Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Oolong tea offers ‘beauty’

”Oriental Beauty” is the type of oolong tea. The features it possesses are just as beautiful as its name suggests, while all those features came about during an accident.
In another story, Oriental Beauty was initially called “Puff Tea.” At that time, a farmer's tea garden was injured by insects. He couldn't reconcile himself to the idea of suffering a big loss, so he took his tea into the town for sale. Unexpectedly, his tea was favored by many peoples because of its unique fragrance. After he returned, he shared his experience with the insect-injured tea; the villagers quickly dubbed it “Puff Tea.”
The fermentation level of Oriental Beauty is the deepest among oolong teas, so its tea water turned darker, or amber-colored. In addition, the tea leaves are tremendous, with five colors you can see by looking carefully - red, yellow, white, blue-green and brown. Therefore, some people also call it as “Five-color Tea.”

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