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Japanese tea is good but they’re pretty much about green tea. You know, matcha, sencha, bancha, that kind of thing. And it’s all well done, affordable too.

But you’re rarely going to find white tea, yellow tea, oolong, black tea, pu’ehr from Japan. And if you do, it’s unlikely going to be as good as what’s made in China.

Chris Trottier 2y ago

Now Indian tea is very interesting because a subspecies of tea, very distinct from what’s grown in China, comes from there. I’m talking about Assam. It’s got a totally different flavour.

The problem is that Assam is almost always produced as a black tea, and usually CTC. Mind you, that’s beginning to change. I have tried green and white Assam teas before, and they’re incredible.

You won’t find yellow, oolong or pu’ehr Assam teas, though. I have never seen it.

Technically, Darjeeling could be an oolong, though I think it’s too fermented to be one. And funny enough, that’s not made from an Assam tea plant.

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Chris Trottier 2y ago

Taiwanese oolong is about on par with Chinese oolong, though I don’t think they have anything as good as Da Hong Pao. To me, that’s the high watermark for oolongs.

Also, Sun Moon Lake black tea is from Taiwan, and that’s made from a plant that’s a hybrid of Chinese and Assam tea.