Longjing

It serves classic Hangzhou cuisine from the Yangtze River Delta — like freshwater Longjing shrimp stir-fried with tea leaves and wine.

Hong Kong: The Sky Unlimited 2011

The food here is organic, sourced directly from artisanal producers and peasant farmers, cooked by master chefs without MSG and served in private rooms scattered around a beautiful garden in the Longjing tea hills.

Fuchsia Dunlop 2010

My favorites here included shrimps in Longjing tea and pork meatballs.

One City, Many Cuisines 2010

Note that Longjing has been explored by China was among the first area to be explored but for some reason it had not been exploited.

The East China Sea deal - details Sun Bin 2008

In another incident, a North Korean refugee killed two local police and a Chinese border patrolman in the town of Longjing, west of Tumen.

Nukes And Crime: China's Borderline Troubles 2007

The Longjing tea plantations on the outskirts of Hangzhou are definitely worth a visit.

Heavenly Hangzhou 2006

Hangzhounese cuisine features seafood such as shrimp cooked with Longjing tea leaves.

© Corbis A bridge between islands... 2006

Hangzhou is also home to the Lingyin Temple, one of China's best-known ancient Buddhist temples, and is a prolific producer of silk and tea, particularly Longjing, an expensive variety of green leaf grown in the verdant hills southwest of the lake.

Heavenly Hangzhou 2006

Hire a taxi--as in Shanghai, they are very cheap--or the hotel car to take you into the hills at the city's outer edge, where friendly harvesters still pick and bake the Longjing leaves by hand.

Heavenly Hangzhou 2006

Longjing tea, harvested by the nearby village of the same name, is a local speciality.

The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2011