What is this tea???
Here’s a picture:
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Got this as a gift quite some time ago from a piano student. It is really good! It looks just like this: http://steepster.com/teas/upton-tea-imports/1807-formosa-tung-ting-jade-oolong-tt86, but the one I got from Upton has more stems and debris in it. This one has really beautiful leaves, and in the canister are a whole bunch of little darling vacuum sealed foil bags with an additional plastic wrapper inside holding about 1 1/2 tbsp of tea each. It’s a greenish oolong, very smooth and flavorful. Closer to green tea than black, but more body than most green teas I’ve tried. I’d love to get more of this. All I know is that the woman who gave it to me is Chinese, and she said that this tea was her favorite. Unfortunately, I am no longer in touch with her and can’t get any details on where to get it.
Looks like a Qing Xiang Tieguanyin (if I’m making that out right – I think that’s what the label says), but I don’t know what company that is from. Trying to find a similar label so I can identify the company. Would help if I could read Chinese.
I agree, it’s a Tie Guan Yin, a type of Chinese oolong. You should be able to find that sort of oolong in loads of places, it’s quite common. That very same one might not be easily available to you online (perhaps ebay is a possibility here?) but there are lots of other places and online tea shops that carry some sort of TGY in a variety of qualities. Since you enjoy it so much, I would definitely recommend exploring the type further. :)
a google search for Qing Xiang Tieguanyin leads to at least a couple of blogs that you can probably connect with to find their source :D
A coworker of mine has some of the same stuff- also a gift from a Chinese business associate. Trying to track it down is difficult.
I have had some luck with eBay. The vacuum sealed foil bags seems to be a popular way of packaging tea- I think each bag is enough to make a large pot? Anyway, if you do a search on eBay for “Tie Guan Yin” you will see several for sale directly from China, all in the little foil pouches. I have had some luck just matching the little bags by look/ by the picture on eBay.
I would also encourage anyone that has not done so already to peruse the entire “Tea” category on eBay (http://www.ebay.com/sch/Tea-/38181/i.html). Not necessarily to buy anything, but I just love looking at all the different kinds of things I will never see in any store here in the US.
Thanks everybody! That eBay tip was sure useful. Didn’t find this exact one, but I can imagine finding it someday because there are similar ones there. :)
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