I'm getting close. I know the Chinese characters for BaiHao and for
sake of argument means WhiteDown. My source says Taiwan Champagne aka
oriental beauty is BaiHai which means for sake of argument WhiteTip
ignoring for the moment others saying
BaiHao,SilverNeedles,WhiteDown,WhiteTip,oolong oriental beauty are the
same. I assumed Hao and Hai would derive from the same Chinese root
character (only a guess). Hao is a reverse J with a couple of -
though the middle stalk of the character. Damn if I don't go surfing
and find a Hai Chinese character similar to Hao (just a couple of more
- but different angles adjacent to the stalk). I'm led down the
primerose path to a Taiwan site in Chinese with 'oriental beauty'
buried in Chinese characters. I don't have the font set to tell me if
it's using the characters for BaiHao or BaiHai or maybe neither.
Close but no cigar. Google will use UTF-8 links so you just load the
corresponding UTF-8 languages you want to see but any particular
webpage may use it own language font sets. I gaggle at how Google
translates from particular language character sets to UTF-8 for it's
links. One font set for all languages eventually. I learned that
here from the gal in Japan who thought I couldn't immerse myself in
Japanese culture by simply strolling the streets of an established pre
WWII community located adjacent to downtown. All I can say only the
street addresses for the mailman are in english.

Jim

(ws) wrote in message om>...
> Bai Hao means white downy tips, which was present in very large
> quantities in Bai Hao Oolong Tea thus its name.
>
> Most oolong teas are made from the second leaf, or the third, seldom
> the first unlike this Bai Hao Tea.
>
> Formosan Oolong is known as Bai Hao Oolong at the same time known as
> Dong Fang Mei Ren (oriental beauty). Just depends on where you are
> from the tea's called differently. Taiwan was known as formosa back
> then, and that was how the tea was called formosan oolong.