Social media has turned traditional Japanese matcha into a commercial trend, though its roots lie in Zen Buddhism. A scholar ...

YANGON | Xinhua | As the old Myanmar saying goes, “Mango is the best fruit and tea is the best leaf.” For centuries, tea ...

Long before a shipment of tea ends up at Jeff Cleary’s door, it is carefully harvested on a small farm in Taiwan. The leaves are hand-picked, sliced from the plant with razor blades strapped to a ...

Chinese tea culture, with its rich history existing since before the third century, has always been a lifelong passion for Tian Tian and Zining Chen. The Rochester-based chain, which specializes in ...

Brandon Friedman, left, and Terrence Kamauf have launched Rakkasan Tea Company in Dallas, which imports rare teas from post-conflict countries like Vietnam, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Rwanda. Louis DeLuca / ...

Maggie Xue is on a mission to make tea culture more accessible in the United States with her company Us Two Tea, an Asian tea brand that she says provides the best “farm to cup” experience. Us Two Tea ...

Pulling low wooden stools out from under a short square table, a group of longyi-clad men sits down at an open-air tea shop in downtown Yangon, Myanmar. One man makes a kiss-kiss noise and calls out ...

Eighth-century Chinese sage T'ien Yi-heng said tea is useful, among other things, for forgetting the din of the world. It's rising popularity suggests there might be something rather timely about that ...