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“Hurray – I’m the first one to log this. Nyah, nyah nyah! :-) Today I am an oolong fiend. I got this as a freebie with my order from Asha Tea House and I’m very grateful. I only have had one other...” Read full tasting note
“Had this tea in SF today! My mom, sister, and I had this tea and their Jasmine Pearls as a tea set. Ahhh I would highly recommend going to Asha, and if you have some time to spare, purchase tea as...” Read full tasting note
Also known as Bai Hao Oolong, Oriental Beauty （東方美人) is produced only once a year, in the summer. The honey, orchid, and fruit notes are contributed to in part by leaf hoppers feeding on the tea leaves. This also causes the leaves to be dwarfed in size, requiring a significantly greater number of leaves to make one pound of tea.
This Oriental Beauty comes from Mr. Ong, an old school farmer native to Ping Lin, a tea growing region in the northeastern part of Taiwan. The area has a very unique micro climate, with intense fog for a lower elevation, less than 800 meters, area. These factors made Ping Lin one of the first well known tea growing regions on the island.
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Hurray – I’m the first one to log this. Nyah, nyah nyah! :-)
Today I am an oolong fiend. I got this as a freebie with my order from Asha Tea House and I’m very grateful.
I only have had one other oriental beauty oolong and this is another one that evidently gets its’ sweetness from the assistance of insects. So I’m defintely not an expert. And I’ve heard it can be difficult to find a good quality oriental beauty oolong but I believe this is a good one.
It brews up darker than a green oolong but is not really roasted. The flavor in infusions 1 and 2 reminds me a bit of grain with a light floral quality and some lingering sweetness. A bit of honey. This falls very softly on the palette and is moist and refreshing in your mouth.
Steep #3 is getting a bit sweeter with something like a light touch of caramel or brown sugar. Mmmm. This is really lovely, I’m so glad I got the chance to try it. It’s luxurious!
Had this tea in SF today! My mom, sister, and I had this tea and their Jasmine Pearls as a tea set. Ahhh I would highly recommend going to Asha, and if you have some time to spare, purchase tea as a tea set! Mine, they served it on a traditional tea boat with a yixing clay pot, serving pot, and a sipping cup! My mom and sister shared the Jasmine tea. They had it in a gaiwan, and the serving pot and two sipping cups.
This tea was so good! This was the first time I actually had tea gong fu style, and it was fab. Though it had that dark, earthy taste to it, it still was pretty light and smooth.
((what is this tasting note I am so sorry. I was just so impressed by the presentation of the tea and the lovely and chill atmosphere that I forgot to pay attention to the tea itself ops))
I’m home just for a week for a mini vacation! My family and I went wine tasting and shopping and all things fab. Today was our San Francisco day :))
My mom, sister, and I made it a mission to go to some sort of tea lounge and found this cute tea place called the Chai Bar (which had Steph Curry tea [my sister and dad are huge Warriors fans]) but sadly, it was closed to Presidents Day. I went to yelp, and found Asha Tea just a block or two away from our next destination! So away we went and we stayed there for a good hour or so until we decided to get lunch and finish up shopping :)
