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09/12/2025

🎄 YuanCha Advent Calendar – Day 9

🌿 Tea of the day｜Qingxin oolong
🍃 Flavor Wheel｜elegant florals ・ mountain freshness ・ soft fruit ・ clean sweetness

🌟 Sipping Diary｜Qingxin Oolong is one of the most iconic tea cultivars in Taiwan.

Some people also call it Ruan Zhi, and its history traces back to the “short-foot oolong” from Anxi, Fujian. It’s a small-leaf variety that’s perfect for partially oxidized teas, which is why it’s used for both Baozhong and classic Taiwanese oolongs.

You’ll find it almost everywhere above 1,000 meters — most high-mountain teas in Taiwan are made from this very cultivar.

Even though the plant is naturally weak, grows low to the ground, and is easily affected by disease, it rewards farmers with something special: tea that’s famous for its lingering sweetness, clear aftertaste, and layered flavor.

Its leaves are slightly thick with pale, obvious veins, and the young buds even appear purplish in spring. These little traits shape the personality of the tea in your cup. Qingxin has a clean, steady character that feels grounding in a quiet, everyday way. It doesn’t try to overwhelm; it simply offers clarity — the kind you notice when you tidy a small corner of your room, take a breath before answering a message, or step outside for a moment of cool air.

Simple things, but somehow they make the day feel lighter and more manageable. Maybe that’s why Qingxin is so beloved. It’s honest, gentle, and full of depth without asking for attention — a tea that reminds us that clarity often comes from the simplest moments.

📌 Taiwan Tea Fact｜Strong mountain winds naturally reduce pests, allowing many Taiwanese tea farms to use fewer chemicals.
💡What was your first thought while drinking today’s tea? A single line is enough.
Same place, next cup. See you tomorrow✨

08/12/2025

🎄 YuanCha Advent Calendar – Day 8

🌿 Tea of the day｜Sijichun (Four Season Spring)
🍃 Flavor Wheel｜bright florals ・ fresh greens ・ light sweetness ・ spring breeze

🌟 Sipping Diary｜In Taiwan, Four Season Spring is everywhere — it’s one of the most common tea bases in bubble tea shops, and ordering a large iced, unsweetened Sijichun is almost a classic choice for teenagers. It’s easy, familiar, and always within reach.

You’ll also find unsweetened ice oolong in every convenience store such as 7-11. For many Taiwanese, unsweetened ice tea is part of everyday life — it’s a familiar sight, almost a comfort. When I was a kid, I sometimes bought a bottle of plain iced oolong at the convenience store because I thought it made me look a little grown-up. Maybe that’s what unsweetened tea represents: a tiny step toward feeling mature, even if it’s just a childhood memory that makes me smile now ;)

Most Four Season Spring tea is grown in Songboling, Nantou, a small tea village surrounded by gentle hills and steady mountain breezes. It’s not as famous as high-mountain regions like Alishan or Lishan, but it has something just as important: consistency. Farmers there produce tea that’s clean, floral, and dependable — the kind of flavor you don’t have to think too much about, you simply enjoy.

And maybe that’s what makes Sijichun special: it fits into ordinary days. It doesn’t need a special moment or ceremony. Just a cup on the desk, in the car, or after coming home — a small sweetness that quietly softens the edges of everything else.

📌 Taiwan Tea Fact｜During oolong oxidation, tea masters listen to the sound of the leaves while tossing to judge fermentation level.
💡If today’s tea gave you a moment of calm or beauty, feel free to share it.
Same place, next cup. See you tomorrow✨

07/12/2025

🎄 YuanCha Advent Calendar – Day 7

🌿 Tea of the day｜Bright Blossom – Rosa Fruit, Rose, Dates & Lemon Tea
🍃 Flavor Wheel｜citrus brightness ・ gentle rose aroma ・ juicy tartness ・ refreshing clarity
🥄Ingredients｜rosa fruit, rose, red date, lemon

🌟 Sipping Diary｜Today’s tea is a little different — no oolong, black tea, or traditional leaves.

Rosa fruit, rose, dates and lemon come together in a blend that feels light on the palate and steady in the body. Rosa fruit (or, Roxburgh Rose) brings a subtle, round tartness; rose softens the edges; lemon lifts everything with clarity. Herbal blends like this remind us that comfort doesn’t always come from caffeine or familiar flavors. Sometimes it arrives through brightness, like a sip of fresh air, or a gentle scent that resets the mood.

