A step-by-step guide to brewing in a 120 ml gaiwan: how much leaf, the water temperature for each Nepal Hills tea, short steep times, and how to hold and pour without burning your fingers.

Gongfu's repeated short infusions and Western tea's single longer steep pull the same caffeine and catechins from the leaf on different schedules. Here's what the extraction science actually shows, and which Nepal Hills teas hold up best across...