What is Oolong? do you like it?!
It's good with Dim Sum!
Answers: Oolong is tea that is made from partially oxidated tea leaves, so it's between green tea (from fresh green leaves) adn black tea (from oxidated leaves).
It's good with Dim Sum!
It is a form of Chinese tea. It is yellow-brown coloured.
It has a different aroma, so it might be an acquired taste, but I like it (I was raised in Asia!)
It's a kind of black tea. I don't really care for it, but i'm also not all that fond of black teas.
Oolong (traditional Chinese: 烏龍; pinyin: wūlóng) is a traditional Chinese tea somewhere between green and black in oxidation. It ranges from 10% to 70% oxidation.[1]
In Chinese tea culture, semi-oxidized oolong teas are collectively grouped as qīngchá (Chinese: 青茶; literally "blue-green tea").[2] Oolong has a taste more akin to green tea than to black tea: it lacks the rosy, sweet aroma of black tea but it does not have the stridently grassy vegetal notes that typify green tea. The best Oolong has a nuanced flavor profile. It is commonly brewed to be strong, with the bitterness leaving a sweet and pleasant aftertaste. Oolongs produced in the Wuyi Mountains of Fujian Province and in the Central Mountains of Taiwan are world famous.
Oolong tea leaves are often processed and rolled into long curly leaves or into ball-like form similar to gunpowder tea.[1] It is commonly served in Chinese restaurants, to accompany dim sum and other Chinese food.
The word oolong means "black dragon" in Chinese. There are three widely accepted explanations on how this name came about.[3]
According to the "tribute tea" theory, oolong tea was a direct descendant of Dragon-Phoenix Tea Cake tribute tea. Oolong tea replaced it when loose tea came into fashion. Since it was dark, long and curly, it was called the Black Dragon tea.
According to the "Wuyi" theory, oolong tea first existed in Wuyi Mountain. This is evidenced by Qing dynasty poems such as Wuyi Tea Song (Wuyi Chage) and Tea Tale (Chashuo). It was said that oolong tea was named after the part of Wuyi mountain it was originally produced.
According to the "Anxi" theory, oolong tea had its origin in the Anxi oolong tea plant. A man named Sulong, Wulong or Wuliang discovered it.
Another tale tells of a man named Wu Liang (later corrupted to Wu Long, or Oolong) who discovered oolong tea by accident when he was distracted by a deer after a hard day's tea-picking, and by the time he remembered about the tea it had already started to oxidize.[4]
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