There’s a simple kind of clarity here — nothing heavy, nothing complicated. Sometimes all you want is something clean and bright — a taste that reminds you to take a small break and keep going.

📌 Taiwan Tea Fact｜The earliest “wellness teas” in the world weren’t made from tea leaves but from herbs, flowers, and even tree bark.
💡What kind of softness did this cup bring you today? Share it if you’d like.
Same place, next cup. See you tomorrow✨

06/12/2025

🎄 YuanCha Advent Calendar – Day 6

🌿 Tea of the day｜Sun-Moon lake black tea
🍃 Flavor Wheel｜cinnamon spice ・ minty warmth ・ red fruit ・ deep sweetness

🌟 Sipping Diary｜Some warmth stays with you longer than expected, and this cup carried that kind of lingering comfort.

Sun Moon Lake black tea comes from Nantou, Taiwan — a region shaped by mist, mountain air, and history. It’s also home to the old Sun Moon Lake Tea Research Station, where different tea varieties were introduced and adapted, eventually creating the unique character we taste today: soft spice, natural sweetness, and a smooth, lingering finish.

Many people expect Sun Moon Lake teas to come as loose leaves. But tea bags can be just as thoughtful. We use intentionally broken leaf grades, which release aroma and flavor more quickly. It’s practical, especially for daily cups, office brews, or moments when you want warmth without waiting for long infusion times. Convenience doesn’t need to compromise depth — it simply invites tea into more moments.

This black tea has a way of staying with you: a quiet heat in the chest, a gentle sweetness after swallowing, a sense of comfort that lasts even after the cup is empty. Tea doesn’t have to be complex to linger; sometimes all it offers is steadiness.

📌 Taiwan Tea Fact｜Taiwan’s diverse climates and terrains allow it to produce both high-mountain oolongs and tropical-style black teas — something rare globally. Sun Moon Lake became a major black tea region during the Japanese era, when experimental tea gardens were built to cultivate new cultivars.
💡Tea is such a personal experience. If you’d like, share your little discovery from today.
Same place, next cup. See you tomorrow✨

05/12/2025

🎄 YuanCha Advent Calendar – Day 5

🌿 Tea of the day｜Alishan Jinxuan milky oolong
🍃 Flavor Wheel｜creamy florals ・ soft sweetness ・ buttery smoothness・ milky aftertaste

🌟 Sipping Diary｜The Quiet Resilience of Softness

Jin Xuan from Alishan is famously known as “milky oolong.” This delicate milkiness isn’t an additive; it’s a gentle creaminess naturally cultivated by the tea leaves in this exceptional environment. The cool mountain mist, steady humidity, and patient sunlight collectively bestow upon the liquor a silky, velvety texture.

As I sipped today, this buttery richness reminded me that softness possesses its own quiet power. True strength isn’t always loud or decisive; it looks more like the capacity to remain calm amid uncertainty, or the wisdom to choose patience when everything around feels urgent.

The posture of the tea is the best demonstration. The leaves do not rush to open—they unfurl slowly, without force, layer by layer. This tenderness is not weakness; it is a resilience achieved with ease, a presence maintained without struggle. Perhaps there is room for this in our daily lives, too: granting ourselves a softer response, a gentler thought, or a small act of self-kindness. Not a dramatic overhaul, but a quietly sustained sense of grounding.

📌 Taiwan Tea Fact｜Jin Xuan was developed by the renowned tea scientist Wu Zhen-Duo, who named the cultivar after his grandmother’s name “JinXuan” to honor her memory.
💡What mood did you bring to your tea today? Share your moment—let’s slow down together.
Same place, next cup. See you tomorrow✨

04/12/2025

🎄 YuanCha Advent Calendar – Day 4

🌿 Tea of the day｜Gaba Oolong
🍃 Flavor Wheel｜dried fruit ・ tropical tang ・ sweet herbs ・ mellow sweetness

🌟 Sipping Diary｜The Art and Science of Slowing Down

The cup you hold began as a beautiful accident.

In the 1980s, Japanese researchers stored tea leaves in a low-oxygen environment and made an unexpected discovery: the leaves naturally produced significantly higher levels of gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA). It was a scientific experiment that, surprisingly, tasted great.

