Readers’ Photos

Tea Withering (Wang Zhaogui)

New Taipei’s Wen Sun Farm is famous for its hand-processed baozhong tea. The tealeaves here are of the highest quality—fragrant, smooth and refreshingly sweet. Customers are enamored of its delicious taste.

Chin King Tea Manufacture (Xu Jia’en)

Chin King Tea is situated in Hsinchu’s Xinpu Township, a place steeped in Hakka culture. The firm combines cultural tourism with traditional tea production processes such as picking, roasting, and rolling tealeaves, seeking to revitalize Xinpu’s tea industry by offering characteristic Hakka teatime snacks, as well as recreating English tea culture in a local setting.

Olfactory Experience (Xu Chengrui)

At the Pinglin Tea Museum in New Taipei City, visitors get to acquaint themselves with various Taiwanese teas by observing, touching, and smelling the leaves.

Tea Pickers (Zhuang Zhengting)

The secret to high-quality tea is manual tea picking, which ensures that appropriate proportions of leaves, leaf buds, and stems are harvested. Tea pickers, often women, play a vital role in the industry.

Beautiful Figures (Wang Zhaogui)

The tea plantations at Ruan’an in Nantou County’s Zhushan—known as Bagua Tea Garden—are vast. The veteran tea pickers here enjoy their work and greet visitors with lovely smiles.

Wuling Farm (Zhang Xiuhuang)

The tea plantations of Taichung’s Wuling Farm are located in a valley at between 1,700 and 2,200 meters above sea level. They rely on river water and organic farming techniques. The high-mountain (gaoshan) teas produced here are of a rare quality and are highly sought after.

Early Morning in a Tea Garden (Chen Bozhou)

Boasting stunning views of expansive tea plantations, Bihu Tea Garden in Chiayi is open to tourists. The place promises beautiful sunrises and in winter is often nestled in seas of clouds.

Bagua Tea Garden (Chen Ziqing)

Located in Zhushan, Nantou County, Bagua Tea Garden is home to one of Taiwan’s most beautiful tea plantations. With winding rows of tea plants shaped like a farmer’s conical hat (douli), the place has earned the moniker of “Douli Tea Garden.”

Tea Under Plum Blossoms (Li Shengzhang)

Wusonglun in Nantou’s Xinyi Township has an abundance of plum trees whose blossoms look like drifts of snow. The scent is refreshing and uplifting. Visitors enjoy savoring tea with friends under the old flowering trees.