I'd recommend Ujeon (pre-rainy season, equivalent to Chinese Ming Qian or Japanese Shincha)..for Korean green, but there's this dilemma, there are not cheap!
well..it's not the tea leaves themselves, but pesticide or effort used to make it. Bosung and Hadong are 2 main provinces for tea, nowadays Jaeju island and Gangwondo also started gain a fame..
Korean greens follow stir-frying tradition like that of China's, the Koreans have been drinking green as long as 1000-years, but recent set-up for producing is made not over 100-years.
There are also great Korean herb teas like I-sul Cha(mountain dew), Bbong-ip Cha (mulberry leaf), Gam-ip Cha (persimmon leaf)..they are all quite good!
Re: Korean green tea... not quite green?
You're making my mouth water. Why do Koreans laugh when I say bong cha? My friends laugh hysterically when they hear me ask for this.chrl42 wrote:I'd recommend Ujeon (pre-rainy season, equivalent to Chinese Ming Qian or Japanese Shincha)..for Korean green, but there's this dilemma, there are not cheap!
well..it's not the tea leaves themselves, but pesticide or effort used to make it. Bosung and Hadong are 2 main provinces for tea, nowadays Jaeju island and Gangwondo also started gain a fame..
Korean greens follow stir-frying tradition like that of China's, the Koreans have been drinking green as long as 1000-years, but recent set-up for producing is made not over 100-years.
There are also great Korean herb teas like I-sul Cha(mountain dew), Bbong-ip Cha (mulberry leaf), Gam-ip Cha (persimmon leaf)..they are all quite good!
Re: Korean green tea... not quite green?
Interestingly, Dao Tea sells some nice-looking teas from China as well as from S. Korea. One, an inexpensive sheng, caught my eye.
Has anyone tried their Chinese teas?
Best wishes,
sherubtse
Has anyone tried their Chinese teas?
Best wishes,
sherubtse
Re: Korean green tea... not quite green?
Koreans say 'bbong', it has a stronger accent than 'bong', I noticed such pronunciations are rare in mandarin and english..maybe often in spanish and tagalog...sometimes it hears like 'farting'Tead Off wrote:You're making my mouth water. Why do Koreans laugh when I say bong cha? My friends laugh hysterically when they hear me ask for this.chrl42 wrote:I'd recommend Ujeon (pre-rainy season, equivalent to Chinese Ming Qian or Japanese Shincha)..for Korean green, but there's this dilemma, there are not cheap!
well..it's not the tea leaves themselves, but pesticide or effort used to make it. Bosung and Hadong are 2 main provinces for tea, nowadays Jaeju island and Gangwondo also started gain a fame..
Korean greens follow stir-frying tradition like that of China's, the Koreans have been drinking green as long as 1000-years, but recent set-up for producing is made not over 100-years.
There are also great Korean herb teas like I-sul Cha(mountain dew), Bbong-ip Cha (mulberry leaf), Gam-ip Cha (persimmon leaf)..they are all quite good!
Re: Korean green tea... not quite green?
They sell good teas but you need to find out if they are selling fresh tea and not last year's crop.
At this point, I would recommend Dao Teas who are actively involved with the Korean tea farmers directly and have fresh teas.