Hi folks, long time no post (happily a result of a long time being nowhere near the internet).
Driving through Zhengzhou this week I happened upon a tea shop with the name
Xin Lin Yu Lu (New Forest Jade Dew)
As Yulu in Kanji is the name for gyokuro I was interested in finding out more about this - was it indeed the name of a chinese green or just the name of the shop? If a tea, could it have Japanese characteristics or indeed be grown & prepared in a similar way to gyokuro? For the record, Zhengzhou is the capital seat of Henan, not anywhere I'd expect to happen upon something spectacular ...
To set minds at rest, it seems to be a variety of Xinyang Maojian, the familiar green (according to another teashop owner I asked last night, albeit through my bad chinese, so could well be wrong). I haven't picked any of it up yet, nor indeed had a look at the leaves to confirm it's a maojian, so if anyone knows different, chirp in.
Im Mr Teas