God destines you to do something that you don’t have a hint about – I was going to be associated with a large correction in Indian tea scenario – to plant tea in non-tradional tea growing areas – which swelled to its doom but our zoom to fame. It was 1989 when many tea companies…
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One fine Sunday morning back in 1973, someone asked me “Will you join tea?” – I almost fell down from a tree as I didn’t know where tea is grown and rather I was furious at the thought because I thought I was educated enough not to work in a tea shop ♥️🤭🦆🌹 1973年一个静好的周日清晨,有人问我,“你愿意从事茶行业么?” 听完我几乎要从树上摔了下来,因为我当时都不知道茶是怎么种出来的。而且让我恼火的是,作为一个受过良好教育的人,我有足够的理由不去一间茶叶店工作❤🤭🦆🌹…
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Siliguri is world’s biggest tea centre handling one billion kilos of tea per annum and Tea Board of India is the government body monitoring it’s function. On 8th February 2020 in an inaugural function Chairman made above observation – “we are proud of you”. In 2016 in Shizouka inaugural ceremony we were awarded a Gold…
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This morning’s pot o’ copper. Or rather … this afternoon’s. I didn’t get up until the crack of 1PM. The last couple of days have been unusually social. A part of me thought I should put forth the effort to be less hermitic. The rest of me is not used all the activity. I slept…
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As a family cycle the batton has to be passed and in my case it proved to be easy because the family grew togather. My three kids got early education in schools in our vicinity only making the bond stronger. My elder daughter Mayuri later settled in Oslo since 2002 after higher education in America…
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It was five years later in 2009 when I started in Japan and I am here…our exposure to China started in 2004 which made us understand value addition to tea by properly packaging and presenting: Until a tea is not brewed and served properly it can’t be enjoyed and unless it reaches right places we…
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China Radio decided to launch a documentary made on our tea life coiciding with the visit of their President Xi Jinping during October 2019 and we were happy. What they were projecting was that how Chinese culture matters to an outsider for the understanding of tea making and film maker Juan very powerfully illustrated it…
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https://teaepicure.com/black-fusion-doke/都珂 based on the English spelling, 珂also means a gem stone similar as Jade. 都 meand “All” in English – Doke in Chinese means “all jade” if written in this way. lachen lake water theory Teesta starts from these high altitude lakes near China border and Doke gets this water because of these newly established…
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Prepared with a tea and to serve it to the world we now embark upon our next step of presenting the wares to the tea world. Grown in Bihar at Doke and packed in Bengal it takes on the flavours of Darjeeling and goes to the entire world thru the channels of Lochan. It took…
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