Making Cha Gao in Yunnan, China: The Travel-Friendly Tea Resin That Lasts for Months!
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- Опубликовано: 21 ноя 2024
- Learn how to make Cha Gao, a traditional, high-quality Tea Resin made for travelers! This unique, concentrated tea is crafted in handmade woks in China, creating a rich aroma and flavor that lasts up to 6 months. Perfect for tea lovers on the go, Cha Gao is designed to be both convenient and packed with authentic taste. 🌱 Discover the fascinating process behind this ancient tea-making method and bring a piece of China’s tea culture into your daily routine.
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I find it hilarious that you even have to discuss sanitation. The whole time I'm watching I'm thinking "I bet the stuff they're making in that pot is even better than the production facility"
It's the people that make the tea! Making the tea resin! People really think they don't know what they're doing? Hilarious. Thank you for showing us this fascinating process.
@@AviFagan yeah I just don’t want to get sued because there are laws (and we follow them) about foreign food facilities and cleanliness and while I personally drank the homemade resin right down, I don’t want people being like “that isn’t up to code!” Hahaha
I was thinking the same thing. I bet it’s delicious but I understand it can’t be imported.
@@jessesteahouse I'd looooooooove to get my hands on some of that homemade tea resin tho I also get that it'd prolly be a nightmare to try and sell it here in the US -o-
@@snowsiet5475he has an online shop! He imports the teas so he can sell to us! The resin is on his website now!
Makes no sense, it's hot! Water is evaporating, what is growing in that?
Love watching the process and seeing that this comes from an actual craftsperson, not an automated factory
Sister Ai is in charge of our whole line of resins so you’re getting it from a good source 🎉
I am incredibly interested in this commodity! This would be incredibly popular in the southern US🎉
I love listening to this guy speak Chinese he's perfect with it (my gf is Chinese), he even uses the little "hmm"s to acknowledge that he is listening and understanding what she is explaining, and "waa" instead of wow.
This is like pocket soup, but tea! Back in colonial America (and elsewhere in the world at various times I'm sure), you could make or buy soup stock that was boiled down until it was the consistency of leather and then carry that to reconstitute when travelling just like this. (The Townsends channel has a video from a few years back on it that's really interesting)
So thicker than bouillon cubes? Which is concentrated soup/beef/chicken/veggie soup the size of a sugar cube. Didn't know they were doing that so far back. It really is a great idea. Not to mention it actually has quite a few grams of protein. Probably good for back packing, camping etc. Just as long as the salt content isn't ridiculous.
@debbiefox6846 Yeah, the consistency of leather, basically.
@debbiefox6846 ya! It was like a dried out fruit rool up lol. Almost rubbery. Very condensed and let them take months worth of soup base with them on long trips.
its like instant coffee.
@@crusher9z9 That's usually freeze dried (or apparently spray dried) though, if I understand the process right.
This is how visiting and interviewing someone in another country should be. If you have the ability, learn the local language. It can unlock doors you never even knew were there
Significantly easier said than done
There is no inherent ability to learn a language you just do it
"White tea resin" !?! Take my money now.
I was going to stock those, but I tasted them and I think there’s still a little bit of work that needs to be done on refining it. It wasn’t bad, but I felt like the other resins were better and so we picked the ones that were best now, sister Ai is working on Refining the white tea resin process
@@jessesteahouse I would imagine it is hard to balance because white tea is steeped below boiling right
@@jessesteahouseAmazing work by Master Ai here!
@@joecobb7153 It could be so, but I think it would take significantly longer to concentrate it into resin without boiling it.
@@9K_111 Yeah you need to boil I think you would have to have white tea leaves that can take the extra temp only way
My jaw was on the floor when she dropped that tiny bit of resin from the stick into the pot and it became like 5 cups of some of the most beautiful tea I've ever seen, man this is easily the most interesting thing that I've seen this week and now I wanna go to China to get just this
@@SF7PAKISTAN you can get it on my website to direct from the same Tea leaves and the same farmers! But yes, it is a ton of fun to go to China and do it in person
i love how when it's just done reducing, it flows like fresh lava from a volcano. i'm chinese but i learned about tea resin from you. fascinating! thank you for sharing this tradition with the world!
thanks for bringing probably one of the only english videos about tea resin to us english speakers!
she doesnt have to tell me its clean. I would trust her in a heart beat!
dont think she is talking about hygiene, she means its clarity. it isn't cloudy and doesnt contain any small specs of tea leaves.
