I’m a bit behind posting this, but my wife and I played our first game of Formosa Tea this weekend. I’ve been looking for a game about tea that had theme rather than just setting, and, while there is a good bit of abstraction, I think Formosa Tea does it.
On a turn, one can harvest tea, begin to process tea, finish processing tea, and trade to the domestic and global markets. I especially enjoy the relationship of harvesting tea to processing and the grading system for the teas one produces. Harvesting pushes the tea processing along for everyone who is processing tea (time passing, I think), which in a game of more than two players could get very think-y. Tea is graded into three grades based on its moisture and flavor, which are the result of decisions made at harvest and during processing, but better teas generally require either more time or better technology (which also often requires more time, but which can be used over and over). And those are just my highlights.
I will definitely be playing again.