I infuse till the leaves look like mistletoe. The Green Jade and
A-Li-Shan suspend very nicely. I'm not a big fan of multi infusions
but the A-Li-Shan holds up better than the Green Jade. I didn't
mention the price of the Good Young Co A-Li-Shan $10/100g. Damn if I
didn't notice that my last purchase of Xue Feng TiKuanYin from
Chinatown also didn't have some leaves on stems. Not consistent and
harder to spot because the leaves infuse on the bottom and you have to
swirl the mass back up in the pot to notice.

Jim

Josh wrote:
> Sounds like a tasty tea at a reasonable price, I'll have to keep an
eye
> out for that. I've had jade oolongs that looked like that, some
bigger
> leaves than others. It's quite interesting to pull out half a shrub
> from your teapot! Another great thing about those very tightly rolled
> big leaves is that you can get lots of infusions out of them, greatly
> reducing the price per FLAVORFUL cup. I love seeing 3/4 of the leaf
> still tightly rolled after the first infusion, means the next cup
will
> have just as much flavor.