Learn about Chinese Gōng Fū Chá style tea service 功夫茶, as well as, pǔ’ěr chá 普洱茶, a variety of fermented tea produced in Yunnan Province, China.

Your host, LaMonte Heflick, is a Certified Saké Professional (ASP Saké Education Council) since Feb 2014.

Also, a tea enthusiast, LaMonte has done presentations and served tea in the Elkhart, Indiana schools, for guests at the Wellfield Botanical Gardens, at Memories of China restaurant in Goshen, IN, for the Spice and Tea Exchange, Valporaiso, IN., at Sih Ye 四爺 teahouse Taipei, Taiwan and Apothica Teas Tea Shop, Niles, MI,  as well as, for the Indiana Foreign Language Teachers bprogram Association in Indianapolis, IN.

For two years LaMonte lived and worked in Japan at Toyota トヨタ自動車. Before retiring he was a speech-language pathologist in Elkhart, Indiana and taught Introduction to Japanese and Chinese languages.