On Apr 4, 10:28*am, (Scott Dorsey) wrote:
In article ,

wrote:
In the past I've had hit and miss experiences with TenRen, one white
tea in a clear bag was average, another tea I don't remember also
wasn't too exciting, but recently I got their dark oolong 2nd grade
and ti kuan yin 3rd grade and for the price they're excellent in my
estimation. Which other teas are good there, and which ones are not so
good? How much could I save by ordering the same tea from stores like
teaspring and hao de which are in China? thx! -ak

The Ten Ren teas are all from Taiwan, and are different than mainland
Chinese teas.

I did not notice this in the store, but on the site they have 2
separate
categories, china ti kuan yin and taiwan ti kuan yin. Didn't check all
the other types..


The pricing and quality at Ten Ren do not seem to be correlated well
at all. *I strongly recommend getting the second to lowest grade Oriental
Beauty tea, and also their second lowest grade tikuanyin. *Most of their
more expensive teas are very overpriced. * Oh yes, and the cheapest osmanthus
is worth trying if you like flavoured teas; as you go to higher grades they
seem to get more heavily scented and the tea flavours are lost under the
osmanthus flavours.
--scott
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"C'est un Nagra. *C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

That's interesting.. I'm not really into flavored teas, but I got
their 2nd to last
grade of ti kuan yin (which is 'grade 3' according to the website),
and it's very
noticeably inferior to 3rd from last tung ting 'dark oolong', which is
'grade 2' in
the store. However, in the store it didn't say whether it's chinese or
taiwan
ti kuan yin, so this may be a different tea.. Which one did you try
and where
did you get it? thanks!