Thailand - Where the Wild Tea Grows and Modern Oolong Tea Flows

In the remote northern regions of Thailand stately indigenous tea trees flourish in the tropical climate of the heavily forested mountainous Chiang Rai Province. Anthropologists and tea historians believe the birthplace of tea to be adjoining areas of remote jungle wilderness that runs from Assam, India to China's south- ern Yunnan province, across the top of Laos and what today is Myanmar, down into northern Thailand, and across the northern regions of Vietnam.

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Ethnic minority tribes of Akha, Hmong, Labu, Lisu, Kosen, and Lua that originated in Mainland China and Myanmar (formerly Burma), have been settled in the mountain- ous remote jungle regions of northern Thailand, surrounded by the borders of Laos and Myanmar.

ECOLOGY YOU CAN TRUST

Centuries old wild tea plants have grown into huge stately tea trees in these jungles, from which local populations have made tea from the leaves.

LONG & WELL KEPT TRADITIONS

Local populations have made tea from the leaves, as well as foraging the forest floor for other roots and herbs.

GENERATIONS LONG TRADITIONS

For generations the people of these regions have made a kind of picked tea known as let-pet or miang.

TEA USED FOR CEREMONIES

Today letpet is still a diet staple for many people of the region, as well as being used as an offering on religious occasions.

GOOD THINGS TAKES TIME

To make letpet, fresh tea leaves are first steamed, then packed into large bamboo stalks, before being buried and left to ferment for several months.

SPECIAL TEA FOR SPECIAL OCCASIONS

While fermenting the letpet acquires an extremely pungent flavor and aroma. It's served to elders as a sign of respect, and also served on special occasions.

What is Special about Tea From Thailand?

To make letpet, fresh tea leaves are first steamed, then packed into large bamboo stalks, before being buried and left to ferment for several months. While fermenting the letpet acquires an extremely pungent flavor and aroma.

Special Fermentation Process

Pickled tea isn't served as a beverage, but rather mixed with oil and vinegar and served together with fried peanuts, sesame seeds, fried shrimp, and fresh tomatoes and green chilies.

Kultivation and Sinesis

Cultivation of Camellia sinensis began in the 1960s in the Thai mountain villages of Chiang Rai and Chiang Mai. The village of Mae Salong in Chiang Rai has become famous for its unusual Thai style Taiwan oolong tea.

How a classically Chinese tea came to be grown in Thailand and so popular worldwide?

Thailand's oolong tea production is small and most is consumed internally, dispersed to Southeast Asia via the busy Bangkok hub, and sold to visiting tourists in the resorts of Chiang Mai. The Chinese village of Mae Salong located in Thailand's Chiang Rai, is being marketed as an interesting and colorful tourist destination

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