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I am back and I have brought some Oolong with me. For some reason it seems like the majority of Oolong I see has some type of herbal mix blended with it. If it was a lower grade Oolong I could understand but for other grades, like the one I'm drinking, it just seems to be a waste of good Oolong.

Name: Fragrant Oolong
Type: Oolong
Company: China Mist
Purchased: Marshells in Newark, New Jersey
Comments: I've never liked the smell of Oolong and this one didn't do any better in that category. The taste however makes up for that. It's light and has a nice China tea finish to it.

What's your favorite Oolong?

OOOOOooolong

Happy Sunday everyone!

For Christmas…… I didn’t get any tea. I think people around me figure that I’m so tea crazy that they will just end up getting something I’ve already tasted. However, my mother received some Oolong tea from a friend of hers and it is very good.
Everything about this tea is impressive, right down to the packaging. The canister is shaped like a cylinder with Taiwanese characters. Most of it is translated, including the main paragraph on the front. I think the coolest part would be the ink painting though. It’s black and white and depicts a small mountain village next to a lake. Of course it’s just a copy but still it’s very beautiful.
In the canister the tea in held inside a golden plastic (I think) packet. The name TenRen’s Tea is printed all over the packet along with Taiwanese characters. And then there is the tea.

Name: High Mountain Oolong Tea
Type: Oolong
Company: Ten Ren’s Tea
Purchased: Mom’s friend said she purchased it in Taiwan.
Comments/ Taste: The first thing I noticed when I opened the bag was the smell. Tea doesn’t always smell good even if it tastes good but this one has a very earthy Asian smell to it. Quite wonderful. And the taste is also quite pleasing. I accidentally let it steep a couple minutes longer then I meant to but it didn’t ruin the flavor at all.


I think I am a new fan of Oolong. Do you have any Oolong teas that you have tried recently?

Somewhere between Green & Black

So far we have gone over three of the four main groups of tea. Today we are going to talk about the finally group called Oolong. Click on the picture above to find out about Oolong health benefits.

Name: Dragon Eye

Type:  Oolong, Fruit, Safflower (Only added here and not in the tags because safflower is not used in many teas)

Company: Revolution

Purchased: P.F. Chang

Taste: Excellent flavor that has a smooth aftertaste.

                This was actually my first time having an Oolong tea and I was quite impressed with the flavor. Although I will at some point have to try an Oolong without any other flavors added.

For those of you that don’t know, Oolong is a traditional Chinese tea that tends to be somewhere between green and black tea when oxidized. It has more of the green tea flavor but darker black tea color; however, it does not contain the grassy notes that green tea generally has. There are many different varieties of Oolong, just depending on where it’s harvested from and of course how it’s processed.