"For those who want traditional kneading techniques to make tea, typically there are only two kinds: one is the super-rich, playing with tea that costs thirty to fifty thousand per liang, but someone like Lao Deng may not even manage to get high-end scraps."
"And the other kind, well, are super eccentrics!" The little fox confidently chirped wiht a pout.
The customer that Ah Qing is now encountering is someone that Ansheng had actually come across when he managed tea houses and tea plantations in his past life.
The traditional kneading technique, formally speaking, involves strong men wearing rain boots and using their feet for kneading.
Of course.
You can use your hands as well, but hand strength and endurance don't quite match that of feet. Kneading the fresh tea leaves with feet has the added benefit of using your own weight to crush, breaking the cell tissues of the tea leaves and releasing the sugars, polyphenols, and aromatic substances inside the leaves.
