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Just over two years after opening Kinsman<\/span>, a Hong Kong cocktail bar focused on Cantonese liquor, Gavin Yeung has embarked on another endeavour in his mission to spotlight Chinese culture in the food scene.<\/div>\n

It started with his discovery of matcha as a serene way to start the day. He initially saw whisking the tea as a grounding practice amid the chaos of the city.<\/p>\n

But for Yeung, whose career has revolved around reviving long-lost traditions, it became an obsession.<\/p>\n

For many tea drinkers, matcha \u2013 a powder with centuries of discipline, craft and spirituality behind it \u2013 is synonymous with Japan. But few realise that China is where it actually originated.<\/p>\n

That misunderstanding is born from the fact that Japan spent the better part of 1,000 years refining matcha into an art form before making it a global cultural export, while China\u2019s matcha history has largely faded into obscurity. Generations of consumers learned to associate matcha exclusively with Japanese aesthetics, grading systems and tea ceremonies.<\/p>\n

\u201cMatcha today is viewed through an exclusively Japanese lens,\u201d Yeung says. \u201cBut once I started doing more research and realised how much history there is where I\u2019m from, I was floored.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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