Living as a Foreigner in Chengdu, A Texan’s Journey with Gongfu Tea [Teatime with Jesse Ep - 4]

[@aitoriri1]

The ultimate tea youtube crossover, what a treat

[@Aloha-sailor]

Sohan is cool. My grandmother brought back tea from Hong Kong in '69, I fell in love with Chinese tea because of her. There's nothing else like it. Thanks for the podcast Jesse.

[@deltapi6880]

Definitely the best episode yet! We need to see more of So Han!

[@faym2350]

AWESOME.. Another famous Tea Master. So good to see you both together!!

[@JeffreyFredrick]

Great to see two of my KZbin tea people together, and so happy to hear the shoutout to Hidden Peak Teahouse in Santa Cruz. Local treasure!

[@michellelamm-faries3054]

Hidden Peak is an experience that everyone should have. I was looking for anything similar in Texas, looking on youtube I found both of you. What a joy that you both talk about what you love...tea, and teach us more. ❤ keep it real tea!

[@sashas3332]

I love you two together! This was the best, please do more!

[@halleywalker6520]

The collab I've been waiting for ☺️ y'all are my main online tea teachers on KZbin ❤ love ya both!

[@EmmanuelBorde]

Chears from France, I'm fond of both of you So Han and Jesse. Thank so much for all the things you have taught to me.

[@sublime_iceberg]

Loving seeing you have so much fun Jesse and absolutely killing it! LIVE STUDIO AUDIENCE!! Onwards and upwards my man!!

[@Cronus592]

Ah man, your content is so refreshing. I love your passion for tea, good conversation and laughs.

[@TBaLakeRat]

I just got my first subscription box and am enjoying the White Dew White Tea with this episode! Thank you for all the content you have put out and introducing myself and others to what real tea can be. I'm looking forward to sharing cups of tea with friends and trying more teas from your selection. And I'll need to get myself down to West China Tea House! (Texan in close proximity to Austin). Obligatory howdy to you!

[@kapirk2244]

This was a fantastic interview and podcast! It could have been longer, half again as long would not be too much! Please make a Part 2 when you get an opportunity. The similarities between the two of you, your stories, your life path. Bring it on! Is this setting, the new West China Teahouse, after the move?

[@caskaptein9889]

I was so exited to see this collap! Thanks guys!

[@tearoses1959]

Wow! I never would have thought I would have seen West China Tea as a guest with Jesse! I visited them in Austin last Saturday with my friend for their monthly CommuniTEA event! It was so much fun and the highlight of my month. I got to meet lots of interesting people and as somebody new to pu'er and gongfu cha (thanks to Jesse) I really wanted to go to a shop that specialized in brewing tea gongfu style. It was a great opportunity to learn about (and taste) some amazing tea! I loved the sticky rice shou pu'er while I was there and it's possibly one of my new favorites!

[@wildebeestwright]

This was really great to watch, but I’m wondering why post an edited version instead of the full podcast? The full conversation (which I found on Spotify) is much more engaging than the chopped up version, and I would have loved to watch it here instead of just listening to it. Either way though, I’m loving this collaboration. I’ve learned a lot from you both, so seeing you together was great.

[@hafthorberkay]

I just want to say that while it's not Gong Fu Cha or anything like that, your videos convinced me to buy myself some lovely whole leaf Ceylon tea and overall put more care into my tea making process! I live in a country with terrible exchange rate so while buying something from your web store is not an option for now, I definitely love the peaceful content and I'll actually experiment with brewing the tea I have in small intervals like you do!! Thanks and keep up the good stuff!!!

[@MoriendumEst.]

Love your podcasts! Very funny and entertaining

[@mrgonzo2139]

It’s cool and a bit funny too Me how they treat the tea and being a connoisseur of it like me and my friends are with weed. From different types of buds and their pheno types too different types of hash or rosin. Also the bongs isnt jus a bong we collect from different artist from all over. It’s actually super similar in some ways

[@TheBlueWizardOfWestVirginia]

So glad I found your channel, thanks for bringing life back to my love for gongfu cha.

[@jamisonwaters7319]

I loved every second of this video! Thanks Jesse and So Han!

[@tmoneysims]

What an engaging conversation! Im thoroughly impressed.

[@norabellerose8560]

SO COOL!!!! Not only did this video drop but I’m also going to be drinking the 2022 thousand year tree wild red tea.

[@jejehdh]

Yoooooo!!!! Fire collab!

[@AshAshAshAshAshAshAshAshAshAsh]

This was a treat to see live. Thank you for serving us tea and not showing us in the video

[@UniquelyUnseen]

If you are ever on the East Coast, in Washington DC there is a place called Ching Ching Cha which is a very traditional gongfu cha style tea house. I think its one of only a few on the east coast. Recently, they mopved into a smaller location - great selection and relatively inexpensive.

[@OwlNightLight]

This is amazing I'm so happy to watch after just drinking some Jin Jun Mei, I'm trying with all my might to not immediately buy everything on the site but I may just have to buy something because I do not wanna run out of this amazing tea !

[@jessesteahouse]

I love the Jin jun mei 😊😊 enjoy and try another tea sometime 🎉

[@SeldomSanguine]

Wooo caught the tail end of this one

[@cloroxbleach2520]

Lmao, saying welcome to Sohan in his own teahouse 😂

[@Devboul]

Great video 🎉

[@buckingtonhassleshire9136]

Great video

[@mysticthecatninja]

Oooo if you come to the Seattle area let us know!

