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Well, in Hong Kong, some go to dimsum restaurants to drink tea in the morning with greasy dimsums or even a bowl of steamed rice with meat in it. In the afternoon, however, some others, or the same people, have sweetened milk tea or tea blended with coffee, the eat can be toast, soup noodle or a huge choice of baked goods.
Of course, there are people who do afternoon tea like the British too, and there are those who do it gongfu style in hideaway teahouses.
The majority, however, a mug of oolong or even lemon tea at their desks would already be a luxury, cause piled on the other side would be mountains of documents awaiting processing.
@PCHOW, if you are looking for top quality Keemun black tea, please consider contacting us at teahong@teahong.com
Hi ‘Manila’,
I am happy that you posted the question here at Tea Guardian. I know this is very confusing. Tea categorisation really should be easier to understand. I shall talk to Leo about this same question which has been asked a few times before you did. Hopefully he will write more to clarify that.
As for why Oriental Beauty is an oolong, it is really a complete oolong process and beyond. The oxidation in our selection is deeper than some others but not unusual. A complete oolong process is composed of withering under the sun, shading to regain water, rattling the leaves before oxidation, repeating the process, killing green, rolling, resting and baking dry. In black tea processing, such as that for Imperial Topaz from the Himalayas, the oolong steps are omitted and only the shorter black tea steps make the tea. You can see the comparison in Leo’s articles in:
The degree of oxidation in black tea production varies from very light, like in Himalayan Finest Flowery, or some Darjeeling, to very thorough, like in Red Plum Classic or Dianhong Golden.
So the process determines the category, not the degree of oxidation.
Hopefully that clarifies it and you enjoy either tea without the puzzle!
Glad to hear that you like our puers. As for our plans, please be prepared that although we try, they will be implemented only very slowly. We are a very tiny company that everyone is loaded with many things to do.
@miig, Thank you for your kind suggestions. As a matter of fact, these are some of the things that will be launched at our shop one at a time:
- A variety of pack size for each of most tea selections, so you would have larger quantity (and/or smaller) as options
- An expanded collection of pu’ers
- An improved shop structure for more info, customer interactivity and help in tea selection
Seems like you have set ear-dropped on us 😉We have been learning how to distribute respectable quality tea online and will continue to improve on how to it. It has been customer suggestions such as yours that help us look clearer at the picture. Please continue to give us such generous comments.Weird cases of custom retainment or postal delays do very occasionally happen. We have 5 reported cases so far. I am so very sorry for that happened to yours. It is one thing that is extremely difficult for us to deal with. We are not even quite sure sometimes why things like that happen.Thank you again for your kind comments, and please do share with us what you think about the teas.It is better to mature Phoenix oolongs in slightly larger batches. 250 / 500 g per pack is good. It is better not to disturb the tea during maturation. Checking once about 4 months is ok for Phoenix, but better yet in a year. Make sure your container is light and air tight, and put the tea in a place away from the elements. Make sure also that your skin do not touch the leaves when you put them into the container. We are about to roll out new pack formats of larger sizes, but maybe not soon enough for you.
Okay, let’s start by you answering these questions:
- How large is the farm, area? How many tea trees? Number of people working in it? How many families?
- What equipment do you use to process the tea?
- When and how frequent are the leaves plucked?
- What do you do in this farm?
- What is your relationship with the owner?
- Abardare Ranges is a large area; can you describe the altitude, the climate and the other produces in the vicinity of your farm?
- Can you take pictures of farm, processing, and tealeaves and share them with me?
We are interested. Would be glad if you provide more info about your farm and tea. You can either send me a message or post it here.
I’ll need time to bring this to our working meetings and if it is a go, for setting up a shipping fees table for your country.
With the exception of puers, we don’t recommend any factories. We have always promoted and believe in family run gardens. This is an important factor in our values.
Here is the link to the puer factory we think is more reliable: https://www.haiwantea.comI think Romania was barred in the beginning because Tea Guardian have had massive hacker or spammer attacks from it so when Leo set up Tea Hong, it was in the blacklist. A few other countries, including China, are in the blacklist because of the same reason.
