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Default Please help identifying this tea

On Aug 18, 4:30 pm, "Gyorgy Sajo" > wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> My dear sister-in-law received some lovely oolong tea from Taiwan. She was
> very enthusiastic about it and asked me whether I could find some more of
> it. Unfortunately when I spoke to her all the tea was happily gone and she
> could only show me the empty box. She said the dry leaves were very dark, so
> it must been a heavily oxidized - or heavily fired? sorry, I am not an
> expert in oolongs... - oolong.
>
> Unfortunately I can not read any Chinese, so I am completely dependent on
> the expertise and goodwill of this highly estimated group. If any of you can
> identify this tea, and maybe even tell me where I could get more of it -
> preferably from an online source as I live in Europe - I would be very
> thankful.
>
> Here are two pictures of the box:
>
> http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c2...y/Oolong02.jpg
>
> Thanks again,
> Gyorgy


Until an expert comes along, I'd look through the Tie Quan Yins to see
if you can recognize the leaf. Toci