With the new year's celebration winding down a bit, I forayed into Oakland Chinatown to again check on my mysterious tea. This is a very dark oolong, with very small leaves and teeny-weeny yellow seeds and very, very delicate flavours that run the gamut from an orange- blossomy (but not kwai ((osmanthus)) or orange blossoms) to a very fine, slightly jasminey flavour in the later infusions. Initially, I remembered the label to read "Six Fragrances"; but, yesterday the label was translated as Six Harmonies. I know in Buddhism we refer to the six ordinances occasionally as "the six harmonies" and I know there is a temple and pagoda in Hangzhou called "six harmonies" and there is a tea plantation in that immediate area that harvests green (Longjing tea farms). I really like this tea and would love to know what it is. The folks in the tea/herb store could give me no information except that yesterday's was a new batch and it came from mainland China. They are not really "tea people" and do say, however, that this tea is very popular with both their Vietnamese and their Chinese patrons. It runs about $22.00 a pound at this writing. If anyone has any info on this tea, I would so appreciate since I am so fond of this very subtlely scented tea. Thanks to all in advance. Shen
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