Fujian Tea pioneer on Beijing's famous tea street

The famous brand Luxueya brought Fujian's tea culture to Beijing. They put their shop on Beijing's famous tea street-Maliandao, the biggest collection of tea shops in northern China. This street is near the Beijing Hongkun International Hotel.

However, when their Beijing branch first opened in 1997, Maliandao was not a major shopping place. But after 10 years of hard work and development, Luxueya grew perfectly along with the tea street itself.

Their tea is grown in the Taimu Mountains back in Fujian province. They own a great plantation that covers many acres, and their organic green tea, white tea, jasmine tea, and black tea is very famous.

Their white tea is very good. It is a kind of uncured and unfermented tea. You can select different types depending on your special taste. If you don't care about the package, they carry loose tea leaves for comparatively lower prices.

Healthier Body, Better Life -- A Must-Add To Your Diet

We all hope to live a naturally healthy life, maybe you have tried many methods to achieve this goal, but after tens of even hundreds of tries, all of them turn out to be a waste.

All this can and will be changed if you visit GuiShi Tea Shop in Beijing. It's very close to Jiangxi Grand Hotel-Beijing.

With one of the best green tea selections in China, this shop is famous among dieters. The tea, grown and baked in GuiShi's own plantation high in the mountains, are rich in polyphenols and are proven effective in losing weight and keeping healthy.

Also, their tea is original, organic, and free from pollution, so it is all healthy and safe for dieters.

Some customers drink tea as a quick way to shoot up their energy level.

The shop owner even told me that their tea helps destroy harmful waste in the body and enhances metabolism.

Besides these scientific benefits, their tea is also very tasty.

After spending a lot of time finding the best way to brew their tea, the shop owner will show you this method for free!

Drink great green tea, get more benefits. Do you want to skip this fantastic way to live a better life?

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Purple clay from the county of Yixing is considered the best natural material for making tea sets in China. I found one shop near the Beijing Hongkun hotel that has a great selection of these teapots at reasonable prices.

Their purple clay teapots can release your tea's aroma and keep it from going tasting bad better than any other material. So many people in China like to use them.

On my visit to Chayuan Tea City at the south end of Maliandao Tea Street near the Guohong Hotel, I found some user-friendly purple clay tea cups in a shop (No. A2-10) named Qingyi, which literally means "Affection" in English. I thought it was such a cute name for a shop!

I stopped at the shelves and took in the sight of their amazing tea sets. In the end, a series of Chinese Zodiac animal tea cups caught my eye. Because of my strong curiosity, I asked a lot of questions about the cups, and the kind assistant told me that all of them were designed by the shop keeper, Mr. Xu.

I picked up a tea cup with a lovely image, a delicate small rooster standing on the lid. When I opened the lid of the tea cup, I found that there was a purple clay strainer inside! And there was another miniature rooster standing there.

You can pick it up and put the tea leaves in the bottom of the cup. Because of its tiny holes, water can pass through it and fill up the cup, and there's no need to worry about drinking any floating tea leaves.

All the prices of their tea cups are very agreeable, all less than $20. The price of the teapots depends on the quality. And you can also find a lot of different kinds of accessories for a tea ceremony, like little tea pets, and some famous Chinese tea too.

One of the shopkeepers said he was once a Beijing tour guide, so he can speak English. So it's a great idea to come here and learn about the history of Chinese tea and teaware, all while buying some great gifts!

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