On May 7, 12:19 pm, Space Cowboy > wrote:
> The Chinese as scam artists is getting thin. How do you know your so
> called Taiwanese teas aren't from some mainland front company on the
> island selling your friends doctored tea? Dong Ding is the only
> description I know that identifies the TKY exported to Taiwan way
> back. Dong Ding is the only Fujian description I know that looks like
> what is produced in Taiwan today. Nobody is trying to con anybody.
> It's a matter of getting the usage correct. When I buy Yunnan Silver
> Needles I know the difference from Fujian.
>
> Jim
>
> PS I want to mimic Taiwan teas. I'll doctor BenShan. That'll
> fool'em. I'll go you one better. Tea can't hide the taste of
> anything. You can hide the taste of tea.
>
> On May 6, 5:06 am, Mydnight > wrote:
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> > On May 5, 10:32 pm, Space Cowboy > wrote:
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> > > PS The only tea I've tasted from Fujian that tastes very close to
> > > Taiwan mtn teas is BenShan. In fact I will say I probably couldn't
> > > tell the two apart in a blind taste test.
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> > The spooky thing about the mainland Wulongs is that you have no idea
> > what kinds of chemicals they add to their teas to make them taste that
> > way. There's no way to know what kind of tea you actually get,
> > anyway, unless you have friends in the business.- Hide quoted text -
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The only way that it could be Dongding TGY is if it was a TGY varietal
grown in Dongding (a place in Taiwan). Dongding is the name of a
place, not a varietal. TGY is the name of a varietal, not a place.
There is TGY from Taiwan, but it's from Muzha, near Taipei, whereas
Dongding is in the middle of the island. If you took a varietal from
Dongding to Anxi and grew it there, it still wouldn't be Dongding TGY,
it would be Anxi luanze, or whatever varietal it was. Dongding TGY is
a contradiction in terms.

SN - can you post some pictures of each tea, both dry leaf and after
steeping?