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.


Mydnight

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