[@Mikehartman4747]

So happy I stumbled on this channel. Thanks for doing this Jesse. Love all your content and learning so much without having to schlep to Asia. What are your thoughts on David’s Tea. (Might only be in Canada and New York). Generally speaking when you go to a new city, where do you buy your tea? I go to a big retailer (David’s) but think I’ll score better tea in some dive in Chinatown which is great in Toronto.

[@hoktang1]

Have you been up to CN tower?

[@12345ythan]

Love your channel.

[@rustyshackleford1]

Great episode! The first chinese tea I tried I ordered from west china tea. I'm looking forward to ordering more of the moonlight white tea I think it was called and I also really wana try your white dew white tea it looks great

[@StarIings]

Grats on 100k! Holy that was fast!

[@jessesteahouse]

It happened slowly, then all at once

[@WrestlingFandom]

🫖🍵 Please Come to Houston. I'd love to meet Chunky Horse! 🐎

[@mynameisnotcory]

Wish we had teahouses like this in dfw!!

[@colinriter5109]

I assume that it is but I would like to put a pretty glaze on the water buffalo tea pet and I wanted to make sure that it was ceramic

[@chemy6722]

Hi Jesse, any chance you can do a short video about rooibos?

[@Jaime-vy6lc]

I can’t get over the structure used to display the teaware behind you both! Where can I find THAT?

[@ondrejcitek668]

Can you make yerba mate in gongfu tea set?

[@wurayi]

Jessie got worried about his comedian career in china, when the guest spoke about foreigners invited to be on stage without caring about how good they are 😅

[@jessesteahouse]

This was a huge problem in my career, it is very hard to succeed when people in industry think you got where you are because of your skin, and because they expect so little of you, there are no chances to show you actually do good work since they only write scripts assuming people that look like you are prop pieces

[@wurayi]

So great u see it in this open way, thanks for answering 🙏🏽

[@OingoBoingo--nice]

I need more

[@pokeGMD]

awesome edpisode!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@angelgalindo5740]

If tea were to replace booze......... we would become as advanced as aliens!

[@BestFriendOfJesus]

Great videos Jesse

[@internet_internet]

You don’t mess with the Sohan.

[@damianramirez9762]

Cracking up I can’t breathe 8:41

[@PRJ3856]

Everything is sold out on your website, i guess no tea oranges for me 😢

[@mackerelle9789]

😅 we literally called one of my chubby cousins the translation for “Piggy/Pig” growing up.

[@hackersystem8568]

Hey Jesse, Could you introduce the writing and the traduction of every chinese word you use when speaking? So we could understand more and maybe learn a little bit of chinese as we would have the sound the writing (chinese) and traduction.

[@internet_internet]

Hey neighbor. Shout out from Round Rock.

[@connorthatguy3253]

Hey, I gotta ask, what do you use to store all your looseleaf in? EX, I ordered tea and it was in a plastic bag, with a window. I want to put it in something air/light proof. Got any recommendations?

[@ChuckECheeez]

I grew up in the South drinking Southern style iced tea and it will always be my favorite but it’s not the best for warm/hot tea and sometimes on a cold day, it’s nice to enjoy something besides iced tea. I’ve gotten into Chai a lot lately, but do you recommend a Chinese tea for one like myself who has certain tastes* already but want to kind of expand on that? *which is to say, i generally like very strong, very sweet tea.

[@lillylyantha]

Do you ever do black tea or Indian tea? I’m very curious about other teas!

[@deciiproductions]

How many tea sessions is too many in a given day? I find myself craving the tea multiple times a day so I end up doing 2-5 sessions a day. Is that too many? 🤣

[@sashas3332]

Yessssssss!!!!!!!!

[@damianramirez9762]

Where did you learn Chinese !

[@jessesteahouse]

I studied in school and then also lived in china nine years doing chinese language comedy and tv writing

[@CGoody564]

Now how do I convince you to team up with the dregons treasure in some way? His tea is out of this world (at least according to this tea pleb right here), all loose leaf, and individual bags are hand packed if one wants to try single servings. His store is themed around japanese anime culture (and tea, of course) Disclaimer: i have no affiliation with the dragons treasure aside from being a fan and enjoying tea. If you say I sent you, he'll probably say "who? I dont even know who that is" 😅 but he's a good dude with good tea, would love to see a collab tea product featuring some chinese/japanese tea in y'all's stores (just one random idea)

[@imtheslothking]

Bro how many people in the room? Sounds like 5-10

[@jessesteahouse]

We had like 30 but we didn’t mic them 😂

[@johnyang2]

You're from New England right? You did a comic relief in Chinese and told the audience that you're from Northeast U.S.

[@jessesteahouse]

That’s meeee

[@sashas3332]

[@norabellerose8560]

Since you two lived in China before I’m curious. I don’t mind the idea of spending time in china but I am concerned about censorship to an extent, like either on my laptop, or my phone with media or phone calls to the US, using something like NordVPN to watch KZbin or Google things and stuff like that. I just want to know if I would actually get in trouble for that but with me knowing better I obviously wouldn’t badmouth the government if I was there.

[@jessesteahouse]

Having a VPN is not a bad idea so you can go on KZbin and check your Gmail, but on a day-to-day basis, you have absolutely nothing to worry about in terms of things that will happen to you because of what you say on the Internet as long as you’re not there specifically to cause problems. You’re far more likely to get hit by a car than get arrested in China for saying something innocuous on WeChat

[@doublekuno521]

I have a really stupid question which needs a really precise answer. What is the blackest tea in the world? Google says Assam, but its like doing a surgery with a two-handed sword... Thanks in advance.

[@floridaredfishin8209]

Why do all the tea bros have lisps lol