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Hi All,
Today I will be reviewing this item:
High Mountain Oolong Tea, Ali Shan Taiwan | Loose Leaf for Infusers | Organic Chai | Wu Long Tea Healthy Beverage | Weight Loss Diet Tea | Da Yu Ling Tea Tin
Note that I received this item at a discounted price in exchange for my honest and unbiased review.
So let's start with the appearance: very nice and probably great for gifting.
Issue? No tape to seal the cap, and it can fall off very easily.
Secondly, please look below- I received a dented tin. Definitely CANNOT be gifted at this point.
The whole tin is nearly in chinese, except for one small portion in the back where they teach you how to cook the tea, but the english translations are literally useless.
This is how they look like inside. You get two vacuum sealed pouches of tea leaves
I did not take pictures of the tea leaves, but they look like rolled up leaves...
Issues with this item...
1. Although they state the product is oolong tea, nowhere on the tin does it say "oolong". Tea connoisseurs, please correct me if I'm wrong.
2. Further emphasizing my first point.. In chinese, they have the following:
品名: 茶叶
成分:天然茶叶
This literally translates to:
name: tea leaves
ingredients: natural (or organic) tea leaves
Again, does not state it is oolong.
Says that it is made in Taiwan.
Also, it states that it can be kept for 1 year, BUT date of manufacturing is nowhere to be seen on the tin. The bottom of the tin has a label (which I forgot to take a picture of), stating that the tea is good until 5/01/2018- so I'm guessing that it was manufactured around May of this year.
Back of tin has a brief background about the tea and where it is collected, but I won't get into that, as there's too much to translate.
3. Does not taste like oolong. I have had oolong before and they are dark in color, somewhat bitter, and strong. This tea is very LIGHT in color, slightly bitter, and not strong at all. Maybe I used too much water? I don't know. I just feel like it doesn't taste like oolong at all.
Although I stated that it doesn't taste like oolong at all, it also has its advantages. The tea is rather soothing to drink, and I quite like the taste. I don't like how misleading the tin is though.
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