Mysterious SF tea

On my recent trip I got some tea described by the herbalist as 'forever young green tea'. He said it was similar to LongJing. The leaves are flat with indentation marks. I made sure he wrote the characters which never look like typographic fonts. After some work, I came up with Si4Ji4 meaning 'four seasons' and traditional Chang2 character meaning 'forever/long/length' for the first three characters followed by the two characters Qing1 Cha2 for green tea. I get some hits with Google but lousy Internet connection prevent any substantial web page display. Does this tea ring a bell with anybody.

Jim

PS Sorr, I cant even post the characters.

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Space Cowboy
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probably some longjing but not the one from xihu?

no idea..

does it taste good?

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Jazzy

The intact leaf is about inch long and thin. It could be processed like West Lake except for the 'tread marks' like it went through a press. I see some Google Chinese .CN and .TW references but I hardly cant even download Google Groups. The taste doesn't hold up to multiple infusions. It's just another green from some area in China with it's own taste, light and floral.

Jim

PS My three taels runneth over.

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Space Cowboy

Get some pics for us and maybe it will help more. I guess your idea below about a tea "from some place in China" is pretty spot on. The floral thing sounds kinda like it's zhejiang style instead of being grassy and green like other places' tea. Maybe the local tea of Wenzhou called Zao Niu or something similar.

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Mydnight

Hi Jim, your mentioning "indentation marks" kind of reminded me of the criss-cross pattern of Tai Ping Hou Kui (sometimes called Monkey King). Since the leaves are pressed flat, I could also see someone comparing it to Long Jing. Pictures would definitely help, but it sounds like that would put even more strain on your connection.

Jo

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Jo

I'm sure I got the herbalist hand written Chinese characters right. They don't match Tai Ping Hou Kui. If that leaf has a obvious hatch or checkered pattern then that is probably what I have in the sense no other leaf I have looks like it long, slender, hatch.

Jim

PS When I get my > Hi Jim,

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Space Cowboy

Wu Niu Zao, maybe?

/Lew

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Lewis Perin

I was able to sneak a peak at Jing's Early Spring LJ teas including Wu Niu Zao. Mine looks like any of them at that distance. The hatch pattern is so prominent but not mentioned there. The Wu Niu Zao characters dont match but that doesn't mean anything. I wasn't aware of the varied LJ types and I'm sure this is one (like Tai Ping ;-)) since the herbalist mentioned it was similar to LJ.

Jim

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Space Cowboy

as long is is good to drink with a good price then what the heck! hehe unless it is such an expensive tea like dragonwell!

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Jazzy

Pedigrees aren't that important. As it turns out there aren't that many unknown teas from China. I thought the hatch marks would help nail it down.

PS So I'm sitting at my local tea shoppe yesterday drinking a cup of

2007 FF Darjeeling listening to the owner go on and on about the taste. To me it is just another cup of Darjeeling. It struck me about the recent discussion of Oriental Beauty. Someones's favorite versus another tea on the shelf. I realized I'll never get it about Darjeeling. I told the owner I just give up. I frequent the shoppe more these days on my bike. He has some teas I don't stock because of price so I drink them there because any pot or cup is the same price.

Jim

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Space Cowboy

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