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John Dodd was a Scottish merchant who helped promote Taiwan tea to the west in the late 19th century. In 1860, he arrived at Taiwan to do some research for the first time. [1] In 1865, John Dodd established the Dodd & Co in Qing-era Taiwan. [2]
Bubble tea is a tea-based drink that originated in Taiwan in the early 1980s. It most commonly consists of tea accompanied by chewy tapioca balls, but it can be made with other toppings as well.
Oolong is a traditional semi-oxidized Chinese tea produced through a process including withering the plant under strong sun and oxidation before curling and twisting. Most oolong teas, especially those of fine quality, involve unique tea plant cultivars that are exclusively used for particular varieties. The degree of oxidation, which varies according to the chosen duration of time before firing, can range from 8 to 85%, depending on the variety and production style. Oolong is especially popular in south China and among Chinese expatriates in Southeast Asia as is the Fujian preparation process known as the Gongfu tea ceremony.
Taiwanese cuisine has several variations. In addition to dishes influenced by the majority Hoklo people, there is much influence from Taiwanese indigenous peoples, Hakka, Waishengren, local derivatives of Japanese cuisine, as well as types of Chinese cuisine from outside Fujian.
Baozhong tea, sometimes known in English by the older romanization pouchong, is a lightly oxidized tea, twist shape, with floral notes, and usually not roasted, somewhere between green tea and what is usually considered oolong tea, though often classified with the latter due to its lack of the sharper green tea flavours. It is produced mainly in Fujian, China and in Pinglin District, New Taipei, Taiwan.
Pinglin District is a rural district of southeastern New Taipei, Taiwan. It is the third-largest district of New Taipei City and it is located in the mountainous area bordering Yilan County.
The culture of Taiwan is a blend of Confucian Chinese and indigenous Taiwanese cultures. Despite the overwhelming traditional Chinese influence, Japanese culture has influenced a lot of Taiwanese culture as well. The common socio-political experience in Taiwan gradually developed into a sense of Taiwanese cultural identity and a feeling of Taiwanese cultural awareness, which has been widely debated domestically.
Milk tea refers to several forms of beverage found in many cultures, containing some combination of tea and milk. Beverages vary based on the amount of each of these key ingredients, the method of preparation, and the inclusion of other ingredients. Instant milk tea powder is a mass-produced product.
Taiwanese tea culture includes tea arts, traditional tea ceremonies, and the social aspects of tea consumption in Taiwan. It can be traced back to its roots in Chinese tea culture. Many of the classical arts can be seen in the tea culture, such as calligraphy, flower arts, and incense arts. Tea, especially oolong tea, is a popular drink in Taiwan, and teahouses, or "tea-arts" shops, are common.
Lei cha or ground tea is a traditional Southern Chinese tea-based beverage or gruel that forms a part of Hakka cuisine . In English, the dish is sometimes called thunder tea since "thunder" is homonymous with "pounded".
Dongfang meiren or baihao (白毫), among other Chinese names, is a heavily oxidized, non-roasted, tip-type oolong tea originating in Hsinchu County, Taiwan. It is an insect tea produced from leaves bitten by the tea jassid, an insect that feeds on the tea plant. Terpenes are released in the bitten leaves, which creates a honey-like taste. Oriental beauty, white-tip oolong, and champagne oolong are other names under which dongfang meiren is marketed in the West.
John Dodd may refer to:
Taiwanese tea includes four main types: oolong tea, black tea, green tea and white tea. The earliest record of tea trees found in Taiwan is from 1717 in Shui Sha Lian (水沙連), present-day Yuchi and Puli, Nantou County. Some of the teas retain the island country's former name, Formosa.
Li Chunsheng was a Chinese businessman active in Qing-era Taiwan. Li was born in Xiamen, Fujian, mainland China, but he moved to Dadaocheng, Taipei, Taiwan in 1868. He possessed good business managing skills and was highly influential in Taiwan in his time.
Tatung Institute of Technology is an educational institution based in East District, Chiayi City, Taiwan. It has five new departments: Finance, Food and Beverage Management, Early Childhood Care and Education, Multimedia Design, and Leisure Recreation and Tourism Management, with a total of ten academic departments.
Ten Ren's Tea or Tian Ren's Tea is a Taiwan-based company that specializes in tea and ginseng products.
Chatime is a Taiwanese global franchise teahouse chain based in Zhubei. Chatime is the largest teahouse franchise in the world. Its expansion and growth model is through franchising. It operates 2500+ outlets in 38 countries. In 2006, it opened its first store outside of Taiwan in California, United States and it has since expanded to China, Malaysia, Canada, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Philippines, Cambodia, Thailand, United States, Australia, New Zealand, India, United Arab Emirates, Japan, Mongolia, Mauritius and South Korea, among others now.
CoCo Fresh Tea & Juice is a global bubble tea, or boba, drink franchise based in Taiwan. It was established in 1997 by Tommy Hung, the current chairman. CoCo has more than 4,500 locations in China, the U.S., Canada, France, Australia, the United Kingdom, and Japan. Its taro milk tea was recommended by Eater.com. Some Hong Kong franchise owners stirred controversy by expressing their support for the Hong Kong protesters with slogans like "Add oil, Hongkongers" on customers' receipts in 2019.
Overseas censorship of Chinese issues refers to censorship outside the People's Republic of China of topics considered sensitive by the ruling Chinese Communist Party. Censored topics include the political status of Taiwan, human rights in Tibet, Xinjiang internment camps and the Uyghur genocide, the Tiananmen Square massacre, the 2019–20 Hong Kong protests, the COVID-19 pandemic in mainland China and the PRC government's pandemic response, the persecution of Falun Gong, and more general issues related to human rights in China.
The Milk Tea Alliance is an online democratic solidarity movement mainly made up of netizens from Hong Kong, Taiwan, Thailand, and Myanmar (Burma). It originally started as an internet meme, created in response to the increased presence of Chinese nationalist commentators on social media and has evolved into a dynamic multinational protest movement against authoritarianism and advocating democracy. Aside from the four main countries mentioned, the movement has also established a significant presence in South Korea, the Philippines, India, Malaysia, Indonesia, Belarus and Iran.
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