Living as a Foreigner in Chengdu, A Texan’s Journey with Gongfu Tea [Teatime with Jesse Ep - 4]
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- Опубликовано: 26 июл 2024
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This is a special episode of Tea Time with Jesse because we’re in front of a ⚡️LIVE AUDIENCE ⚡️ at West China Teahouse in Austin, Texas @westchinatea
Major thank you to @SoHanFan for hosting the podcast at West China Tea House! In this episode, Jesse and So Han chat about Chengdu, working and living in China as a foreigner, and opening a teahouse in Texas.
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00:40 Meet So Han
02:23 White Dew Tea
05:05 Life in Chengdu
07:00 Performing in China / Enchilada Grande
09:25 Financial Freedom
10:25 Napping at Work
11:40 Traffic Suggestions
12:09 A Sense of Community
13:41 Fighting over the Bill
16:10 Meeting Duidui / Ancient Tree Tea
17:27 Ancient Tree Pu’er
20:20 Wet vs. Dry Stored Pu’er
21:00 So Han’s Tea Journey
22:38 Tea Market vs. Grocery Store Teas
24:23 Hidden Peak Teahouse / Making Tea in College
26:05 So Han’s First Tea Farm Experience
27:40 From Tea Enthusiast to Building a Tea Company
28:55 American Tea Misconceptions
30:22 Chinese Tea Culture
31:50 Lightning Round
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The ultimate tea youtube crossover, what a treat
Sohan is cool. My grandmother brought back tea from Hong Kong in '69, I fell in love with Chinese tea because of her. There's nothing else like it. Thanks for the podcast Jesse.
Great to see two of my RUclips tea people together, and so happy to hear the shoutout to Hidden Peak Teahouse in Santa Cruz. Local treasure!
Definitely the best episode yet! We need to see more of So Han!
AWESOME.. Another famous Tea Master. So good to see you both together!!
Loving seeing you have so much fun Jesse and absolutely killing it! LIVE STUDIO AUDIENCE!! Onwards and upwards my man!!
The collab I've been waiting for ☺️ y'all are my main online tea teachers on RUclips ❤ love ya both!
I was so exited to see this collap! Thanks guys!
Chears from France, I'm fond of both of you So Han and Jesse. Thank so much for all the things you have taught to me.
I love you two together! This was the best, please do more!
I just got my first subscription box and am enjoying the White Dew White Tea with this episode! Thank you for all the content you have put out and introducing myself and others to what real tea can be.
I'm looking forward to sharing cups of tea with friends and trying more teas from your selection. And I'll need to get myself down to West China Tea House! (Texan in close proximity to Austin).
Obligatory howdy to you!
I loved every second of this video! Thanks Jesse and So Han!
Ah man, your content is so refreshing. I love your passion for tea, good conversation and laughs.
Lmao, saying welcome to Sohan in his own teahouse 😂
This was a fantastic interview and podcast! It could have been longer, half again as long would not be too much! Please make a Part 2 when you get an opportunity. The similarities between the two of you, your stories, your life path. Bring it on!
Is this setting, the new West China Teahouse, after the move?
What an engaging conversation! Im thoroughly impressed.
SO COOL!!!! Not only did this video drop but I’m also going to be drinking the 2022 thousand year tree wild red tea.
Love your podcasts! Very funny and entertaining
So glad I found your channel, thanks for bringing life back to my love for gongfu cha.
Yoooooo!!!! Fire collab!
Wow! I never would have thought I would have seen West China Tea as a guest with Jesse!
I visited them in Austin last Saturday with my friend for their monthly CommuniTEA event! It was so much fun and the highlight of my month. I got to meet lots of interesting people and as somebody new to pu'er and gongfu cha (thanks to Jesse) I really wanted to go to a shop that specialized in brewing tea gongfu style. It was a great opportunity to learn about (and taste) some amazing tea! I loved the sticky rice shou pu'er while I was there and it's possibly one of my new favorites!
I just want to say that while it's not Gong Fu Cha or anything like that, your videos convinced me to buy myself some lovely whole leaf Ceylon tea and overall put more care into my tea making process! I live in a country with terrible exchange rate so while buying something from your web store is not an option for now, I definitely love the peaceful content and I'll actually experiment with brewing the tea I have in small intervals like you do!! Thanks and keep up the good stuff!!!
This was a treat to see live. Thank you for serving us tea and not showing us in the video
This was really great to watch, but I’m wondering why post an edited version instead of the full podcast? The full conversation (which I found on Spotify) is much more engaging than the chopped up version, and I would have loved to watch it here instead of just listening to it. Either way though, I’m loving this collaboration. I’ve learned a lot from you both, so seeing you together was great.
Grats on 100k! Holy that was fast!
It happened slowly, then all at once
Jessie got worried about his comedian career in china, when the guest spoke about foreigners invited to be on stage without caring about how good they are 😅
This was a huge problem in my career, it is very hard to succeed when people in industry think you got where you are because of your skin, and because they expect so little of you, there are no chances to show you actually do good work since they only write scripts assuming people that look like you are prop pieces
So great u see it in this open way, thanks for answering 🙏🏽
Love your channel.
