Mydnight > writes:

> On Sun, 21 Nov 2004 22:40:01 -0800, "Melinda" >
> wrote:
>
> >Yeah I knew about the place of origin of Longjing, lol...I was asking about
> >his supplier source or where he bought his Longjing. I have never heard of
> >gunpowder being a type of oolong...does anyone else have this info? Thanks
> >very much.
> >
>
> you are referring to the sort of tea that comes rolled into little
> balls that resemble black powder and unroll as you steep them, right?
> on the western market, I have seen tie guan yin and other different
> tyes of wulong advertised as 'Chinese Green Gunpowder' tea and
> gunpowder tea and not using the true name of the tea. The two or
> three vendors that I contacted about it, there are a profusion of them
> on the net, all claim it to be green tea but know nothing more about
> it since they basically just get it in bulk and sell it for jacked-up
> prices.
>
> From what I've seen, it all looks, and tastes like, a kind of wulong.
> I haven't heard of any kind of Chinese tea being called gunpowder
> before I looked in the western markets.

In Mandarin you'd say Zhu Cha for what's called Gunpowder in the west.

/Lew
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