What a divine experience to talk to David Zhou at Oriental Teahouse in South Yarra on the eve of their 20th birthday celebrations. David is softly spoken with a wealth of wisdom and knowledge about his teas, hospitality and people. While we spoke, I was treated to a glorious pot of David’s calm concentrate tea, made with goji berries, lychees and other ingredients and which became more and more caramel flavoured as the conversation went on and is designed to nourish the heart and sharpen your mind. I also ate incredibly flavoursome twice cooked ginger prawn dumplings which are pan fried and then steamed in ginger juice and the chilli wagyu beef dumplings marinated in kaffir lime in a homemade chili oil.. The 20-year celebrations will bring together the Yum Cha experience diners have come to love over the last two decades and will be happening in both the CBD and South Yarra venues on the 23rd and 24th August. If you know, you know, and you can expect such beauties and the Lamb Cumin dumplings from 2015, Treasure Dumplings from 2005 and the cheese and bacon spring rolls from 2018. There will be other dishes as well as tea tasting and a really good chance to appreciate all the work that David and his family have put into making Oriental Teahouse what it is today.