Wooo caught the tail end of this one
This is amazing I'm so happy to watch after just drinking some Jin Jun Mei, I'm trying with all my might to not immediately buy everything on the site but I may just have to buy something because I do not wanna run out of this amazing tea !
I love the Jin jun mei 😊😊 enjoy and try another tea sometime 🎉
Great videos Jesse
Great episode! The first chinese tea I tried I ordered from west china tea. I'm looking forward to ordering more of the moonlight white tea I think it was called and I also really wana try your white dew white tea it looks great
Yessssssss!!!!!!!!
Great video
If you are ever on the East Coast, in Washington DC there is a place called Ching Ching Cha which is a very traditional gongfu cha style tea house. I think its one of only a few on the east coast. Recently, they mopved into a smaller location - great selection and relatively inexpensive.
awesome edpisode!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wish we had teahouses like this in dfw!!
🫖🍵 Please Come to Houston. I'd love to meet Chunky Horse! 🐎
Oooo if you come to the Seattle area let us know!
So happy I stumbled on this channel. Thanks for doing this Jesse. Love all your content and learning so much without having to schlep to Asia.
What are your thoughts on David’s Tea. (Might only be in Canada and New York).
Generally speaking when you go to a new city, where do you buy your tea? I go to a big retailer (David’s) but think I’ll score better tea in some dive in Chinatown which is great in Toronto.
Have you been up to CN tower?
I need more
You don’t mess with the Sohan.
It’s cool and a bit funny too
Me how they treat the tea and being a connoisseur of it like me and my friends are with weed. From different types of buds and their pheno types too different types of hash or rosin. Also the bongs isnt jus a bong we collect from different artist from all over. It’s actually super similar in some ways
Cracking up I can’t breathe 8:41
I can’t get over the structure used to display the teaware behind you both! Where can I find THAT?
Hi Jesse, any chance you can do a short video about rooibos?
I assume that it is but I would like to put a pretty glaze on the water buffalo tea pet and I wanted to make sure that it was ceramic
Hey neighbor.
Shout out from Round Rock.
Can you make yerba mate in gongfu tea set?
Do you ever do black tea or Indian tea? I’m very curious about other teas!
Hey, I gotta ask, what do you use to store all your looseleaf in? EX, I ordered tea and it was in a plastic bag, with a window. I want to put it in something air/light proof. Got any recommendations?
I grew up in the South drinking Southern style iced tea and it will always be my favorite but it’s not the best for warm/hot tea and sometimes on a cold day, it’s nice to enjoy something besides iced tea.
I’ve gotten into Chai a lot lately, but do you recommend a Chinese tea for one like myself who has certain tastes* already but want to kind of expand on that?
*which is to say, i generally like very strong, very sweet tea.
Hey Jesse,
Could you introduce the writing and the traduction of every chinese word you use when speaking?
So we could understand more and maybe learn a little bit of chinese as we would have the sound the writing (chinese) and traduction.
How many tea sessions is too many in a given day? I find myself craving the tea multiple times a day so I end up doing 2-5 sessions a day. Is that too many? 🤣
Everything is sold out on your website, i guess no tea oranges for me 😢
Where did you learn Chinese !
I studied in school and then also lived in china nine years doing chinese language comedy and tv writing
Now how do I convince you to team up with the dregons treasure in some way? His tea is out of this world (at least according to this tea pleb right here), all loose leaf, and individual bags are hand packed if one wants to try single servings. His store is themed around japanese anime culture (and tea, of course)
Disclaimer: i have no affiliation with the dragons treasure aside from being a fan and enjoying tea. If you say I sent you, he'll probably say "who? I dont even know who that is" 😅 but he's a good dude with good tea, would love to see a collab tea product featuring some chinese/japanese tea in y'all's stores (just one random idea)
Bro how many people in the room? Sounds like 5-10
We had like 30 but we didn’t mic them 😂
You're from New England right? You did a comic relief in Chinese and told the audience that you're from Northeast U.S.
That’s meeee
Since you two lived in China before I’m curious. I don’t mind the idea of spending time in china but I am concerned about censorship to an extent, like either on my laptop, or my phone with media or phone calls to the US, using something like NordVPN to watch RUclips or Google things and stuff like that. I just want to know if I would actually get in trouble for that but with me knowing better I obviously wouldn’t badmouth the government if I was there.
Having a VPN is not a bad idea so you can go on RUclips and check your Gmail, but on a day-to-day basis, you have absolutely nothing to worry about in terms of things that will happen to you because of what you say on the Internet as long as you’re not there specifically to cause problems. You’re far more likely to get hit by a car than get arrested in China for saying something innocuous on WeChat
I have a really stupid question which needs a really precise answer. What is the blackest tea in the world? Google says Assam, but its like doing a surgery with a two-handed sword... Thanks in advance.
Gay
Racist
Why do all the tea bros have lisps lol