Looking for "Anji Bai Pian" tea

It sounds like a Chinese patent medicine and I couldn't find it in any of my books. Anji Bai is probably the name of the herbal and Pian is tablet. Most chinatowns have an apothocary so you could check there. My experience you need the Chinese characters because the transliteration is for non chinese. However you will see it on the bottle so you could spot it yourself.

Jim

No, it's a green tea from Anji county in Zhejiang province. As for getting it in the US, I don't know, but there's a Chinese site that appears to wholesale it:

/Lew

It's still might be medicinal like pu-erh. There is another website page describing the pharmaceutical properites. Bai also means bitter so something like Anji bitter tablet. I'm still convinced it is used for apothecary purposes. It's a 'famous' tea I've never seen or brewed.

Jim

Regard the identification of Anji Bai Pian, Lewis is right LZ

Maybe just a crop report but some biochemical properties in English but mostly Chinese.

Jim

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The first meaning of "pian" is slice, flake: a slice of bread, of ham, of anything. It might mean tablet in the case of medicine, film in the case of cinema, and flat flake-like (open) leaves in the case of tea. There is no character pronunced "bai" which means bitter, for what I know.

So that accounts for the slight Chinese character variation between pian for tablet and pian for a leaf grade. I'll have to pay more attention to that character since it also might mean large leaf grade and bai for white indicating oxidation. When I shop for tea in a Chinese store I use the characters because anything else is guess work about Romanize names.

Thanks, Jim

That page doesn't talk about Anji Bai Pian; it's about Anji Baicha.

/Lew

And the difference being?

Jim

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I will try to find more information about it, and by now I can just report that Anji Baicha is a variety of plant (the one of the article), while Anji Baipian is a kind finished product (half pan-fired and half basked-fired green). I couldn't find any reference to the fact that the latter is made out of the former. LZ

Anji Bai Pian, means An Ji white leaves from the Anji-county. It used to be one of my favourite teas and i can still purchase it from my friend's shop in small quantities. Most of the tea leaves are buds, and are harvested from wild tea plants, rather than plantations. The leaves are normally white when they are on the plant, but often made to be a green tea rather than a white tea. Fragrance's rather unique, it smells a little like a rather green oolong when you sniff the first brew, but when you drink it, its smooth like a white tea. if you have this tea, its best to keep it in the fridge, because the fragile scents can be easily oxidised and lost when exposed to room temperature and air.