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[alinachau]

Happy Thanksgiving 🍁🦃The Salut is in view at Gallery Nucleus Portland now 😊 #watercolor #wulongtea #china

[white2tea]

We've never sold a Tieguanyin at white2tea, but after 5 years, we finally found a few worthy candidates. Our #teaclub will get 1st peek at the selection, a set of four traditional tieguanyins, all very high quality examples of a style of tea that gets a bad rap due to a lot of poor quality versions being prevalent in the modern market. We will be sending a tasting set of 4 teas in the October club, so join us and get a Tieguanyin education beyond the common TGY in the mass market #white2tea #tieguanyin #tgy #tikuanyin #fujiantea #fujianprovince #fujian #ironbuddha #irongoddess #oolong #oolongtea #oolonglover #oolongaddict #oolongcha #wulongcha #wulongtea #wulong #tieguanyinoolong #chinesetea #chinatea #steepstergram #chineseteaceremony #chineseteahouse

[ilbollitore-blog]

Nuggets Leaves Dong Ding Tea

I do love when my fiends bring me tea from different part of the worlds … and Valentina brought me the best tea she could find in Dong Guan City of China! Here we go with my funny – and you will understand why – review about the nicest DONG DING OOLONG* TEA I’ve ever tried.

(*sorry @primainfusione​ but form me Oolong will remain written like this, It’s hard for me to switch to the  W-U-LONG typing.)

Receiving the packed of DONG DING tea I thought it was a bag of gold nuggets… the leaves in fact look like tiny little stones. But the impression of a tea-lover friend of mine which tasted this tea with me was different, opening the bag she exclaimed “These leaves look like little bat-shit-nuggets!”

Well…not need to say that we’ve been laughing almost half an hour thinking about the similarity between the tea leaves and the bats’ poop! In spite of the weird, and quite disgusting, affinity... I can ensure you that the taste of this tea was delicious! And half an hour is almost the time you will need to brew it properly.

In fact the traditional western method of 4 minutes at 80 degrees doesn’t work for this tea. The best method to brew it is absolutely the Chinese one, that is brewing the loose leaves in a pot on repeat till 8 times!.

Here 4 must follow brewing steps:

1.       Do wash the tea leaves. How? Just put 4 grams (more or less 10 bud’s nuggets tea leaves) in a small pot (300 ml), and pour boiling water. Wait few second and trough away the water. 

2.       Now the wet-washed leaves are warmed up (cleaned) and reading for the first infusion. Pour again 80-90 degree water over tea and wait 50 seconds, fill in a small cup and taste, many many times till finishing the pot (I suggest you to invite a friend to help ypu if you are not heavy tea-drunker). Go ahead by 50 seconds brewing for the first 3 infusions.

3.       From the 4th time to the 6th better let the leaves dancing in the 80 degree water for 1 minute before tasting the tea again. At this moment the little nuggets will start to open like a blooming lotus flower, showing how big and beautiful they are.

4.       During the 7th infusion you will start to be really drunk of tea, so slow down and wait 2 minutes brewing in order to taste the best last two teapots of Dong Ding.

Tasting notes:

This Dong Ding tea encloses the most typical notes of nuts and hazelnuts, enriched with a white flowers scent and mild like velvet on your tongue.

Pic and Text by Elisa Da Rin Puppel

Thanks to Valentina for the amazing tea

Cheers to Jurga - @primainfusione​ - for the tasting support (and several laughs about the tea leaves shape!)

[eclectictastemakerkitty]

When I got up this morning. I found a toad couple in my shoes. I'm still wondering how they got into the house and didn't get eaten by the dogs. So I brought them outside the front door. They did remind me that I didn't have tea with my three legged toad for some time. That's why I share some of my Jiri Oolong with him now.

[goteaworld]

Wulong Oolong Tea: 5 Surprising Benefits for Your Health

[chineseteashop-blog]

Because of the cold weather, I haven't made oolong tea for a while. Today I made a pot of old Dan Cong for my old friends Douglas and Luke. #oolong #oolongtea #wulongtea #dancong #phoenixoolong #songzhong #darkoolong #teashopvancouver #chineseteashop #teavancouver #teatime #friendship #gongfucha #kongfutea #teaculture (at The Chinese Tea Shop) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cm0OuFyLLJ7/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[chineseteashop-blog]

1970's Dan Cong. A rare and unique profile with earthy and woody taste. #oolong #oolongtea #wulongtea #phoenixoolong #dancong #chineseoolong #chinesetea #gongfucha #chineseteashop #teashopvancouver #traditionaloolong #agedtea (at The Chinese Tea Shop) https://www.instagram.com/p/CVUR9QxLyBN/?utm_medium=tumblr

[chineseteashop-blog]

Making the 1990s Dan Cong in a small pot. Trying to show friends on how to get the pinkish tea colour from this tea by not make it strong. This is a perfect tea to make with the traditional gongfucha style to extract the robust characters of the tea, including its strong, long-lasting Hui Gan. #oolong #oolongtea #wulongtea #clifftea #phoenixoolong #dancong #shuixian #agedtea #agedoolong #gongfucha #kongfutea #teatime #teaceremony #teazen #teashopvancouver #chineseteashop #teavancouver (at The Chinese Tea Shop) https://www.instagram.com/p/CMshJS6hry9/?igshid=m2bshnb3x4r7