BLOOMING TEA

This type tea is very attractive, but can come with issues: generally, it's not a good quality tea it's usually an artificially flavoured (jasmine or peach) green the cheap ones are covered with a thin plastic glaze to keep the tea flower together the hand-tied, better quality ones are expensive I have had a couple of good ones from ITC and from Dragon Tea House that were hand-tied, not too expensive and tasty Just be wary. Shen

These "artistic teas" are a huge craze in China right now and everybody seems to be promoting them. Most of them look better than they taste.

--scott