Tea Review: MengHai Yi Wu Zheng Shan Da Ye Cha

Chance by this good cooked tea and therefore decided to pick 2 pieces up. The golden soup of the makes looks really attractive. Yes I said golden soup. You might want to imagine to the boiling hot corn oil without the greasiness. I guessed many people would not think highly of an year old tea on top of the fact that its a cooked tea. But having tested the tea myself, it already gives me the confident it might turn out to be another Feng Qing or even better in time to come. The taste is already almost identical to Feng Qing already at this age. Therefore this gives me the confidence to bet on 2 pieces of this tea. The smoothness and easy to drink soup certainly leaves me asking for more during the testing. Hopefully in time to come, it would not disappoint me.

Tea Review: Liu Bao Cha (六宝茶 6 Treasures Tea)

As the name of the tea would suggest, it does taste a little like Ba Bao Cha ( 八宝茶 8 Treasures Tea). However, its certainly not tat sweet. A mellow and easy to drink concoction with a taste richer than Feng Qing. A good tea is hard to come by and this is the last of whats left in the shop which I frequent. I did not purchase it but however “traded” for it with some Kwang Yun Tie Bing. Review for Kwang Yun Tie Bing coming up in the next blog entry.

Coming back to Liu Bao Cha, the tea leaves are very small black leaflets. One look you can tell its an aged tea. The soup base is more of darker but clear orange color. Though I do not have any negative comments about this tea, however its does not surprises me much as well.

Tea Review: Ban Tian Yiao

I was walking around this place in Bugis when I spotted this new tea shop. I was attracted to some Zhu Ni tea pots which were on display. I enquired about them and the boss was pretty excited about the new generation of tea lovers. She therefore invited me to sit down and treated me to some of her good Ban Tian Yiao. I was more of a Pu-erh drinker and this is my first time that I tried Wu Long. Indeed it tasted different from the Pu-erh. On the first sight you will notice the dark reddish soup of the tea. The fragrance is instant but not intense. First sip already you can taste the sweetness of the tea. However this sweetness is unlike the sweetness of Pu-erh. One interestg that amaze tea lovers is inspite of the tasting sweetness in different tea, somehow there are always differences between the sweetness. Its this kind of excitement that keeps tea lovers passion of tea going on. Another observation of the taste of the tea is that the tea flow almost as a full bodied liquid. Most of them time we would only this kind of feeling in wine or aged tea. This tea certainly leaves me asking for more. However, due to the high price of this tea, I did not make any purchase to add to my collection.

Tea Review: Feng Qing Tuo Cha

I just realised I've never wrote a review about this tea before. Its one of the first tea in my collection.
What got me wanting to write about it is because of something which I tried today. It got mee feeling so high after drinking the brew. I told this to a friend and he said that its highly undesirable. So you might be asking what I had done. Well I made 2 brews on Monday and left the leaves in the teapot with some of the undrained tea. This allows the tea to grow really thick within that small quantity of water.

I added in hot water and smelt the tea. Wow.... Something different though its the same old leaves. I took the same usual big sip. Mmm Mmm Mmm !!
The taste of medicine !! If you have read my earlier posts, you should know that I'm one that likes the medicine taste. The same usual smoothness of the tea adds compliment the tea even more. Wow what can I say, its a 10yr cooked pu-erh. No wonder its hard or perhaps can't get them in stores anymore here in Singapore. Let me know if you have some to sell.