No chinese is to be trusted ever
It's like tea molasses!
I don't think that doing that, up in the fresh mountain air, is unsanitary- no more so than anyone cooking in their kitchen at home!
Can't wait for your UK warehouse to open 😊
hope it opens soon
This. It's very much rooted in xenophobia
Excuse me, what?
How is this any different than let's say small batch artisinal cheese in the alps?@@Coyoteonthemoon
@@rayvg7709I think they meant concerns about sanitation are rooted in xenophobia?
@IrinaGreenman cause no one has ever gotten sick from stuff made in their local community, right? It's a silly statement. Not wanting to get sick from consuming something has nothing to do with xenophobia.
Man as a person that loves hash finding tea resin is just really cool
i just commented something similar hahhhhh happy holidays
Really admire the respect and attention you have brought to this timeless discipline.
“Last week for you, so we can have a better view while we make tea resin” wow that’s so considerate and wow. I would rather buy the stuff made in the pot though lol.
this was very interesting. Please do more of these documentary videos.
Never heard of tea resin before. Super interesting!
Love these kind of “behind the scenes videos. Keep em up.
Pumped about tea resin in stock.
Stuff is clutch.
Damn, your Mandarin is good. I'm a native speaker and you're using some 10-yuan words that I'd never use in daily life.
Thank you! To you, and everyone featured in the video for sharing a wealth of knowledge!
OMG! I grew up in Malaysia as a german expat and one day, because I was a naughty boy, I stole something from a chinese construction worker, who was repairing something in our house, believing it was a small chocolate candy. It was super bitter and yuck and really hard and I never found out what it was until right now 😂😂😂 I guess that was instant karma for stealing that poor mans tea.
I hope he was watching you eat his tea resin laughing to himself. I would have. Kids are kids and it is so much fun to watch them learn the hard way sometimes.
@johndeerdrew He had many more in a sort of metal tin, he probably never noticed. I was like 6 years old or something like that and that certainly taught me a lesson.
@lars5174 at least you learned. All in all, it was a cheap lesson too. Those are often the most valuable because they keep you from making the expensive mistakes that can ruin you.
That's so neat, a thousands of years old recipe for instant tea! Man, it's so easy to forget that people back then were just as inventive as we are today (broadly speaking, at least), like today's "oh this is going to revolutionize processor manufacturing!" is yesterdays "oh this is going to revolutionize food preservation!"
Sister Ai is honestly so cool
Love the rustic history lesson, showing us the way it was made many decades ago.
I wouldn't mind stirring that pot with that view! Thanks for sharing an interesting video of "how it's made".
As a seriously addicted heavy stoner I really appreciate the versatility of plants things being more mainstraim. I want to try the orange peel one! 😋
Wow amazing!!!! I can’t imagine how wonderful it must be over there with the secenery and the scents
I didn't even realized tea resin even exists. I check online shopping and ordered some. I'm a tea lover and this is way easier than brewing 1.5 liters of tea every 2 days 🤗
Back in 97, I had a bowl that'd gum up like that. Resin, the gift that keeps on giving!
2:28 white tea resin? You had my curiosity now you have my attention
Everyone involved in this video seems genuinely amazing!
I think; this would last without going bad for thousands of years. Like hundreds of years old wine. Beautiful product I am happy to have learned of this.
Bless you all! What a great video!
Amazing Chinese, I am impressed
Reminds me of the wild lettuce resin for medicinal uses. Very fun to see the og way to make tea resin, and that view is incredible! I'd stand there stirring all day
Just ordered the sister Ai tea resin sampler, and coin toad! Boosting for the algorithm 🙌 Love your work, keep it up! 🌻🐝
This is very cool , and just because it was made in a pot is perfectly good. ❤
Very effective advertising. I ordered a pack. If it is to my liking, I will probably go for a subscription. I hope it is as tasty as it is labor intensive.
Thank you, guys.
Wow, that tea is so beautiful, I bet it tastes wonderful!
Im so envious of the company, the view, the cup.... you're awesome man, keep it up! This kind of stuff is so awesome.