GABA Oolong later found its true home in Taiwan, where tea makers refined the technique using heavy fermentation and traditional oolong processing. It rose to popularity not through slick marketing, but through a simple, noticeable benefit: it helps the mind dial down the noise without demanding you stop living, effectively promoting relaxation and easing tension by leveraging the naturally occurring GABA to support the central nervous system.

This cup arrived today like hitting a soft-focus button—one of those rare moments when the sharp edges of the world gently blur. Not a full shutdown, just a conscious shift in pace.

Life moves fast on most days, but tea offers small windows of deliberate attention. It’s a brief silence before the next task, a breath before a response, a moment where nothing is truly urgent. Tea doesn’t ask us to escape—it simply invites us to notice.

📌 Taiwan Tea Fact｜ Taiwan began producing GABA tea in the 1990s, notably in Nantou and Hualien, where the humid mountain air perfectly supports the slow, controlled fermentation process.
💡 What small moment helped you hit the “soft-focus button” today? Share a tiny ritual that helped you reset.
Same place, next cup. See you tomorrow ✨

03/12/2025

🎄 YuanCha Advent Calendar – Day 3

🌿 Tea of the day｜Taitung Red Oolong
🍃 Flavor Wheel｜honeyed fruit ・ baked apple ・ amber sweetness ・ soft caramel

🌟 Sipping Diary｜Many people ask: What is red oolong? Does it look red? Does it taste like black tea? Red oolong (or hong oolong) is a relatively new tea in Taiwan.

It first appeared around 2008 and is made with heavy fermentation, similar to black tea, but still finished with oolong techniques. The result is a cup that holds both sweetness and softness — smooth like caramel, bright like dried fruit.

I was first drawn to the gentle smokiness and huigan — the returning sweetness that lingers after you swallow.

Later, when my family traveled to Taitung, we visited the farmer behind this tea. We spent half a day in their tea fields and their home, tasting different batches and listening to their stories.

A couple in their seventies, their house perfectly neat, the air carrying a soft hint of cypress wood. They spoke about tea with quiet pride, patience, and humor — the kind you find in people who have worked with their hands for decades.

Before we left, they said what many Taiwanese elders say: “Come visit us again next time”, sincerely.

Now, whenever I make red oolong, I think of that trip — the waves of Taiwan’s central mountain range rolling into the distance, and the deep blue Pacific stretching endlessly beyond. Some flavors really do taste like warm moments — familiar, grounding, a little like home.

📌 Taiwan Tea Fact｜Red Oolong is a uniquely Taiwanese invention, combining the sweetness of black tea with the softness of oolong.
💡Every cup holds your own interpretation. What did you taste today? Share with us.
Same place, next cup. See you tomorrow✨

02/12/2025

🎄 YuanCha Advent Calendar – Day 2

🌿 Tea of the day｜D**gding Oolong
🍃 Flavor Wheel｜roasted nuts ・ caramel ・ warm florals ・ toasted grains

🌟 Sipping Diary｜ D**g Ding is named after a mountain in Nantou, Taiwan. In Taiwanese Hokkien, “D**g” means to grip the soil with your toes, and “Ding” means mountain top — a quiet reminder that steady effort often begins with small, almost unnoticed actions.

In Taiwanese tea history, people often say “North Baozhong, South D**g Ding.” For over a hundred years, northern Taiwan became known for floral Baozhong tea, and the south for deeper, roasted D**g Ding Oolong. Two different ways of working with leaves, shaped by land and weather, both built on daily repetition.

Tea doesn’t rush. It doesn’t demand attention. It simply invites us to notice what is already happening — water warming, breath slowing, thoughts untangling a little at a time.

In the middle of busy hours and endless tasks, tea can become a quiet practice: a way to pause, to listen, to return to something steady. Some days, tea feels like a friend, showing up without asking for anything. Other days, it feels like a teacher, reminding us to take one thing at a time, to be present for whatever is right in front of us. In a noisy life, the cup gives us one small place to breathe ;)

📌 Taiwan Tea Fact｜The sweetness in Taiwanese high mountain tea isn’t sugar—it comes naturally from dramatic day–night temperature shifts.
💡If today’s tea or story reminded you of something, share your moment in the comments.
Same place, next cup. See you tomorrow✨

01/12/2025

🎄 YuanCha Advent Calendar – Day 1

🌿 Tea of the day｜Lala Mountain Wild Oolong
🍃 Flavor Wheel｜floral, fresh greens, crisp fruit, alpine breeze, light roast

🌟 Sipping Diary｜Today, we finally unwrapped the YuanCha box together. I’d love to invite you to pause for just a few seconds — What was in your mind at that moment? Were you thinking about work, the to-do lists, the next meeting… or did you allow yourself a brief space to simply be — to notice the aroma, the warmth, the gentle way the tea slips into your mouth and the way your body responds to it? That quiet awareness — mindfulness.

