Xinbei Sanzhi Tea Travel Heart experience the exclusive taste of picking and making your own.

When it comes to Taiwan tea, I believe most people will think of nothing more than well-known tea areas such as Alishan, Lishan, or Pinglin, but did you know that Sanzhi in Xinbei also grows tea, and can still experience making tea? Go to explore with "just want to travel".

Through the introduction and leadership of our local friends, we visited Su Yimin, a 52-year-old tech venture capitalist who used to earn more than one million a year. Tired of the intrigues in business, he returned to his hometown from China in 2015 and took over from his family elders a tea garden that had been abandoned for nearly 35 years and about 12 hectares, to be planted in the natural wild farming method that protects the land.

Su Yimin said that although most people are strange to the tea area of Sanzhi, Sanzhi can be said to be a very important tea producing area in the past. In its scenic days, there were as many as six large tea factories in a small place, feeding more than 70% of the people of Sanzhi. It has also been exported to a large number of countries, such as Japan and Europe, but later, with the decline of traditional industries, the last tea factory was closed in 1980. The local tea industry also declined and was forgotten by people.

The decline of tea culture

Because of the decline of the tea garden, but also want more people to understand the tea culture of Sanzhi, Su Yimin resolutely returned to Sanzhi tea. In addition to producing Oriental Beauty, Honey Black Tea, Longjing Green Tea and other tea products in the current tea garden, he also combines tea with Sanzhi's well-known cherry blossoms to develop season-limited "cherry blossom tea."

In addition, in order to continue Sanzhi's tea culture and let more people know, Su Yimin also launched a tea tour cultural experience, leading visitors to put on flower hats and tea baskets, followed him into the tea garden, felt the natural aroma of tea trees and soil in the wild tea garden, picked the emerald green two leaves, and brought back to the tea factory to make their own Sanzhi tea through the process of stir-frying, kneading and baking.

Small millet handmade: no. 1051Putou Keng, Sanzhi District, New Taipei City (adjacent to Sanzhi Visitor Center), 0955-229,955, with a cost of 500 yuan (300 yuan below Primary School), 15 people can be booked one week in advance; you can take "Taiwan Haohang-Crown North Sea Shoreline". Get off at the "Sanzhi Visitor Center (Celebrity Museum)" stop and walk for about 10 minutes.