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

On Feb 20, 1:21 pm, "Shen" wrote:
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


Hi,
there are so many oolong tea in the market, but i can tell you one
thing. if you want to taste a good oolong tea, must choose oolong tea
from Taiwan. there are few one that i can recommend to you, such as
Dong Ding Oolong, Alishan Jixuan or winter oolong tea.
you can visit this website : http://www.jardinduthe.ca/eng/leafTe...nterOolong.htm

have a nice day
H

On Feb 22, 5:30 am, "teaMaster" wrote:
On Feb 20, 1:21 pm, "Shen" wrote:





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

Hi,
there are so many oolong tea in the market, but i can tell you one
thing. if you want to taste a good oolong tea, must choose oolong tea
from Taiwan. there are few one that i can recommend to you, such as
Dong Ding Oolong, Alishan Jixuan or winter oolong tea.
you can visit this website :http://www.jardinduthe.ca/eng/leafTe...nterOolong.htm

have a nice day
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Please stop advertising your web site.
I am familiar with oolongs. Just not this one.
Thank you.
Shen