Oolong tea

Oolong tea is a traditional Chinese tea and is the most common tea served in Chinese restaurants.

It's orignated from Fujian provice, China. Oolong tea has another name Wulong. According to legend, this tea was found by a tea farmer who's name was SuLong. For his skin black, the villager called him WuLong. One day, he went to the mountain to go hunting. He was very lucky and met a wild deer. He spent great effort to get the deer. When he came back, the sun had set. He and his families were busy slaughtering the deer and enjoyed their delicious food, consequently they forgot to make tea. The next morning he found the tea was more different than before. The tea had a refreshing fragrance, a good taste, no bitterness and a nice color. Through everlasting experiment on the basis of ever-widening experience, the villagers made a new tea and used the same name as the farmer.

Made in the semi-fermented process, oolong tea contains a wide variety of polyphenolic compounds and these different nutrients are probably integrated to bring great benefits to our bodies. Oolong Tea has much greater amount of polyphenolic compounds compared to green tea and black tea. Polyphenolic in oolong tea is very effective in controlling obesity and reducing triglyceride and removing free radicals. Of course, Oolong Tea also have medical benefits that comes with any Chinese tea cancer prevention, reducing harmful effects from cigarettes smoking, stimulating nerve centre and the process of metabolism, reducing heart disease and aiding digestion.

DongDing, DaHongPao, TieGuanYin and WuYiShuiXian are very famous in China and overseas and planted a lot in ZheJiang, FuJian, TaiWan province.

High quality of oolong tea looks re-cord tight knot real, curled and have a light green color; its liquid has a golden or orange color, limpid and bright; it smells like flower fragrance; it tastes a mellow, fresh, no astringent and the spent of tea leaves look green leaves with red edges.chinesetea-shop