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Largest *Matcha Factory in the World
*If you consider matcha produced from shaded Chinese-grown tencha as matcha.
In this episode, cohosts Ryan and Zongjun (Sam) report from Tongren, Guizhou, after touring Guicha and driving another hour into the mountains to see the tea fields. Topics range from EU compliance testing and poverty alleviation economics, to high mountain matcha grown above 1,000 meters, to the made-up choreography of Song dynasty diancha and the 70:30 foam to liquid ratio their host insisted on.
They also get into why Japanese tencha equipment makers are the quiet winners of the matcha boom, and why the commodity…
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