Boil some water and heat up your teapot, cup, and container! The tea leaves I have here is from 合歡山, it's one of the peaks in Taiwan that gets snow. The tea that survive the wild temperature swings at the higher elevations often grow the slowest which gives the plant more time to store all of that wonderful tea goodness.

Step 2: Add some tea! For this type of tea, the dried out leaves are rolled up into a ball. Green tea (綠茶) has no fermentation, red/black tea (紅茶) is fully fermented. Oolong tea is a type of 青茶 which is on the green tea side of the spectrum, lightly fermented. A good rule of thumb is to add enough to make a layer in whatever container you're brewing out of