing.
Coffee is not a Western drink. The coffee plant is a native of Ethiopia and it was discovered that the drink made by brewing its berries was a stimulant. From there, it spread throughout the Middle East before it reached Europe and then America.
5:24 hahaha you found a desperate italian looking for a cup of coffee! I suffered for withdrawal symptoms about that!
If you go to Cantonese speaking places including yum cha, this tea is known as Poh lei ('boh-lay') in Cantonese. It is a bitter an intense tea. My favourite tea 🥰😍😍 I am just guessing that as an Aussie (I'm from Australia too) you'd be more inclined towards the coffee 😂 Your Chinese fantastic!!!
Well done, Amy. Fantastic job! If you are ever back in Kunming and want to catch up with another couple of Aussies for a coffee/tea, let me know.
Oh Amy, this is such a great video!
Fascinating! I had no idea China had such a booming coffee industry.
This video just popped up as a recommended video on my feed and it was great! Pardon me while I go explore the rest of your videos now 😄
Jackie Allen omg thank you!!! Hope you also liked my other videos!! Have a great day :)
You are so underrated, really professional. Keep up the good work!
Joris Hageman thank you joris!!!
I love coffee, and drink it every day, but Pu'Er is a sublime beverage IMHO... much more so than coffee. Pu'Er is magic! Coffee, even the top stuff, is at the end of the day just a cup of joe.
Excellent presentation. I love the 'boots on the ground' style of your documentary.
Traditionally in Tianjin/Beijing, the iconic tea we drink are small leaf jasmine green teas, like the pearl or the dragon ball. I personally can’t stand Pu’er, but this is the great thing about tea: there so much variety that you can choose whichever’
The BGM is good. Makes this vlog like a documentary.
Hi, just saw your video! It's great! How is the transport from Kunming to Pu'er field tea?
The DIFFERENCE between tea and coffee is CULTURE! Tea is Sit and Sip! Coffee is Grab and Go! Totally opposite culture and lifestyle. Won't mix with tea culture. Tea and smoking. Again, totally opposite lifestyle. Tea was developed in China to combat polluted water, same as German beer. But unlike beer, Tea has developed into a HEALTHY meditative lifestyle, which includes tea poetry.
You have a beautiful smile and an infectious laugh. 😊 Great show!
China is so cool to travel. I want travel soon end of this year 🇲🇳🇲🇳
as a chinese, i always hv puer tea and coffee beans fully stocked at home... can't live without these two.