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Tea Soup

One River Tea

Society & Culture

Frequency: 1 episode/24d. Total Eps: 47

A podcast all about Tea Culture, Life in Modern China, and Chinese Tea. Hosted by Derek from One River Tea.

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Episode 47 - Jingmai Mountain

Friday, January 23, 2026 • Duration 01:07:45

Welcome back to another episode of Tea Soup! First episode of 2026, and we are hitting the ground running. In this episode we briefly recap 2025, and talk about our spring tea trip out to the Jingmai Mountain. One of the new six famous tea mountains, Jingmai boasts the largest cultivated ancient tea garden on the planet! We talk about our experiences on the mountain, the culture, the tea, and of course hit some excellent tangents.

If you’re curious about Jingmai tea, check out the Illud Tempus tea cake available via One River Tea.

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Episode 46 - Zhangping Shuixian

Thursday, October 16, 2025 • Duration 01:12:04

Another episode with both Alex and Derek of the One River Tea Cooperative. We sat down while in Anhui searching for Qimen Hongcha to talk about a summer trip Alex and Xiaoyan took to Zhangping, home of China’s only pressed oolong, the Zhangping Shuixian.

We als briefly talk about our experiences in Qimen County, just west of Huangshan, and the curious people and teas we haw encountered. We finish the episode talking about the Cooperative structure of One River Tea and muse on a few organizations that have a very impressive social element like the Pang Dong Lai grocery store in Xuchang Hunan.

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Episode 37 - Sourcing Puer (Dong Guo Village)

Season 1 · Episode 37

Saturday, September 7, 2024 • Duration 01:04:30

In this final episode of sourcing puer in Spring of 2024, we talk about the Dong Guo Village. A lesser known village with a large amount of Gushu trees in Yunnan’s Mengku region just South East of the Big Snow Mountain. We discuss different philosophies of making tea and fall deep into tangents on Daoism, Sun Wukong: Black Myth, deep Yunnan culture, and even a bit of food anthropology. As always, all the teas we source and discuss are available on the OneRiverTea.com website for all those interested in supporting our podcast and our little cooperative. Thanks for your interest in tea!

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Episode 36 - Sourcing Pu’er (Xiao Hu Sai)

Season 1 · Episode 36

Thursday, June 6, 2024 • Duration 01:00:11

In this episode, we leave the tombs of the Wang Family and wander through their wild gardens of tea trees on the Kua mountain. We talk about the skinny chickens, the knock off Adibas shoes, the connection between the land and the teas. We finally get out to Xiao Hu Sai, home of the largest garden of ancient tea trees in Mengku and we talk about why we love these teas and how we designed the new tea cake wrappers. As always, if you’re enjoying the podcast, consider checking out what teas Derek has sourced on www.onerivertea.com

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Episode 35 - Qingming Festival

Season 1 · Episode 35

Thursday, May 30, 2024 • Duration 01:03:08

In this episode, Derek talks about the Qingming Festival, he maps out some of the spring tea harvest times in China, but really focuses on late March and early April. He talks about the modern rituals undertaken for the Tomb Sweeping Festival from East to West in mainland China, and frames all of this within his most recent Spring 2024 tea trip. There is a brief review on how to make Fuding White Tea, as well as a lot of behind the scenes for the makers of the Kuashan raw puer and Lincang white teas. As always, all the teas sourced here in Tea Soup are featured on the onerivertea.com website. Brew Happy!

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Episode 34 - A History of Modern Sichuan & Sourcing Jasmine Tea

Season 1 · Episode 34

Thursday, May 9, 2024 • Duration 01:03:35

In this episode of Tea Soup, Derek is joined by another One River Tea Worker/Owner, Alex Witherspoon. Together we recount our recent travels into Sichuan searching for jasmine tea. We talk a lot about Alex’s project in Hefeng, where One River Tea hosts WWOOFers, farming volunteers from all over the world. We talk about the incredibly bloody history of the 19th and 20th century Sichuan, and of course we get around to talking about sourcing the Jasmine Tea which should appear in one the onerivertea.com website later this month. This podcast is part of a video which will be available on the One River Tea Youtube Channel as well.

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Episode 33 - Sourcing Yellow Tea

Season 1 · Episode 33

Monday, April 15, 2024 • Duration 01:03:05

Welcome! Today, Derek and Alex talk about their journey to the top of Golden Chicken Mountain, one of the cheeriest tea prodcuers east of Luan (Liuan?), and the holisitic state of the yellow tea market in China. Is it fermented or oxidized? What is dry and wet yellowing? What even is yellow tea? We share our journey to answer these questions and grow from skeptics to yellow-pilled enjoyers. Come hear more about what goes into that mellow corny aroma you can brew up from nothing else. If you’re interested in yellow tea, please check out our very own onerivertea.com website.

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Episode 32 - Sourcing Dragonwell (2024)

Season 1 · Episode 32

Tuesday, April 2, 2024 • Duration 01:01:38

In this episode, we talk about West Lake Dragonwell, we just got back from Hangzhou a few days ago with some incredible insights into the making of longjing. We share tips on how to buy the right longjing on the mountain; talk about the risks of drinking same-day tea, get into the TCM of green teas both freshly made and moderately aged. We bring back some old favorite characters Tang Xiaojun and Tang Hejun. We introduce our new source for this fantastic tea, Little Wang with her garden of Longjing Cultivar 108. Finally we talk about meeting Jürgen from Tea Addicts (https://www.tea-addicts.de). We have a lovely moment sharing tea between friends, and we consider the idiom 可遇不可求 (Ke Yu Bu Ke Qiu), “Things that can be found only by chance, not by seeking”. As always, most the teas mentioned can be found on our website (https://onerivertea.com) and the Chaozhou teapots we mentioned can befound on our teaware website (https://taoteaware.com). Thanks for your interest in our tea adventures!

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Episode 31 - Sourcing Pu’er (Mengsong)

Season 1 · Episode 31

Saturday, March 23, 2024 • Duration 01:02:39

2024 Spring Tea has just started being picked, and the prospects are looking good! We spend the first part of this episode talking about green tea and what it’s like living through the Mingqian hype here in China. We get onto the topic of this episode, sourcing Puer in Menghai, and we say goodbye to the cast of characters we met in Lincang and we share a new set of faces we meet down in Menghai. We talk about the mysterious Paul, the man behind White2Tea, we talk about sketchy border teas, over-talkative taxi drivers, and of course farmer Tan and his remarkable Huazhu Liangzi Gushu. As always, almost all the teas talked about in this episode are available on the OneRiverTea.com website, and any tangentally talked about teaware can be found at TaoTeaware.com. As always, thanks for supporting our podcast and your interest in Modern Tea in Modern China!

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Episode 30 - Sourcing Pu’er (Big Snow Mt.)

Season 1 · Episode 30

Monday, February 26, 2024 • Duration 52:41

In this episode of Tea Soup, Derek talks about the 10 million train trips per day during China’s Spring Festival, the curious mythology surrounding the Dai Minority Water Splashing Festival, and his pilgrimage to the world’s oldest tea tree (2,700 years old!). He mentions Joseph Campbell’s book “The Hero With a Thousand Faces: The Cosmogonic Cycle”, Mercia Eliade’s Book “The Sacred and the Profane”, Laozi’s “Dao De Jing”, and Zhuangzi’s “Zhuangzi”. It is a surprisingly philosophical introspective episode that takes place between sourcing Lincang Puer and his trip down south to Xishuang Banna. As always, if you enjoy the podcast, feel free to show your support by buying tea at onerivertea.com or teaware at taoteaware.com. Thanks so much for your listening support!

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