What is Blooming tea? basically blooming tea is a small hard dried ball of tea leaves (about the size of a large marble) inside of which are dried flowers the decorative or flowering or blossoming tea bundles as these are all names used interchangeably for blooming tea have been sewn together with either cotton or silk threads. When these tea balls are immersed in near boiling water the dried flowers swell and expand breaking free from their little tea leaf jail cells to reveal in most cases a beautiful miniature floral display in your teapot. Although any kind of tea can be used and is used to form these tea balls most commonly it is found that green tea is used. There is controversy over how old tea in this form actually is; some believe it is an ancient tea art dating back centuries while others believe it was invented just to be introduced as a new product the Chinese Tea houses could market to the western world.
Whether you believe flowering or blooming tea to be a new tea invention introduced only a few years ago or you choose to believe the tea legends and folklore stories that many blooming tea bundles come packaged with encouraging us to believe it is of more ancient origin dating back many centuries. It is entirely your own choice ,what ever the history of blooming tea you prefer to believe is immaterial, blooming tea is still a small adventure into beauty, peace and tranquility, a surprise in a teapot. Flowering or Blooming tea are the names by which this tea marvel are more commonly known although it does have several others it is often served after dinner parties not only as a digestive aid but as a conversation starter which it is most certainly particularly if there is one in the group who has never seen blooming tea perform before most are spell bound as soon as they see the flowers begin to emerge after the tea ball has been dropped into the hot water.
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