Interesting tv drama about Tea in Taiwan

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Thu Dec 02, 2021 7:03 pm

Just started to watch this last night: Gold Leaf (https://www.netflix.com/tw-en/title/81516613)

A pretty well made period drama following the events of a tea merchant. It uses Taiwanese, Hakka, Japanese, Mandarin and English, so a little background knowledge is probably needed to fully appreciate all the details of post-war Taiwan society it depicts, but still very watchable!

It also uses quite a few historic locations all over Taiwan, eg the Daxi Tea factory(now reopened as a museum) and others. They even found some better quality foreign actors to play the parts of certain characters (as opposed to another recent period drama from Taiwan, Seqalu) which has a good story and setting but where a main part is played by a terrible actor/model actually).

The teas in question should be from the North Taiwan (Oriental beauty, Baozhong, Greens etc.), the setting of the Tea company is in Hsinchu.

Anyways, very rare to see something mainly focused on tea – enjoy!
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Fri Dec 03, 2021 12:45 am

Not coming up on searches of Netflix in the US....bummer.
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Fri Dec 03, 2021 2:27 am

debunix wrote:
Fri Dec 03, 2021 12:45 am
Not coming up on searches of Netflix in the US....bummer.
Oh! Maybe not released for the region yet…
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Sat Dec 04, 2021 1:10 am

Thanks for the tip, looks interesting. It seems to released for Taiwan only, had hoped either Hong Kong or Singapore would have access but nope. Maybe they'll broaden the availability after a while.
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Balthazar wrote:
Sat Dec 04, 2021 1:10 am
Thanks for the tip, looks interesting. It seems to released for Taiwan only, had hoped either Hong Kong or Singapore would have access but nope. Maybe they'll broaden the availability after a while.
HK will never release it I’m afraid. The new “security laws” will not allow it. Content is not fitting their narrative.
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Sat Dec 04, 2021 11:58 am

Looks interesting. NordVPN has a Taiwanese server connection available - I'll see if I can get it to come up.
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Sat Dec 04, 2021 2:05 pm

What's the name of the show out of interest? The Netflix link doesn't work for me (even with TW VPN). I found "Tea Love" (闪亮茗天 from 2015) but I suspect that's not it :D
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belewfripp wrote:
Sat Dec 04, 2021 11:58 am
Looks interesting. NordVPN has a Taiwanese server connection available - I'll see if I can get it to come up.
did it work?

meanwhile, piracy is an option 🤫 :lol:
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Sat Dec 04, 2021 2:58 pm

I found it, via other means *cough cough* streaming site with eng subtiles.
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pedant wrote:
Sat Dec 04, 2021 2:29 pm
i think this is it: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15678308/
Yes that’s it!
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pedant wrote:
Sat Dec 04, 2021 2:42 pm
belewfripp wrote:
Sat Dec 04, 2021 11:58 am
Looks interesting. NordVPN has a Taiwanese server connection available - I'll see if I can get it to come up.
did it work?

meanwhile, piracy is an option 🤫 :lol:
No, I wasn't able to get it work. Netflix has gotten too skilled at preventing region block circumvention, it seems. I did find some cool Taiwanese horror stuff I'm probably going to watch, though.
klepto wrote:
Sat Dec 04, 2021 2:58 pm
I found it, via other means *cough cough* streaming site with eng subtiles.
Yeah, I also found a site that has it. Lots of pop-ups, though, and my anti-virus software doesn't like it.
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