I will most definitely be buying both in the near future!!!
I have always wanted to see how tea resin was made! Thank you for this!
I wondered why I woke up drooling this morning. It was bc this video hit the internet. Damn that looks good! I want to try it all
The view from that oven is amazing!!
Wow, that's incredible! I'd rather but what she's making than from a factory setting, tbh, but I understand to get it to the masses, that's difficult without the factory controlled setting.
Thank you for showing The gorgeous side of China.
1:48 It’s interesting when discussing the wall of firewood bc you can see it’s a lot of narrow sticks of only a year or two growth, flitch offcuts, squared bits of lumber, etc. Which are a lot cheaper or flat-out waste products from other industries. From what I’ve seen of the US firewood they burn a lot of more older/mature trees (decades old) felled entirely for firewood which are reflected in their price. Just a cause for thought.
I really want to try this. I love tea and honestly don't make enough of it. I used to have a 4 lb compressed tile of red tea with beautiful patterns in it. It made the best tasting tea but had small metal filings in it... I used a corner of that tile and don't remember where it ended up.
I LOVE the tea resin that's been on your site and can't wait for this! I think tea resin could be the next big thing, to even replace coffee!
I just finally made my first order of the coin/orange sampler! Can’t wait to try Sister Ai’s lovely tea 😊❤
So cool tea resin is a great way to show friends good tea in a way they can see them self using !
Just awesome!
I'm really into tea and I'd never even heard of this. Super interesting
Just signed up for my subscription can't wait! Thanks for the tea, the content, and the culture! It's nice to feel this connection/ community with people around the world especially in these times.
Thanks so much for signing up!!! The subscription makes this whole thing work 🎉
@@jessesteahouse did you lie about the source ? It’s fine even if they cook on the mountain and not a lab. It’s a craft passed through generations and that’s the beauty of it for me personally. 🤷🏽♀️
@@curious-r8t no we are always transparent about the source - we made this on the mountain for fun and to share with everyone online, but there are rules about importing food and we need to follow those and in the USA you can’t sell stuff cooked in a giant wok in china hahah
@@jessesteahouse aw thank you. The video was beautiful and so was the view and the aunty that was making the tea seemed so lovely. Thank you for clarifying it for me.
Fascinating. Thank you. What nice and skillful people
What a cool freaking video! I should really try some of your teas, been an avid watcher of your videos since covid started. Cheers Jesse!
I love the bit of history behind making the tea resin. That it’s not just a « this is how it’s made » video. It gives more meaning behind the resin and makes you think more about the tea while drinking it. I’m looking forward to sharing it with my family when I purchase it ! :D
I have never heard or seen tea resin. But! That is beautiful!!
so interesting thanks for showing and sharing chinese tea culture
This was super cool I absolutely want to try some tea resin
It's almost more like tea 'tar' but I suppose resin sounds better. Very cool to see the process.
The scent must be INSANE there, wow
Very lucky you found those great, kind people
Not really lucky. China is a country full of horrible leaders and great people.
It is so impressive seeing you speak chinese
The production method is surprisingly simple of brewing down to increase concentration that a pot of tea turn into a cream, then paste and eventually like resin.
It probably will be more expensive to do it on your own brewing small quantity for own consumption given the amount of fuel it takes to keep a stove burning for days. Not to mention the manpower involved in arranging shift duty to watch the brew.
Tea resin is always nice to have around
Just ordered some. I bought the tea resin you had on the site before and I wasn’t super into it, but I may not have diluted it enough. I just love the concept and packaging of the tea resin and as someone who likes good tea but is also kinda lazy, I feel like the sampler pack will be fun to try.
find the right dilution for you! It’s all up to your taste, there isnt a specific correct amount to use
Finally the tea hash video 😂💙
My thoughts exactly. Same principle of fire in, fire out.
Tea tar! Fascinating!! 😃
Awesome, awesome documentary, Jesse. Seeing these processes done on site, in the traditional way, by people who are consumate experts and craftsmen, is a huge treat. Many thanks, and a happy belated Halloween! 🎃🎃🎃 EDIT: I would buy the stuff that was made on the mountain, no problem.
This looks so good! I can't wait to taste them all, as soon as the european site is up. But I think it will definately be worth the wait. 😍
We will be opening as soon as we can!
