{"id":1637,"date":"2013-11-19T00:23:42","date_gmt":"2013-11-19T00:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/setcourseforchina.wordpress.com\/?p=1637"},"modified":"2013-11-19T00:23:42","modified_gmt":"2013-11-19T00:23:42","slug":"tea-tasting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/?p=1637","title":{"rendered":"Tea Tasting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/2013\/11\/dscf1766.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image\" id=\"i-1638\" alt=\"Image\" src=\"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/dscf1766.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, our program took us into Beijing to visit a four story mall filled with tea.\u00a0 As you stepped through the glass doors, a wave of fresh aromas greeted you.\u00a0 We walked through the hundreds of stalls to find a nice salesperson to let us taste some tea.<\/p>\n<p>This woman was very kind and presented us with dozens of types of tea.\u00a0 We gathered around this small table and watched as she skillfully created the perfect cup of tea.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/2013\/11\/dscf1769.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image\" id=\"i-1646\" alt=\"Image\" src=\"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/dscf1769.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We tried oolong, red, green, and chrysanthemum tea.\u00a0 Then we tried many varieties of tea that I&#8217;ve never heard of!\u00a0 After the taste testing, I bought some lovely tea to bring back to the U.S.\u00a0 They weighed it skillfully, then vacuum sealed the bag to ensure it stays fresh. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As we walked around the hundreds of tea sets, I started to feel jittery.\u00a0 Some other people felt extremely silly for no reason.\u00a0 Our program director, Kitty, mentioned that after you drink a lot of tea you can get &#8220;tea drunk.&#8221;\u00a0 I have no idea how or why this happens but I started to feel all the caffeine.\u00a0 With all this extra energy, we had to be careful with all the fragility around us but thankfully we tasted and bought tea without breaking anything!<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday, our program took us into Beijing to visit a four story mall filled with tea.\u00a0 As you stepped through the glass doors, a wave of fresh aromas greeted you.\u00a0 We walked through the hundreds of stalls to find a nice salesperson to let us taste some tea. This woman was very kind and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}