Chapter 122 Maybe It’s Not About Tea

Chapter 122 Maybe It’s Not About Tea

The pigtailed boy had an unpleasant expression. He was silent for a long time before he found his voice again. He said sharply, "What's the point of your eloquent words? Tea is just a drink. If it doesn't taste good, no matter how much you say, it still doesn't taste good! We are all fools. If it doesn't taste good, why would we force ourselves to drink it? It's not like we have a masochistic tendency!"

Although what he said was unpleasant to hear, a large number of people around him actually agreed with it.

Many teas taste bitter and astringent when brewed, and some even have a sour taste. They feel that drinking this kind of stuff is asking for trouble, so they don't like to drink tea.

Su Xing looked at the uncovered covered bowl on their table. The tea leaves inside were still soaking in the soup and had already turned a deep red color.

It would be strange if this tea tasted good...

She looked at the boy with pigtails and said bluntly, "Some teas don't taste good when brewed. Maybe it's not the tea that's the problem, but the way you brew it is wrong. Of course, it doesn't taste good."

The pigtailed man sneered, "If the tea doesn't taste good, you put the blame on the customer and say that the customer made it wrong?? Is that how you do business?! It's just making tea, and all you use are tea leaves and water, what's right and wrong?!"

Su Xing said, "Stewed rice is just rice and water, how come some people can make it soft, sticky and chewy? And some people can make it so half-cooked that it's hard to eat?"

The pigtailed man: "..."

He felt that the girl in front of him was deliberately making up stories to argue with him! But he couldn't find any logical loopholes in her words to fight back!

Su Xing said, "How about this, I will use the same tea you ordered, which is Dianhong, and brew it for you. No, I will brew it for all the guests at your table. You can try it and see how the same tea tastes different when brewed in different ways."

After a pause, she added, "Don't worry, I won't charge you more."

At worst, she can pay for this bath.

Before the pigtailed boy could speak, the girl in white nodded and said, "Okay, okay! Then give us a dip!"

The guy with a crew cut and the girl in blue, "…"

The boy with pigtails gave the girl in white a black face, and complained with his eyes: Which side are you on?

But in order not to lose face, he had to nod his head, "Okay! Go ahead and make it! I want to see how delicious your brew is!"

Some tourists around were about to leave, but at this moment they stopped and waited for Su Xing to make tea with curiosity.

Su Xing was just about to turn around to get the tea and tea sets when he saw Su Yu coming over with a bunch of things in his arms, looking excited!

"Sister, I've got the tea set and tea leaves! Go ahead and make some!"

She put the things on the table and took away the tea sets that the man with pigtails and others had used so that they wouldn't take up space.

However, I don't know whether she did it intentionally or unintentionally, but she only left the teacup with the ruined tea inside...

Su Xing sat down gracefully, and calmly began to boil water and prepare tea...

She explained while operating.

She did not make tea according to the standard movements and steps of the tea artist exam. It is enough as long as there are no mistakes in etiquette and tea-making methods. There is no need to pay too much attention to the performance form when drinking tea. The main thing is to make the tea delicious and not be disrespectful.

Su Yu brought the teapot directly.

Su Xing used a teaspoon to take out the tea leaves and put them into the teapot, saying, "It is best not to use your hands when taking tea, because tea leaves have strong adsorption properties, which will absorb the odor and sweat on your hands onto the tea leaves, accelerating the deterioration of the tea in the teapot, and it is also unhygienic. The amount of black tea should not be too much. This covered bowl has a capacity of about 130ml, so 3-4 grams of tea is enough."

She showed the dried tea to several guests.

"This is a Yunnan red pine needle tea. The raw material is not very old. It is made of one bud and two leaves. It can be regarded as a staple tea. However, it has a rich aroma and sweet taste after it is brewed."

The boy with pigtails curled his lips. Sweet and mellow? He just wanted to see how she could make it sweet!

The electric ceramic kettle boils water very quickly. After the water boils, Su Xing starts to scald the cups and sanitary ware.

She washed all the tea sets, including the covered bowls, teacups, and fairness cups, with hot water.

When washing tea cups, hold the cup with a tea clip, rinse it slowly in the tea washer, then gently wipe the bottom of the cup on a tea towel before distributing it to each guest.

Su Xing put the dry tea into the still hot covered bowl, covered it with a lid, and picked it up and shook it up and down.

She said: "After the covered bowl is scalded with hot water, the heat of the bowl wall can be used to shake the aroma, which is a way to stimulate the aroma of dry tea."

After a few seconds, she opened the lid of the bowl, and a rich aroma of honey and potato immediately wafted out!

"It smells so good..." the girl in white exclaimed.

The boy with a crew cut and the girl in blue also looked surprised.

The pigtailed man's face became worse and worse...

Tourists nearby could even smell the fragrance and couldn't help but sniff hard...

Su Xing handed the bowl cover to the girl in white and said with a smile: "Sister, you can smell the fragrance."

Nowadays, very few people use smelling cups, but smelling the tea in a covered bowl is still something many tea lovers like to do.

The girl in white took the bowl and smelled it, praising: "This smell is so sweet..."

Su Xing said: "The characteristic of black tea is that it is sweet. No matter what kind of black tea it is, or what grade it is, as long as it is not low-quality tea with problems in quality or craftsmanship, it will definitely be sweet when brewed well."

Many of the tourists around showed doubtful expressions.

Because the black tea they have drunk is basically bitter and astringent!

Now some people actually say that all brewed black tea is sweet? ?

Is this possible...

Su Xing took the bowl lid that the girl in white handed back to him and put it on the lid holder.

At this time, the water temperature displayed on the base of the electric ceramic kettle had been cooled to 90 degrees, and Su Xing picked up the instant teapot.

"You can't use 100-degree boiling water to brew black tea. The water temperature should be below 95 degrees. The specific water temperature needs to be controlled according to the variety and grade of the tea. Generally speaking, small-leaf shrub tea usually has a lower water temperature than large-leaf arbor tea. Tea with more buds also has a lower water temperature than tea with more leaves. For example, Jin Jun Mei, a pound of Jin Jun Mei has about 80 buds. That kind of very delicate black tea, the water temperature is best controlled at around 85- degrees."

Su Xing explained while slowly pouring water into the covered bowl. She chose the fixed-point water pouring method.

"If you want to make black tea taste good, pouring water is crucial. If you pour water directly on the tea leaves, the polyphenols in the tea leaves will be released too quickly and excessively, making the tea bitter. In this way, pour water along the wall of the covered bowl with a slow and thin stream of water, allowing the water to gradually soak into the tea leaves..."

After she poured the water, she quickly picked up the covered bowl, poured the tea into the fairness cup, shook it gently, and then poured it into the tea washing machine filled with waste water.

"This is tea washing. Black tea, dark tea, Pu'er tea, oolong tea and other teas can all be washed for the first brew, but high-quality teas do not need to be washed, because many people think that washing tea wastes the essence of high-end tea."

Su Xing quickly made a second cup of tea, which came out almost immediately after being put into water, and then poured into the fairness cup.

"Whether black tea tastes good or not, there is another very important point, that is, you can't let the cup sit for a long time! It is best to brew the tea immediately after the first brewing. For a durable tea, the tea can be brewed in seconds in the first two or three brews. For each subsequent brew, the brewing time will be about five seconds longer than the previous one..."

She picked up the fairness cup and distributed the brewed tea to the boy with pigtails and four others.

She made a gesture of invitation, "You can drink it now, try it."