First day of December, first sip of Lalamountain (Lalashan) wild oolong. This tea grows in a quiet green valley — bathed in strong sunlight during the day, wrapped in soft mist in the afternoon, sharing its home with countless other plants. In this mingled ecosystem, it develops its own rhythm, its own quiet melody. As I watched the leaves slowly unfurl, I was reminded of something simple yet comforting: we, too, can open at our own pace.

Not rushed.
Not compared.
Just gently, steadily, in our own time.

With every sip, I could feel the tea carrying the mountain’s breath — a calm persistence, a soft clarity. And in that moment, I sensed a small shift inside me, a reminder that presence doesn’t need to be grand or dramatic. Sometimes, it is just noticing one sip. One breath. One unfolding.

Here’s to beginning December with a little softness — and to meeting ourselves, just as the tea leaves do, quietly and naturally.

If this moment resonates with you, stay with us on this slow tea journey — where each cup is a gentle way back to yourself.

📌 Taiwan Tea Fact｜Over 70% of Taiwan’s tea gardens are located in mountainous regions.
💡What did this cup bring to you today? Feel free to share—your insight might inspire someone else.
✨Same place, next cup. See you tomorrow✨

30/11/2025

🌿 YuanCha Advent Calendar — A Little Invitation Before We Begin

Dear followers and tea friends—those I’ve met in person and those I’ve connected with online—thank you for welcoming YuanCha into your daily life. A few months ago, YuanCha was only an idea, a small dream I held close to my heart. I wanted not only to bring high-quality Taiwanese tea into your cup, but also to invite each of us to experience tea as something beyond a beverage. Tea can be a drink, a hobby, a habit, or a lifestyle—but it can also be something more. What I cherish most is the simple, genuine connection that tea brings into our lives. Whether it’s a quiet moment alone or a conversation shared with someone else, tea gives us a way to slow down and reconnect—with ourselves, with others, and with the present moment. That, to me, is the heart of YuanCha.

🫖 An invitation to slow down and savour

Starting tomorrow at 20:00, I’ll be sharing the Tea of the Day—along with a flavour wheel, a Sipping Diary, and a daily Taiwan Tea Fun Fact to bring warmth, discovery, and ritual to your December.

💬 You’re invited to share your tea moments

Feel free to comment each day with your brewing, tasting, or reflections. Tea becomes even more meaningful when it’s experienced together. See you tomorrow,for the first cup of our 24-day journey. 🌿✨

26/11/2025

Looking for a warm and unique Christmas gift?
This year, we created a limited-edition Advent Calendar filled with 24 different teas — from Taiwanese high-mountain oolongs to elegant black teas and well-being teas. Plus, there are a few tea-related surprises inside each box. 🎁

Each day from Dec 1 to Dec 24 reveals:
✔ a new tea
✔ a unique flavor experience
✔ a moment of calm for winter
✔ a small ritual to slow down

Perfect as a gift, or as a daily December treat for yourself.
Make your December warm, calm, and beautifully slow — one cup at a time. 🍵✨

🎁 Limited quantity — now available for order.
We ship within the EU.
👉 DM to order

27/09/2025

Hi everyone! I’m so happy to finally introduce myself.

I’m a tea lover, and what I love to do is simple: to brew a cup of good tea with warmth and hospitality. I truly cherish the opportunity to talk with each of you during the tea workshop or tea events.

To me, this is more than just work—it’s a way of life. Every time I brew and every time I share, it’s a moment filled with joy and connection. I believe a good cup of tea can bring a moment of peace and a sense of belonging to your day (and to my day as well, haha)!

This is my passion, and I’m so happy to be sharing this beautiful journey with all of you.

I can’t wait to see you in person and brew a cup of tea for you. Until then, talk to you soon!

YuanCha

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