Name: Discovering Gong Fu Tea | The Adam Friedland Show
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Discovering Gong Fu Tea | The Adam Friedland Show' from TAFS Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-11-24. Transcript available.

The what?
Kung Fu Tea.
What is it?
It's like tea kung fu.
It's making tea, but like in a karate style.
Really?
And there's a subreddit for it that I found a while back.
No, I mean, it's amazing.
Like, session on the road.
Having a tea making.
I mean, the videos are hilarious.
You're going to love this.
The videos are hilarious because they have all of these tea sets.
But they're like, they're like.
You just broke.
Like they do, they do, they like, they spill it.
Well, that's how they do it.
They do it.
They do it messy?
Yeah, they make a giant mess making the tea.
How they make it with a sword?
I wish I could, I wish I could, I could remember.
Just look up a video of it.
I gotta see this.
Yeah, hold on.
Here, I need a paper towel.
Oh my God.
I didn't realize.
I thought there was just water.
Get a paper towel.
I thought there was just water.
No, take your pack, dude.
Yeah.
Throw me that paper towel.
It's amazing the stuff you can get into when you've never had sex.
All right.
All right.
Who, is it like a, it's like an ancient ritual kind of thing?
Is that what they're saying?
Yeah, it's just like a...
I'm here to talk about how to brew tea, Gong Fu style.
The thing that's involved is to do a quick rinse.
So you...
These guys are not doing a fastener.
You can half fill your pot if you want.
They like pour it all over the...
And the first infusion of a Gong Fu tea method is about 50 seconds.
So after you rinse the leaves, you refill your teapot, and you let it sit for
about 50 seconds.
Yeah, I wish I had brought this up when I found this subreddit, because I found
it.
Yeah, that guy, that guy, he was too normal.
Huh?
Was that guy too normal, or was he a loser?
Which one?
The one making the Gong Fu tea?
I'm just trying to find somebody doing it fast, because the video I saw of the
guy doing it,
they spill it, they spill the water all over like the table, like preparation
area.
Because it's like, you know, you want to...
It's like a dance.
Yeah, right.
Yeah, yeah.
There's a...
It's a martial art.
Yeah.
It comes from...
It comes from the invasion of the Mongols, where when fighting didn't work, you
had to
aggressively make tea.
Nice morning session with oolong.
My gaiwan has a hairline crack running down the side.
Oh, no.
Any suggestions on how to fix?
Nice morning session.
My dry Gong Fu setup.
These guys, oh my God, they suck.
That website sucks.
Reddit fucking sucks.
Dude, it stinks.
Everyone there sucks on writing about anything.
Yeah, that you have a community.
They just make everything suck.
I mean, I'm right.
Even a cool thing.
You can make it suck.
They just ruin everything.
Yeah.
My setup for today.
Mm-hmm.
Oh my God.
Even the ones where they post porn.
Yeah.
You just read the comments.
Great boobs.
And it's just like, they're ruining, they're ruining porn.
Great boobs here.
Yeah, great boobs.
Tuesday morning boobs.
Oh my God.
I'm like soaking wet.
I didn't really think I spilled that much water.
It's okay, dude.
It's physical comedy.
Yeah.
Oh my God.
The communities.
The communities.
It fucking sucks, those people.
Everything they write about.
And every comment is wrong.
Like when they like talk.
Anytime I've ever read them like write about art in any capacity, they're just
wrong.
Any movie, they're wrong.
Yeah.
Every take for some, somehow.
Where everything's kind of binary on there.
Where everything has, it's either, it's like yes or no.
It's yes or no.
So like there's no such thing as subjective opinions.
Yes.
There's a dominant like authoritative opinion on something.
Yeah.
And then if you deviate from that, on something like wholly and essentially
subjective.
If you deviate from the authoritative opinion, then you're incorrect.
It's like saying like, if you said like, I don't like the taste of birthday
cake, then
on the birthday cake subreddit, they'd be like, can you believe how factually
incorrect
this man is?
Can you believe?
Can you believe this?
He said he doesn't like it.
But just, just being like such a, like, such a, like a fucking daffodil about
it.
Yeah.
Being like, I can't believe.
Can you, are you fucking serious?
Are you, oh my God.
Just being such a, just being such a, like there's no other word other than f***
it.
There's just, there's no, I was trying to find a different word.
Just about every, even sports.
I've like, I read sports reddits and then like, they like, we'll put like up a
clip of
someone like scoring a touchdown or dunking it and then guys will just be like,
I'm getting
hard.
Like, just talk about like, I'm fully chubbed for this one.
Just about a f***, like, it's, it's not supposed to be sexual.
It's, it is crazy.
Gong Fu tea.
81 minutes of relaxing Gong Fu tea videos.
Yeah.
So this is, this is s***.
Like there's, so this is, they, they pour it, they pour the water all over.
On like a plank?
Then they pour it all over everything.
It's a mess.
It's a mess.
They just make a mess.
What is this?
Is that a rock?
They have little stat, they have little statues that they pour the tea all over.
Hey Doug, he asked why the tea is served in such small portions in Gong Fu tea.
And the reason is because the flavor of the tea changes as the tea progresses.
Let's use this tea orange as an example.
The first tea comes out pretty light and fragrant.
So this steep is usually used mostly for smell.
Remember this color when we get to the second steep.
In Gong Fu tea tradition, this first steep is poured out over your tea pets.
They tell you if it's ready.
You pour it out over little f***ing figurines.
Immediately, look at how much darker it is.
If we were steeping it in one giant pot or mug, you could do that.
But then the flavor from the second steep would be mixing with the fragrance
from the first steep.
You wouldn't be able to tell these differences.
Part of the tradition of Gong Fu tea is appreciating the tea in all of the
different stages of its progression.
You could do that with a tea bag.
You could do that with a tea bag.
If you want your own tea oranges, they're on my site.
You can go to the link in my bio.
I made a video with these tea oranges where I said you could steep it 15 times.
And people are like, oh, we're the internet.
Oh, Pooh-er.
So let me show you.
Actually, I think I have a friend that's, I think, maybe into this.
I just realized.
What?
I think Ari is into this.
Oh, is he?
I don't think he makes a mess.
He's a very tidy guy.
He's spilling it everywhere.
Whereas he's so...
That's because it's the lightest and it's used to open up the leaves.
The second steep, you can already see, it's already getting darker.
As the leaves open up, their fragrance and their flavor starts to come out.
See, already a good shade darker.
You can tell the difference already between the left and the right.
Now we get into the third steep.
This is Pooh-er tea.
The best steeps are usually, I'd say...
Yeah, Pooh-er is like a fermented barley tea that these guys love.
Then I give you one extra and bam.
The progression is pretty clear.
From the beginning, it takes about three to four steeps to really open up.
And then it just keeps going.
In Chinese, they have a word called Nai Paul.
Nai is like patient and Paul is to steep.
So a patiently steepable tea could do many, many steeps.
Check it out.
Nai Paul.
So after 11 steeps, I can finally try some.
But first, you've got to give some to the G-pets.
They were patient.
Oh, my God.
They're very dark and earthy, but also fruity because of the feel.
Great place to start if you want high-quality tea.
Link to Zim, I'm not right.
So he gets one sip of tea.
Yeah, one sip of tea, half of which you're supposed to spill on toys.
On toys.
You keep them on the table, yeah.
You spill it on your fucking Funko Pops.
Yeah.
Jesus Christ.
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