If you are looking for high grade of taiwan tea. you should take a look at :
www.jardinduthe.ca , this store offers an excellence taiwan Dong Ding (
tong ting ) oolong tea.


"Scott Dorsey" > wrote in message
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> Space Cowboy > wrote:
> >I like TenRen loose teas. AFAIK their commercial loose teas aren't for
> >export. Their export teabags don't compare. I recently paid $7/150g
> >for bags of Green and TungTing. Another very good commercial brand
> >from Taiwan is Good Young. Again buy their loose teas and not teabags.
> > I've never had a bad Pouchong from Taiwan from anybody. So to wrap
> >it up, I like commercial loose teas from Taiwan.
>
> Most of the teabags of theirs I have tried were very stale, even ones
> purchased at the Ten Ren stores.
>
> The Ten Ren stores have a wide variety of loose teas, although for the
> most part the more expensive ones and the oddities aren't stocked very
> conistently. For example, the NYC store has lapsang souchong, which
> the Rockville store does not... but Rockville has two grades of the
> Oriental Beauty tea while the NYC store has only one.
>
> Ten Ren usually has five or six grades of each variety, but the stores
> don't stock all of them. For the most part, they get more fragrant as
> you go up in price. The cheap teas are very inexpensive, and the high
> end teas are very expensive although many of the stores only stock the
> stuff in the middle.
>
> The second-to-lowest grade tung ting is pretty good, and reasonably
> priced. I love the oriental beauty teas. The king's tea and the
> lapsang are both kind of nasty.
>
> Oh yes, and their osmanthus teas are interesting. As you go up in
> price, the teas have less osmanthus and more tea flavour.
> --scott
>
> --
> "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."