I have tasted the refreshing Pu'er tea, the intriguing Tieguanyin, and the refreshing and pleasant Longjing tea... But if you want to ask me which tea among the many famous teas is the most unforgettable and the most memorable for me.

I will tell you without hesitation that none of these popular teas are my favorite.

Tea, my favorite is our Yao family’s Camellia oleifera.

It's simple, it's fragrant, it's like a relative in my hometown that makes me nostalgic.

My home is in Yiyao Township, Hezhou, Guangxi. The green mountains have given birth to green camellia trees and our simple Yao people.

If you want to drink a cup of authentic Yaoxiang oil tea, you have to pay attention to it.

There can be no carelessness in selecting materials.

The tea is our own tea grown in Yaoxiang (generally the tea sold in the market cannot match the flavor of our own tea).

The best tea is the tea during the Qingming Festival; oil, ordinary cooking oil can also be used, but it is best to use fresh chicken fat.

Because the brown color and taste produced by fresh chicken fat are attractive and distinctive; ginger must be old ginger.

The new ginger is not spicy enough, and the resulting tea is strong and impure.

Water must be boiled water; salt, ordinary table salt will suffice.

After selecting the materials, you can start making the oil tea.

The process of making oil tea is also very particular.

In terms of its utensils, ordinary pots cannot make good oil tea, and a special pot is required.

This pot is not big, made of pig iron, and is just enough for about 6 people.

A special wooden hammer is used to knead the tea leaves and a special tea filter made of bamboo slices.

Before making oil tea, first put the tea leaves in a pot and boil water, then pour out the tea water, and then rinse the tea leaves with clean water.

After all these are completed, you can put the pot on a special electric stove and break the ginger during the preheating process.

When the pot is hot, put the tea leaves and ginger into the pot and rub it slowly (you can add garlic granules).

When the tea leaves start to stick to the pot, it is time to put an appropriate amount of salt into the pot and rub them together. After a while, you can add boiling water.

When adding boiling water, first pour a small amount of boiling water, then rub it, and then add appropriate boiling water according to the number of people.

When the tea boils, add appropriate salt and stir again.

In this way, a cup of fragrant oil tea is ready.

Put chopped green onion, fried rice, fried peanuts, small oil fruits (the way you put them will vary depending on your personal preferences), etc. in the bowl.

Then pour the oil tea from the pot. In an instant, the crispy yellow oil fruits, white fried rice, and green chopped green onions become extremely attractive under the wash of the oil tea.

Once you taste it, the rich aroma will definitely make you have endless aftertaste.

It feels spicy but a little bitter, and bitter but a little fragrant.

Isn’t this tea just like the bitter, spicy, and sweet flavors that we will taste throughout our life journey?

Tasting tea is like tasting life!

The strong aroma of tea combined with the taste of peanuts and chopped green onions gives you a unique feeling when you taste it slowly.

Camellia oleifera is also a specialty of our hospitality here.

If you have the opportunity to come to our Yao Township in Hezhou, no matter whose home you visit, they will enthusiastically offer you a bowl of thick oil tea.

According to some traditional Chinese medicine doctors, drinking camellia oleifera also has medical effects such as dispelling cold and heat, refreshing and fighting fatigue.