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"Space Cowboy" > writes:

> It looks like that. In the middle of this translated page:
> http://tinyurl.com/fk9g8 you'll see references to the leaf
> description (finger citron, Buddha Palm).


Love those sparkles!

> And I use this link:
> http://teamasters.blogspot.com/2006/...dhas-hand.html
> which describes it more in English.


That's really interesting, but I doubt that it has anything to do with
the oolong. I've tasted it (not the compressed version Sasha alerted
us to), and it certainly had no bergamot-style flavoring.

> I'd never seen the pinyin term Fo Shou to describe any tea.


It's fairly common. Googling for it using the Chinese characters

http://www.google.com/search?as_q=%E...s=&safe=images

just yielded 325,000 hits, and Googling for "Fo Shou"

http://www.google.com/search?as_q=te...s=&safe=images

got me 1,180.

/Lew
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