Find your cup of Chinese green tea

Start with one small pack and a repeatable recipe. Huang Shan Mao Feng is worth considering if you want a mild cup, but mildness is not guaranteed: the source feedback also includes weak cups and bitterness after long steeps. Our Mao Feng review explains that tradeoff before you buy.

Check the leaf weight, water volume, temperature and steep time against the instructions for your exact tea. If you left the leaves in the cup, separate them before drinking. Try a shorter steep first and change one variable at a time; our Dragon Well brewing guide gives a worked example rather than one recipe for every green tea.

Yes. TeaVivre lists Longjing, Mao Feng and Bi Luo Chun as cold-brew candidates. Our cold-brew guide uses a measured refrigerator method. For a faster drink, choose hot-brewed iced tea. These leaf-tea methods should not be carried over automatically to dried flower or fruit infusions.