Tea over in China is like coffee over in Singapore, there are coffee shops wheareas we have tea house in China.
Tea house unlike coffee shop can be in places like garden ... where u can drink your tea the whole day and forget about everything.
All i know about tea was the few variety like pu er, jasmine, tie guan yin ......?
Do you know there are floral tea here too .... unlike the western floral tea where you have rose, camomile etc
The resturant use here use a combination of flower and tea leaves to make tea ......
One which i came across was osmanthus (remember gui hua) with tie guan yin, the fragrance of osmanthus and the flavour of tea was just great .... a change from the usual tea
Another tea is chrysanthemum tea which many locals are aware of, usually we would put in sugar. Over in china they do not put sugar in the tea ...
Sugar is being replaced by natural sweetener - wolfberries. It addes natural sweets and yet does not affect the taste buds.
These floral tea was brewed in a glass pot, and there is a sieve made of glass where u will put your osmanthus and tea leaves.
The art of drinking that is not to allow the leaves to soak, in other words remove the sieve once u have brewed the tea. Use the sieve again when you need to brew another pot
When it come to tea i am still new, just sharing with you what i saw when i dine ......