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Interesting tv drama about Tea in Taiwan
Posted: Thu Dec 02, 2021 7:03 pm
by Bok
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!
Re: Interesting tv drama about Tea in Taiwan
Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2021 12:45 am
by debunix
Not coming up on searches of Netflix in the US....bummer.
Re: Interesting tv drama about Tea in Taiwan
Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2021 2:27 am
by Bok
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…
Re: Interesting tv drama about Tea in Taiwan
Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2021 1:10 am
by Balthazar
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.
Re: Interesting tv drama about Tea in Taiwan
Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2021 3:00 am
by Bok
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.
Re: Interesting tv drama about Tea in Taiwan
Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2021 11:58 am
by belewfripp
Looks interesting. NordVPN has a Taiwanese server connection available - I'll see if I can get it to come up.
Re: Interesting tv drama about Tea in Taiwan
Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2021 2:05 pm
by BriarOcelot
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
Re: Interesting tv drama about Tea in Taiwan
Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2021 2:29 pm
by pedant
Re: Interesting tv drama about Tea in Taiwan
Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2021 2:42 pm
by pedant
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
Re: Interesting tv drama about Tea in Taiwan
Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2021 2:58 pm
by klepto
I found it, via other means *cough cough* streaming site with eng subtiles.
Re: Interesting tv drama about Tea in Taiwan
Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2021 11:09 pm
by Bok
Re: Interesting tv drama about Tea in Taiwan
Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2021 2:05 pm
by belewfripp
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.
