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Originally Posted by GhostyTowno
Hey man I'm new here too, welcome. Lots of good artists listed there across a wide range of genres. You had quite an esoteric experience when it comes to discovering these genres, like a complete scatter plot awakening into totally different cultures of music. Pretty cool. Also now as much as I like talking about music here is what I'm truly curious of:
What does chinese tea taste like and where can I obtain such a thing?
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China is the homeland of tea and where all kinds of teas take their roots in. There are all kinds of tea with incredibly diverse ranges of flavors on their own. Black tea or hongcha is an oxidized tea that can taste like anything from malt and chocolate to honey and pollen. I recommend getting hongcha from Yunnan Sourcing's website. The have a US site ending in ,us too. Green tea or lucha is a non-oxidized tea that generally gets vegetal and grassy tastes. I never explored green teas much, but I know obubu and ocha are great places for getting Japanese greens which are known being more savory. Oolong tea is a semi-oxidized tea that's pretty much its own world. I recommend getting oolong from Yunnan Sourcing for budget options at first. Tiekuanyin tea has really good Taiwan Oolongs that I can guarantee you are all absolutely amazing. Heicha is a an umbrella term for fermented/aged teas, the most popular kind being puerh tea. Heicha can have many flavors but most have a earthy/atmospheric taste. Raw puerh and other raw heicha varieties can have a sort of parallel universe green tea flavor when young and wildly different flavors when aged for 10 years or so. Yunnan Sourcing, White2Tea, tealifehk.com, Liquid Proust, Bitterleaf teas, Teaswelike, among many others are great places to get puerh and heicha from. Do note that heichas get real expensive real fast, but ripe puerh and liu bao can come cheap. Stay away from really young ripe puerhs though, they can taste real funky.