Tieguanyin Oolong [Modern Style]

Tieguanyin Oolong | 铁观音 | Iron Goddess of Mercy

Now from a higher quality crop! 🌱✨

This modern, lightly oxidized, gently baked version of Tieguanyin offers a floral heavy version, complex like Taiwanese oolongs yet delicate like green tea. This greener interpretation provides a quick-steeping, soft bodied, pale golden liquor with notes of orchid, jungle flora, crème, and a refreshing minerality.

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One of China's most famous teas - named after Guanyin, the Buddhist Bodhisattva of Compassion. This tea varietal is said to have been a gift to a poor farmer from the bodhisattva herself.

Despite his village's bleak circumstances, the farmer Wei Yin tended daily to a broken down shrine to Guanyin after fieldwork. One day, he was led by her in a dream to a nearby cave, where he found a single tea shoot that changed his community's fortune.

Now Anxi County's most renowned tea famed across China - Tieguanyin even finds its way to SF dim sum houses, where incidentally, it became Moonlit's childhood favorite.

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Pairs well with light seafood, steamed veggies, dim sum, @Nekosama_ba's Seasonal Chiffon Cakes, fresh mango, and coconut pudding

4g Tea | 8oz Water | 190-200°F | 2-3 Minutes