Taiwan Eastern Beauty (Oriental Beauty) tea

Oriental Beauty is about 70%-80% fermented. When finished the production that you could find the colorful dry leaf. The color could be white, green, yellow, red, brown. Usually the top grade tea is like have 5 colors.   

The harvest is usually during June to July when has the most green leafhoppers on the tea tree to suck on the tender tea leaves. So that is mean the best tea is from that season. Because the obvious honey smell and taste of the tea you could feel most. The lower grade one is fruit like taste.

Another name Pong Fong Tea is in Taiwanese pronunciation. There is an interesting story traced back to the Japanese occupation era when a tea farmer in Xin Zhu area produced tea that was seriously bit by a green leaf bug. He took it to Taipei City for sale and got a very good price. He went back home and tell people from their village but people do not believe he could selling that tea in good price. Therefore people said that he is Pong Fong  Pong Fong is mean, magnify the factor, overstate, or exaggerate.

There are still many different names which is comes from many different stories. Its original name called Bai Hao Oolong in Chinese or White tip Oolong in English. They are same meaning. Because when produce this tea that only two tender leaves and white-tipped buds are picked from the tea tree.

100 years ago the tea was called Formosa oolong during Qin dynasty to Japanese era when was the major tea for export to Europe and UK. At the time people also called this tea champagne oolong.  When Queen Elizabeth II of England drank this tea then named it Oriental beauty. 

(The beauty tea have many names: Formosa oolong, champagne oolong, Bai Hao Oolong, White tip Oolong, Oriental beauty, Eastern Beauty, Pong Fong tea. Bai Mao Hou.)

The beauty tea have many names: Formosa oolong, champagne oolong, Bai Hao Oolong, White tip Oolong, Oriental beauty, Eastern Bea