Heavy Roasted TGY

[chrl42]

by chrl42 » Jan 13th, '09, 18:23

Elegant Queen (醉貴妃 (zuì guì fēi in Hanyu pinyin), which more literally refers to a concubine)

HOW?
internet dictionary points,

醉 zuì : intoxicated

To a notorious concubine who played a major role in falling of Tang dynasty
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yang_Guifei

[wyardley]

by wyardley » Jan 13th, '09, 21:02

so what is traditional/classic roast/fire TGY? Anyone....

Right. I mean it's not a very useful description (more of a marketing kind of thing), because it means a lot of different things depending on who you're talking to and what their "tradition" is. I don't read too much into it... for me, the most useful thing is tasting the tea, and second, seeing a picture of the dry leaves, steeped leaves, and tea liquor, preferably with reasonable lighting.

To me, it's just a general clue that the tea has some amount more roasting and / or oxidation than the greener oolongs that are more popular in a lot of places now, but beyond that, it's too general a description to really tell you much. Knowing where the seller is from might give you a little bit of a clue.

BTW, where is the one you posted a picture of from?

[Proinsias]

by Proinsias » Jan 13th, '09, 21:05

Yeah, I always took tradition roast/fire to mean little more than 'not very green'.

[wyardley]

by wyardley » Jan 13th, '09, 21:26

Yeah, I always took tradition roast/fire to mean little more than 'not very green'.

As I've learned from experience, though, some other people's ideas of "not very green" are very different from mine. :>

[Bubba_tea]

by Bubba_tea » Jan 13th, '09, 23:22

More like a Hong Kong Classic. Electric roasted. 1 day process:

Sounds like the cheap tea I bought at the Chinese TNT supermarket up in Vancouver - all taste like salt tea.

[TIM]

by TIM » Jan 13th, '09, 23:29

More like a Hong Kong Classic. Electric roasted. 1 day process:

Sounds like the cheap tea I bought at the Chinese TNT supermarket up in Vancouver - all taste like salt tea.

I guess you just had some really bad experience in a low end supermarket

This one is actually a classic TGY from Hong Kong I've been using to practice Real Kung Fu tea recently. Quite enjoyable in my 2 cents.

[Bubba_tea]

by Bubba_tea » Jan 13th, '09, 23:49

To a notorious concubine who played a major role in falling of Tang dynasty
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yang_Guifei

One of the four beauties... Anyone interested in the Xi Shi yi xing pots - here's the beauty it's supposedly modeled after..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tu_dai_My_nhan_TQ-Four_Great_Chinese_Beauties.jpg

[Herb_Master]

by Herb_Master » Jan 14th, '09, 07:26

To a notorious concubine who played a major role in falling of Tang dynasty
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yang_Guifei

One of the four beauties... Anyone interested in the Xi Shi yi xing pots - here's the beauty it's supposedly modeled after..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tu_dai_My_nhan_TQ-Four_Great_Chinese_Beauties.jpg

I bought the 4 Chinese Beauties AND the 12 Emperors on ebay when they arrived one of the emperors was broken It looked like Customs had been rough in handling it and not repackaged very well, then it had been left lying around in the rain.

Tried seasoning the pots and was shocked with the colour coming off so contacted the vendor

Oh no, Emperors and Beauties only for display do not use, heavily lacquered