It may surprise you to learn that the earliest tea cups lack handles. Every family has these small tea cups, which are a product of the late 1700s and early 1800s. These are referred to as sipper cups ...

Call it a social media tempest in a teacup. Chinese businessman Liu Yiqian horrified many of his fellow citizens this week after a photo emerged showing the real estate mogul drinking tea out of a ...

In an Echo Park home, four friends gather around a fist-sized clay pot steaming with a rare vintage of pu’er — an aged tea from southern China whose most exotic variations sell for $1,500 a pound or ...

Samuel Wang sips Dragonwell green tea at his new Chinatown tea shop, Steep, on a recent afternoon as he conducts a Chinese tea ceremony. He warms my tea cup with some hot water, then rinses it in a ...