Today i am privileged to have a chance to taste a rather unusal tea, brought to Penang from HK by Khoo EL. It appears to be a private blend from a "Ying Kee Tea House". With very scanty description of the ingredients.
From the English and chinese instructions, there appear to have Pu Erh and green tea as the components of the blend. Silver Peony (a Chinese flower) is added as a favor.
I had 5gm (out of bag of 75gm) made into tea with 98 Dec C water (my Panasonic thermo's setting) . I tried some after 2min of brewing and following by additional 10min of soaking.
The 2min brew is very light golden in color. Very refreshing. With light fragrance of some sort not commonly found among teas (like Jasmin or Rose). There is lacking the typical Oolong (TikKuanYin) tea favor.
The 10min brew is much darker in appearance. The tea favor is also becoming apparent. Nevertheless, it is not the "kam" at the tongue-tip type characteristic of Oolong.
This tea is an excellent diversion for us who are normally able only to taste the common Pu Erh or Tikkuanyin. I am sure our HGG group will enjoy it.
If i were to rate the Tea King "Tik Kuan Yin" once brought by SH Leang as a 7* (scale 1* to 10*, 10* being the best), this Silver Peong should be a 5*.
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