Brussels Chinese tea gatherings with Wenwei

Lunar New Year Celebration: Chinese Vegetarian Cuisine & Tea

Sun, Feb 15 · 12:00 PM CET

Location not specified yet

Dear friends,

Some time ago, we got in touch because I shared my wish to organise a Chinese vegetarian food gathering, and many of you expressed interest. And now the date and venue are confirmed:

Chinese Vegetarian Food Gathering
Date & time: Sunday 15/02, 12:00–14:00
Sign up via Hipsy:

https://hipsy.be/event/181039-lunar-new-year-celebration-chinese-vegetarian-cuisine-tea

After the meal, there will be a tea gathering guided by me, hosted by the Dutch cultural center in our commune, GC Ten Noey.
Chinese Tea Gathering with Wenwei
Date & time: Sunday 15/02, 14:30–16:30
Sign up via GC Ten Noey:

https://tickets.vgc.be/activity/subscribe/NOE_LR_2025_Theebijeenkomst_met_Wenwei_Zhang

This will be a small and intimate gathering to celebrate Chinese New Year, with around 8 participants.

Please read the details below — if this resonates with you and you’d like to celebrate together, you’re very welcome to join us.

About the food gathering
• The meal will be fully vegetarian
• I’ll be cooking comfortable food with nostalgic flavours - dishes that feel good for my body after eating
• This is not fine dining, and I’m not professionally trained as a cook - Think of it as a tablée experience, where we consciously share food together
• I’ll be using mushrooms and soy products, so please keep this in mind if you have allergies
Why I do this
• As a vegetarian, I often get bored with the very few vegetarian options in restaurants, so I wanted to create an experience I personally would enjoy
• I love making people to discover new flavours, this is one of the reasons why i host tea gatherings
Drinks included
• One comforting Chinese herbal drink that I’ll prepare
• One aged fermented pu er tea with aged tangerine peel to finish the meal
• Feel free to bring your own drinks if you like, alcohol or non alcohol
Menu

To be honest, I’m still playing with different ideas, there’s a lot I’d love to try. The menu below is is a reference:

• Marinated tomatoes with shiso and salted plum
• Sour and spicy crunchy wood ear mushroom
• ”salad“Sautéed tofu skin with vegetables (40g protein per 100g in this tofu skin ) - or Hakka style stuffed tofu ?
• Sautéed Potatoes with Lao Gan Ma sauce
• Greek black rice (or maybe “multigrain rice”)
• Daikon, shiitake mushroom and ginger soup
• Dessert: Cantonese sweet soup with silver ear mushroom, red dates, lily bulbs, lotus seeds and goji berries.
• Both soups are very warming and nourishing , esp. the sweet one, which is almost like a ”beauty soup“ in China.

More abou the Guided Chinese tea experience:

to sign up: https://www.tennoey.be/fr/activiteiten/rencontre-autour-dun-avec-wenwei-zhang

We will start with a short offering ritual using fruits and drinks, to express gratitude to our ancestors and to all the conditions that allow us to gather.

Then, we will share a guided tea tasting of carefully selected teas from different mountains in China, appreciated for their strong Cha Qi and grown in harmony with nature and our health.

Both gatherings will be guided in the same spirit as my regular tea events, emphasizing beauty, presence, and honest and authentic connections. Silence may be included at times.

Whenever possible, I provide Chinese ingredients sourced from organic farms in China, produced by farmers who care for their soil. Fresh ingredients are sourced from my cooperative supermarket BEES Coop, and some from Chinese supermarkets in Brussels.

Teas are selected from producers who follow natural rhythms, respect traditional practices, and explore Chinese tea culture in a contemporary context.

Yours,
Wenwei

We receive, we give, we create, and we flourish

Chinese Tea Gathering and Cultural Sharing: Gong Fu Cha

Sat, Feb 21 · 1:00 PM CET

Chinese Tea Tasting with Wenwei, Rue Traversiere, Bruxelles, BE

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The intension for our first tea gathering in 2026 on Sunday, 04 January:

• Being alone together
• Let's walk into the wilderness,
• Let's walk each other home, my people, with tea as our conduit

What people say about Chinese Tea with Wenwei:
“A real revelation”
"Immersive, Informative, Intimate"
"Wholesome"
“Enormous passion for her roots”,
“ The most convivial and informative of tea drinking experiences “
"Beyond tea tasting"
"Gentle healing"

Our gatherings are rooted in the ever-evolving Chinese tea culture.

We explore how contemporary Chinese people enjoy tea in daily life, discover its beauty, and reflect on the philosophies and mindsets behind it.

I also call it an honest tea-sensing experience. Around tea, countless stories have been told or imagined. The story I’d like to share is the one already present — in the tea itself, and in our bodies.

In our stories, we search for “herbal remedies from the mountains and delightful moments at a writing desk”.

We serve top-quality teas that carry a comforting Qi: no jitters but calm, no bitterness but transformation.

For me, it’s like opening a window for European friends to glimpse Chinese tea culture - a taste and a reference point for what tea means back home. In each gathering, we follow the changes of the tea, let our imagination wander, and enjoy the journies it takes us on.

Not a ceremony, not a tradition
beyond tasting, beyond organic

To give you an idea, below is an example of the teas we served:

Depending on the number of participants and the time we have,
we will taste 3 to 5 different teas, experiencing
the terroir of the mountains,
the character of heirloom varietals,
the artistry of suitable processing methods,
and immersing ourselves in an Eastern aesthetic.

Yellow Tea - Wild Laochuan tea from the Hengduan Mountains, Sichuan
heirloom varietal, Spring 2025. First flush, first pluck; grown by nature, with abundant tea energy (chaqi).

Oolong Tea - Dongfang Meiren (Oriental Beauty) from Fujian, bitten by small green leafhoppers, 2024. From an ecological tea garden, with intertwining honey, floral, and fruity aromas.

Dark Tea (Hei Cha) - Heirloom varietal tea trees, semi-wild in deep mountains, Spring 2016. Fresh woody and floral notes, pure dark tea with a cooling sensation, and a pronounced Hui Gan ( Returning Sweetness )

Black Tea (Hong Cha) - Zhengshan Xiaozhong (Lapsang Souchong) from Tongmu, Wuyi Mountains – heirloom varietal, Spring 2023.
Withered and smoked over native pinewood inside village houses, then roasted. Pine smoke fragrance with longan-sweet liquor and floral undertones.

If you'd like, you can also try brewing the tea in Gong Fu styl yourself.

"The only thing that does not change is change itself", this also applies to Chinese tea culture. We are excited to hold a space where we create our unique experience together.

The teas may be different for each gathering , but the love and passion we infuse will be just as strong, and for some of you, it will be a real revelation.

Reserve your spot for this convivial and informative gathering in an intimate circle, where everyone shares, and every sense is engaged.

Warmly,
Wenwei Zhang

36€/ person
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