About Kylinora

Kylinora is written and maintained by someone who works in the tea industry. It is independently edited: brewing parameters are attributed to their sources, and missing context is identified rather than filled in with guesses.

Who runs this site

Kylinora covers Chinese tea and teaware. The person writing this site works in the tea industry.

What you can read here

Our first guide explores gongfu tea: preparing a session, choosing and handling a gaiwan, and understanding differences between brewing instructions. It keeps reported brewing settings separate from practical suggestions and flags missing context where a number does not form a complete recipe.

Read the gongfu tea guide for the full article, including the temperature and infusion-time tables.

Questions and corrections

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