West African green tea culture
A 1953 publicity photo showing what the bulk packaging used to look like for export of gunpowder tea to Morocco, taken from the April 1955 issue of China Reconstructs, an English-language political magazine. What was "501-G2216", I wonder- part of the original grading scheme, maybe?
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While I don't think it's true today, for a time there was also demand for Japanese tea in this style in the form of guricha. I'd need to look around for a source, but I heard this style of tea was first developed during the Great Depression to find an alternate market for Japanese green tea after demand slumped in the U.S., and that it had a minor boom during the postwar years due to the turbulent situation of green tea in China at the time.
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This box of green tea (pagod) are the best popular in west africa and maghreb. All desert people (touaregs) used this. Also this is the typical seed used to make maroccan mint tea.
Nowadays, the premium brand of chinese green tea in this country is called 'Sultan seed". Look at this link : https://www.pause-au-naturelle.com/the- ... -marocain/
Regarding color of tea, Sultan seed made the mint tea so pleasant.
Nowadays, the premium brand of chinese green tea in this country is called 'Sultan seed". Look at this link : https://www.pause-au-naturelle.com/the- ... -marocain/
Regarding color of tea, Sultan seed made the mint tea so pleasant.