11/17/03


> Lewis Perin > wrote in message
> >...
>> Michael Plant > writes:
>>
>>> [...]
>>> Please enlighten me regarding the Guangxi tea story, whatever that means.
>>> (We can count Guangxi as SE China, can we not?)
>>
>> Well, it's been a while and nobody's tried to answer this, so ...
>>
>> Guangxi is certainly southern, but it's west of Guangdong, which is on
>> the South China Sea. Guangxi actually *means* something like Wide West.
>>
>> /Lew
>> ---
>> Lew Perin /
>> http://www.panix.com/~perin/babelcarp.html
>
> GuangXi is famous for it's Gui Flower type tea and Look Bow/ Liu Bao.
> Look Bow's taste is similar to Shu Puerh. Most people cannot tell
> whether it is Look Bow or Sook Pau Leh / Shu Puerh.

Aha. I'm going to do a little search for these. Meanwhile, could you kindly
describe their tastes a little bit.

Thanks.

Michael