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Some surprises in Chinatown

I can across my first commercial packages of BiLouChun and DaHongPao. Both comes in the glass jars from the couple of Chinese companies making hard to find Chinese teas more available and affordable. The DHP was still expensive at 2oz/$10 and BLC at 5oz/$10 which is ballpark. I also got my first two commercial packages of TenRen locally available in Taiwan and not export. One was a TungTing at $6/150g with tart taste and my first green tea from Taiwan. TenRen called it "non fermented". It wasn't pouchong. It was reasonable at $6/200g. The local site is MyTenRen. You'll also see some of their puer. Does anyone know if Taiwan can make puer? I see it availabe from other Taiwan vendors but I would think it must be imported. I asked one Chinese owner why she didn't stock more compressed puer. She said the past year local DimSum restaurants buy her out and charge outrageous prices to serve. She said everybody gives her phone numbers to call when she gets some in. I could tell she didn't want another one.

PS: I came across some more pouchong packaging with the Qing character previously suggested by Lew. It must be the meaning in Taiwan.

Jim

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Space Cowboy
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Taiwan makes some very high quality green puerhs and also aged oolongs compressed into bing cha cakes. I can post some pics if you tell me where.

Sasha.

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Alex Chaihorsky

Sasha you tease. Forget the pics. Tell us where to get some.

Jim

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Space Cowboy

Jim,

One of these - Fou Shou Hei Cha (Buddha hand) I get from a close friend who is a top importer of Taiwan teas into Russia. Take a look at this tea at the english version of his site

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You can contact him at the email on the web site and may be he can send you these cakes directly from Taiwan. Mentioning my name will assure that you will be treated as a friend :)

Sasha.

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Alex Chaihorsky

Here is the pic, BTW -

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Sasha.

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Alex Chaihorsky

Thanks Sasha. I've been plowing through the .TW sites that sell Puer. So far, compressed just from the mainland and nothing from Taiwan. I do see loose with Taiwan brands which is on Ebay. That Buddha hand looks yummy.

Jim

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Space Cowboy

Sasha, sorry to butt in, the teas on that site look interesting to me though. But it looks like he doesn't sell online just in his Russian shop, is that right?

Melinda

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Melinda

Cowboy, Melinda -

This tea has an interesting feature - I brew it for 20 times and it does not loose the ability to produce quite dark soup even then. The color is dark yellow without as much as a hint of red. Also it stays rolled/crinkled - I mean it never completely unfold into leaves.

Sergei does not sell here but there is always a possiblity... He may sell you some tea and put it together with the tea he sends to me once in a while. Or he may send you the tea directly from Taiwan. he is leaving for Taiwan tomorrow - so if you send him an email, who knows...

Sasha.

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Alex Chaihorsky

The two Chinese characters for Buddha Palm also mean Bergamot. I look around on the .TW sites and see more meanings like Dong Ding Wulong Buddha Palm and occasional description for Earl Grey. If I read between the lines on the Russian site the cake is a compressed oolong and not puer. What you describe is how my one Taiwan aged oolong looks after several infusions. It just stays 'crinkled'. So I think Buddha Palm is an term for compressed tea and not flavoring or puer. I need to do some more digging. The real problem Google doesn't like BIG5 and Babelfish errors out because some of the characters aren't BIG5 pairs. I can drill down and covert to Unicode but like looking for a needle in a haystack. I don't pest people just to handle my special request. Just knowing Taiwan is producing compressed cakes of something is worth checking out.

Jim

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Space Cowboy

No, I don't think so. Fo Shou is widely available as loose leaves.

/Lew

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Lewis Perin

It is edible, indeed! It is all peel, so you can use it for anything that you use citrus peel for. It makes wonderful marmalade, and extremely good ice cream. It's citrus but flowery at the same time.

I like to slice it up and put it in tea sometimes.

--scott

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Scott Dorsey

you can order high quality oolong tea from taiwan at

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howard

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