We saw all kinds of Gunpowder and Chunmee - beautiful shiny, tightly rolled Gunpowder, half-Gunpowder grades, various grades of Chunmee with well-formed half-moon shapes and others with more open leaf. ...

Imagine a tea garden right in the heart of the city with a beautiful lake right next to it and restaurants and park space all around it.  Well, that is...

Here are some additional pictures.  Notice the fresh leaf appearance in one picture and the already-forming flat shape in the other.

How is it that some leaf turns out rolled and some flat while others are needle-shaped?  Well, we saw it first-hand when we witnessed the very fine, artisanal manufacture of...