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18 Blooms Handmade Blooming Flower Tea (Jasmine, Green) from Chinese Kung Fu Tea Art eBay Store

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18 Blooms Handmade Blooming Flower Tea (Jasmine, Green)

Green Tea by Chinese Kung Fu Tea Art eBay Store

Tea Type : Mix Jasmine Tea, Green Tea, Flower and Herbal Tea.

Origin: Fuzhou, China

1. Butterfly Love Flowers 2. First Love 3. Smell of Osmanthus 4. Jasmine Fairy 5. Raising Up 6. Four Season 7. Dawn Rainbow 8. The Flowers Bridge 9. The Marigold 10. 7 Fairies On The Moon 11. Eternity 12. The Carnation 13. Sky High Saussurea 14. World Championship 15. The Carnation 16. The Shellfish and Pearls 17. Love 18. Double Dragons

3 Tasting Notes

malomorgen
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malomorgen 3 tasting notes

First one was number 13 – Sky High Saussurea.
It didn’t look quite like it looks on the photo. Similar but without the extra white flower going high up from the red central flower. This one had just a big red flower and wrapped leaves around it. Rather big tho. Doesn’t look bad. In fact i left it standing in a glass bowl in the kitchen as decoration.
Tea is yellow. Rather light.
Tastes well herbal. Not so much as green teas I’ve had. Almost reminds me more of that special taste that silver needle has. White silver needle. It’s not as good tho. But it’s probably better than i expected.
Smells like silver needle. Didn’t taste that, to me, unpleasant jasmine taste. That’s a plus.
I filmed the opening of the flower – is nice to watch it. Might upload it on youtube and post the link sometime.
So it tastes similar to silver needle but not quite as goof but it looks nice. Solid rating…

Pic http://twitpic.com/1ejnl2 .

I wanted to pick a special one for my 100. tasting note. Flowering one makes most sense.
It was a random pick: Jasmine Fairy.

Hope it doesn’t taste very jasmine-like ;)

Tea is very bright and yummy. Like white tea that’s smooth and slightly nutty. And flowery. Nice flavor. I’m not getting the bad side of jasmine here. Flower is quite nice but i got pics and video to show that. I intended to film the whole opening of the flower but managed to f* up (pardon my bad manners) the process. So there’s a clip with just a bit of it and a pic…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XmmWf_n654 (it’ll be better next time)
http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l188/malomorgen/Teas/jf.jpg

Had 2 more last few days. First one looked bit boring – like it didn’t even open properly. But second one was kinda awesome :D Here are links to the pics (http://twitpic.com/1lbxud http://twitpic.com/1lbxuf ). Tasted quite yummy too. It had something resembling silver needle. Like more white than green. Really not bad for a flowering tea…

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