​Like the fruits and vegetables we commonly eat, tea also has its season to be harvested. But finding the best time to pick tea can be tricky—the weather conditions have to be just right in order to bring out the tea's best flavor. In Xiaohusai, for example, tea is mainly harvested during the spring and summer, though other kinds of tea require a fall or winter harvest.

Tea or coffee? It's a classic question of preference, but it also describes a rivalry brewing in Yunnan province, China.
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Pu'er, a city in Yunnan, is long-famed for producing its namesake pu-erh ​tea drunk all over the world. Ironically, though, Pu'er's location in lush, tropical southern China makes it the perfect climate for growing coffee. Although Pu'er's farmers have only cultivated tea for thousands of years, coffee plantations are quickly cropping up in the region today.