Four Chapters
Four teas, four chapters
Eight teas for thirteen scenes, grouped into four chapters, with Nantou City’s Jin Xuan as the prologue. Start with the flavour you like.
Prologue
100°C
3 g tea bag · 300 ml · water 100°C
Prologue · Jin Xuan
Nantou City is where the journey begins — and where Shan Yu began. It opens the box with a cup of Jin Xuan.
Chapter 1
100°C
3 g tea bag · 300 ml · water 100°C
Dong Ding Oolong
Dong Ding oolong is Nantou’s most representative roasted tea. Its ripe-fruit aroma and roasted sweetness only come through fully with boiling water.
Chapter 2
100°C
3 g tea bag · 300 ml · water 95–100°C
Si Ji Chun & High Mountain Oolong
Teas that keep the leaf’s own floral fragrance and clear sweetness — easy to enjoy every day.
2-1 Mingjian · Zhuoshui Station→
A railway laid for power brought a whole valley of four-season tea.
2-2 Caotun · Living Craft Center, NTCRI→
Where a craft became something to teach.
2-3 Ren’ai · Wuling→
The highest point on Taiwan’s roads, 3,275 metres.
2-4 Xinyi · Tataka Giant Hemlock→
At the gateway to Yushan stands an old hemlock.
Chapter 3
95°C
3 g tea bag · 300 ml · water 95°C
Flower-Scented Teas
Fresh flowers and tea are layered together so the tea slowly takes in the fragrance. Flower and tea in balance — neither takes over.
3-1 Puli · Paper Dome→
A paper church from Kobe stands again in Puli.
3-2 Zhongliao · Xianfeng Sun Moon Cave→
One man, ten years — a sun and a moon carved into the mountain.
3-3 Guoxing · Nuomi (Sticky Rice) Bridge→
A bridge bound with sticky rice, still standing after eighty years.
3-4 Jiji · Jiji Station→
The cypress station fell once, and was rebuilt just as it was.
3-5 Zhushan · Lianxing Temple→
Zhushan’s Mazu temple — shaken, restored, still here.
Chapter 4
90°C
3 g tea bag · 300 ml · water 90°C
Sun Moon Lake Black Tea
Yuchi has grown black tea since the Japanese era and is known as the home of Taiwanese black tea.