9:27 I WANT THE HOMEMADE ONE
Can’t believe there’s people who see the amount of care put into the tea farms and still prefer a facility processed tea. I get hygiene and stuff, but it’s almost like my grandma made it, it looks better because of the extra human touch
It’s mostly a legal requirement, any food imported to the USA requires the facilities to be run to the same standards of American food facilities. So we just can’t send it unless it was made in proper facility. But as you can see in the video, I personally had no concerns about drinking it!
@@jessesteahouse great stuff!!
I went straight away and got a set, it looks so delicious!!
Imagine being so addictied to tea that you come up with this, I love it xD.
Makes you wonder if more delicate teas like white teas would be better suited to freeze drying than to evaporation over heat 🤔
Wow, this just popped up in my recommendations and I'd never even heard of cha gao before, but I like trying different good teas and doing so while travelling can be difficult. Just ordered some red tea resin to try as well as some equipment and a couple leaf teas that seemed interesting!
enjoy!! hope you like it, subscribe if you want good tea content!
the little history bit was fun, cool to see the process
Just ordered some, can't wait! I'm curious how it compares to freshly-brewed pu erh in terms of the more volatile, higher notes-the kind of thing that I assume would mostly evaporate or oxidize (or caramelize) during the long boiling process. Does resin made from, say, sheng pu erh have a noticeable "cooked" flavor compared to when it's freshly brewed?
Yummm, awesome video
I love seeing the process and learning the history! She mentioned raw tea resin. Is raw tea the fresh leaves? Or maybe puerh before aging?
Buying right now! Your work is amazing :)
@@cirujanagrafica thank you so much for your support!
Seems like you could also make this using vacuum evaporation and you might be able to get a fresher flavor
Yeah just made my first purchase. I really wanted those shou resin you had up, but it got sold out before I could buy some. I'm super happy I waited for these gems. White tea resin?? Whaaaa? Crazy. Gotta have it. I also got the 2019 white tea mini brix. Thanks Jesse. Still getting up the nerve to buy that $100 music of mengsong cake. Maybe some day lol
Cannot wait to give it a try.
I wish we got to see how the tea resin is stored from that big 'ol vat it got made in. Is it just kept in the cooking vessel, or is there a process for removing and wrapping it? Obviously your product made in a facility comes in foil, but like what's traditional?
I want to see the final moulding process too!
Never even heard of tea resin before! Very interesting
I had an interesting idea of using the tea resin, how possible would it be to use the tea resins in icing for a ‘tea cake’? How concentrated do you reckon the tea resin would be in comparison to early grey tea?
That sounds interesting. Depending on what goes into the icing you have in mind I would dissolve it in dairy of some kind. Either make a compound butter with it to use in the icing. You can use a small amount of water in icing or other liquid but it will thin it. If the resin could be dissolved in a tablespoon of water then that's not too much to add into the icing.
That looks amazing 😍
That's so frickin cool!
It's 4am and i desperately need a cup of tea now
Absolutely love your content and what you do and I personally can't wait to be able to afford to try some of the teas you offer. Watching this reminded me a lot of cannabis extraction and the processing that takes place. Wondering if maybe we could develop a new more efficient extraction/concentration technique
Wow that's really cool
Must smell so good
It was unreal
It's gotta be the closest thing you can get to being in the tea without drowning in it. 😂
It seems absolutely like a glorious experience from beginning to end.
... Okay enough! Not done with the video but I need a cup of tea right now
This was awesome
Thank you!! i am looking forword too getting some.
This is fascinating
I want to take a bite of that resin like it's jerky. Looks so tasty
Hey I had a quick question for ya. Are you still planning on doing the Teaism series? Loved the first two episodes and was hoping for more! For a early Christmas present, my wife just bought a full tea set and one of those beautiful stone tables and cant wait to start pouring some tea on my new cat tea pets! Thanks jesse!
Also, this video was amazing. Please more of these style of videos, we are lacking on cool cultural/historical stuff from over east. We need more!
Great gift!! Enjoy your set - yes I have written teaism 3 but I haven’t shot it yet - maybe will shoot it this week. Then I need to edit it haha
@ thanks boss can’t wait! have a good holiday season wish you the best