The craft
A family farm, a new house
Master T is a new house. The farm is not.
For more than ten years the Zheng family has grown green tea, oolong, and jasmine in Fu’an, Fujian, and supplied drinkers across China. In 2025 two high-school friends decided the blooming teas tied on that farm should travel further than the domestic trade.
The two of us
Tingting Ho has lived between Europe and Asia, working at technology companies and paying attention to how tea is sold once it leaves China. Lucas Zheng grew up on the farm and finished a master’s degree in tea cultivation. They spent months looking at the blooming teas offered overseas and kept meeting the same gap. Most of the brands do not own the field. The flower is bought through a middleman, and the story is written afterwards.
Master T is the other arrangement. The leaf is harvested on the family farm. The blooms are tied by hand by artisans in Fu’an. The box leaves China and comes to your door.
What you are actually buying
A blooming tea is a small bundle: pan-fired green tea wrapped around edible flowers. In this collection those flowers are jasmine, lily, globe amaranth, pot marigold, and, in one tea, carnation. Each piece weighs 7–10 grams. In hot water the leaves loosen and the flower stands up in the glass. The liquor is a green tea — floral, light, and meant to be resteeped.
The first sixteen shapes are in the collection. Prices are introductory. Orders start at $50, and standard shipping is included.