Meeilei said that "Good tea requires good tea-pot"

Meeilei wrote the following story which you can appreciate about the art of tea-tasting in the Eastern Asia, especially in Taiwan and Japan. I also need to say that Taiwan produces tea; tea made in Taiwan is the best. I will write more stories about Taiwanese tea in the future.

Here is Meeilei's story about the art of tea-tasting:

When I was back in Taiwan, Ou5 (Jau-Fu at Banciao, Taipei) and I shopped couple of places for tea pots. I was not a serious tea drinker in the past and was not really serious about getting a 'real' tea pot to make a good pot of tea. I thought tea is tea. Quality tea leaves will make good tea. I do have some good tea ; but not those really expensive ones. I would say that they are just the mid-grade. Anyway, in the past, I used coffee pot to make tea at home and I have a $3 tea pot to make tea at work and I was pretty happy with them.

Well, in this trip to Taiwan, I kind of want to get a 'good' tea pot. At least something 'looks like real tea pot' anyway. That's why my brother and I went shopping for tea pot. You can ask Ou5 about this, I bought things here and there at the spur of moment, nothing of major. The only thing I put my mind to was to get tea pot! So, anyway, we went to the 'Flower City' on a weekend and we looked while we were in Shi-Tou when PQ and her boy friend took us there. We also looked around at BanChaiu too. We ended up finding something we both liked (Yes, Ou5 ended up buying one too because he liked it) in BanChiau.

When we were buying the tea pot, the salesperson did mention that tea pot (not just tea leaves alone) will make tea tasting different. At that time, I didn't believe him. I thought, "Well you are the sale man. Of course you would said so. But, when I came back to the U.S. and I made a pot of tea with the same tea leaves I always have and 'wow, it does taste different! and it is BETTER' .

I advise all of you to get a nice tea pot and try it out yourself.

Photo shows some of the tea-pots you can consider to upgrade your art of tea-tasting.