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Time Out
04-08-2025
- Entertainment
- Time Out
Wuyi Mountain tea tasting menu at Lai Ching Heen
From now to September 21, Regent Hong Kong's two-Michelin-starred and two Black Pearl Diamond restaurant, Lai Ching Heen, is offering an exclusive six-course lunch menu ($1,398 per person) paired with artisanal Chinese teas. Diners can expect to enjoy exquisite Cantonese dishes, each complemented with a premium tea sourced from the Wuyi Mountains in Nanping. The tasting menu kicks off with a portion of sparkling Da Hong Pao with delicate notes of white peach and red muscat to wake your taste buds, followed by Zheng Shan Xiao Zhong – Lychee from Miles Away, an aromatic black tea, served alongside a chef's selection of dim sum and steamed scallop with tofu, egg white, and zucchini. Then, dishes like wok-fried bamboo shoots with shrimp sauce, salt-grilled Kagoshima Wagyu, and Inaniwa noodles with garoupa fillet in fish bouillon will be paired with the floral and fruity Unbelievable – Shuijngui rock tea. Lai Ching Heen's tea-centric menu wraps up with a dessert of chilled yellow fungus featuring delightful add-ins like salted wild tangerine, mixed nuts, and chestnuts. This refreshing full stop to the meal comes with a da hong pao tea pastry with aged tangerine peels and rock sugar-stewed Sicilian lemon, and is sure to be a delightful end to your culinary journey.
India.com
18-05-2025
- Lifestyle
- India.com
7 Facts About Tea You Didn't Know
Anaika Sohal May 17, 2025 Every tea, whether green, black, white, oolong or pu-erh tea, originates from camellia sinensis; only the processing of them makes the difference. After water, tea is considered to top the global beverage list and beats coffee by a wide margin. On average, black tea contains about half the caffeine of coffee, which makes it a gentle pick-me-up. Legend says that it was when in Chinese Emperor Shen Nong was boiling water, leaves blew it was then that tea was discovered, around 2737 BCE. Especially pu-erh tea from Yunnan, China, which is fermented and can improve in flavors over decades. Very rare teas like Da Hong Pao or Panda Dung Tea can almost cost up to one thousand dollars per kilogram due to their rarity. You will be amazed to know that Butterfly pea flower tea shifts from blue to purple with a splash of lemon because of its pH-sensitive pigments. Read Next Story
