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I watched Olivier Assayas' film "HHH - A Portrait of Hou Hsiao-Hsien"
yesterday. The film crew visit a cafe in a town where HHH had
previously shot "A City of Sadness", somewhere in the south of Taiwan.
They have a pot of oolong re-roasted or smoked in a charcoal oven. Not
sure that I really like the sound of this, but it sparked my interest.
There was no mention of the style of oolong used. The cafe owner
herself said that it was a "rare & old fashioned" method of
preparation. It was then made in a 2 cup Yixing pot, tray and all.
Anyone come across this method of oolong prep, either in Taiwan or
elsewhere?

I have not seen "City of Sadness" nor the film on HHH, but, if what you saw
was a cilindrical basket, a little narrower at its belly, with a metal net
dividing it in two halves, which was filled with tea leaves in the uppuer
part and placed on a charcoal pit-oven, then you saw a "bei long", a
roasting basket, used for drying tea, as well for the finishing or
"re-fining" of many oolong tea.
Let me know if the description correspond
L