>From my notes:

"Eight Treasure Tea is a famous blend herbs, flowers, green tea and
dried fruit. It consists of Xinjiang Green Raisins, Red Jujube,
longan,lycium, crystal sugar, white chrysanthemum, dried date, and
green tea."

Also from my notes å…*å*¡ is considered a fermented black tea.

Jim


On Feb 8, 11:36Â*am, "MarshalN" > wrote:
> Six treasures? Â*å…*寶, which might be a fancy way of saying å…*å*¡?
>
> What do the tea leaves look like?
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> MarshalNhttp://www.xanga.com/MarshalN
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> On Feb 9, 1:07Â*am, "Shen" > wrote:
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> > On Feb 8, 5:41 am, "Space Cowboy" > wrote:
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> > > What was the BB TGY FL# and does it compare to the imperial gold
> > > oolong you mentioned?
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> > > Jim
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> > > PS Â*Wait a month and get mooncakes for half price.
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> > > > I thought I'd take a little different approach he because it is the
> > > > week before Asian New Year's Day, the shelves seemed stocked with teas
> > > > in all the Chinatowns I've been to this past week: Oakland, San
> > > > Francisco, Los Angeles and Monterey Park. There are lots of gift
> > > > tinsof teas and what seems to be very fresh loose teas as well.
> > > > Oakland Chinatown even had a couple of bingchas and touchas on the
> > > > shelves.I even (FINALLY!) found a big tin of Butterfly Brand Tie Guan
> > > > Yin for $10.00 (which is probably high).
> > > > It's may favorite time of year to stock up on Chinese cooking
> > > > ingredients and the produce stands are just loaded with pomeloes and
> > > > durians and chestnuts in anticipation of the celebratory meals.
> > > > Shen
> > > > I think it goes : Gong Hay Fat Choy!- Hide quoted text -
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> > Sorry, Jim. No tin here.
> > I'm in LA for a week and when I get back, I'll get you the code.
> > The tin is about 9 inches tall and mostly beige/brown (if that helps).
> > I'll get you some, if you'd like.
> > It's okay. I am a little spoiled with Tie Guan Yin since our local,
> > fancy tea store (Far Leaves - Berkeley ) has some really good, albeit
> > expensive, Â*stuff!
> > It seems to me that the "Butterfly Brand" is about the same as what I
> > bought in bulk at the Chinese grocery in Oakland.
> > BTW, I did also but an oolong in that shop that was called "Six
> > Treasures". I can't find that name anywhere; but, it was weird and
> > lovely. I really don't care too much for scented teas anymore; but
> > this tea went from orange blossomy (very light), probably an
> > osmanthus? to a jasmine-y (also very light), and then to a toasty,
> > roasted flavour. It was cheap - $22.00 a pound.
> > I didn't buy too much and, actually I'd get it again since the
> > flavours are so intriguing.
> > I am heading to Wing Hop Fung tomorrow and will sniff around there for
> > some interesting stuff!
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