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I was also introduced to the wonder that is Chinese tea by Mixjourneyman, must have tasted 100 different varieties of oolongs together, these days I tend to drink Taiwanese high mountain oolongs (Chilai) or Fenghuang Dancong from Guangdong. Very intricate flavour which actually changes as you drink it!

Monkey pick mountain oolong

oh man you all are connoisseurs. unsurprisingly. gotta try these. have had them before but will check out these recs. the super smoky one sounds like love or hate, but sounds interesting.

I recently got some aged Busy Lung Mountain Pu Erh from Wudang West - really incredible stuff.

all kind
if it is Yunan.
Red only after heavy meal.
I like delicat taste of Jap. sencha too.

普洱茶 pu-erh chá. My wife gets it from one of her colleagues who grows it.
珠茶 Zhū chá, aka pearl tea or gunpowder tea
玄米茶 Genmai cha, brown rice tea

There are a lot of others I drink, but those are the main 3

ok so many here recommended pu-erh so i gotta get a bunch of it... pu-erh soaked fist.

Good Pu-erh, IMO, comes in a solid chunk, a brick or a ball. You have to break bits off and put it in hot water

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However with that said I have had some loose that was not to bad

ah ok thanks will look for it in this form factor

Got pu erh but only in Numi bags

Very weird.

Need to find quality loose leaf

Another tea, if you are looking for a smokey flavor is Lapsang souchong. I'm not a fan but I have known a few who are. Also many of the Southern Chinese I know like Jasmine tea, again I am not a fan of it. I do like Tieguanyin, that is a good tea

Just to add to what SCMT said, Lapsang Souchong is a very nice black tea, if you are buying from Chinese vendors it is called Zhengshan Xiaozhong (not sure how the name turned into Lapsang in translation!).

nicklinjm wrote:Just to add to what SCMT said, Lapsang Souchong is a very nice black tea, if you are buying from Chinese vendors it is called Zhengshan Xiaozhong (not sure how the name turned into Lapsang in translation!).

Could it be a dialect thing? I believe it might originate from Fujian province, and virtually no one in China understands fujian

So far, I've tried two brands of pu-erh (only in tea bags). They have a "funny" taste. can't say I dislike it, but not sure I like it.