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- Tea is the world's most popular drink
and right here in Taiwan is one of the supreme areas
to grow tea, so right now, we're gonna go on a tour
of everything tea.
I've travelled up and over the jungle clad mountains
outside of Taipei and right below me is a tea plantation.
There are three harvest seasons here in Taiwan.
With the tea plants and what they do is they trim them down
and they wait 45 days and this
is what becomes the tea.
Pretty cool.
You see this gondola ride here?
Well, I'm gonna jump on this bad boy.
It's going to take me up the mountain.
Beautiful sights. Let's go.
This place is so cool. It's like I'm floating.
Look at that. Love it.
We're just above the city.
I can see the sprawling, sprawling center of Taipei.
Jungle, temples. It's beautiful.
That giant teapot can only mean one thing.
I am at the Tea Research and Promotion Center.
Let's go learn about tea.
The one I'm holding right now is oolong tea
which is one of the specialities of the region.
Mmm. Yeah, it's a winner.
This big plate right here is full of tea seeds.
This isn't for making tea.
They actually make oil out of this for cooking.
Pretty cool.
Of all the tea products they make,
this one right here is by far my favorite.
Ice cream.
It really does taste like tea.
I learned a lot about tea today.
Got to spend some time in the beautiful great outdoors
near Taipei and I'm heading home
with my very own bag of tea.