What about my Pei Pei ;-).
Jim

Tea Masters Blog wrote:
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> > Mydnight wrote:
> > Oh, I got it now. We usually refer to the leaves as being "nen" which
> > means soft; I've heard it called "luan" a few times but I forgot about
> > that. Could you please give the character for "pei" to Jim because I'm
> > not sure which one you mean.
>
> My understanding is that 'nen' means fresh, tender (which is a good
> quality for tea as for vegetables). In ruanzi (luanzi) Oolong, it's
> merely a name that uses to soft stems of that kind of Oolong tree to
> give a name to that kind of Oolong (the one mostly used in high
> mountain Oolong).
>
> Stéphane