Xue Long
I am curious to know about this tea called Snow Dragon if anyone knows much about it. I had it a long time ago from Holy Mountain and it was great but I haven't seen it anywhere else really. Anyone know about it?
Sep 14th, '10, 20:29
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I suppose it's Cheng Tian Snow Dragon (Xue Long) from Zhejiang. You just made me very curious and jealous! It's a green tea from Zhejiang province, not so famous among the numerous types of green teas from its home province and is not recorded by 2 out of the 3 tea encyclopedia books on my shelf. But in my experience some not well-known green teas can be seriously good. I've never had this tea and never thought it was sold in US. But then I googled it and found it's sold in silkroadtea.com. Now I am struggling whether to buy some 
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I am going to place an order for this tea and also for a variety of longjing (bird's tongue) which I haven't seen anywhere else online but this particular vendor.
Thanks for the heads up!
Thanks for the heads up!
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Hope you enjoy it. I first tried it back when I was just learning about tea some 8 years ago. I just bought a lot of samplers from a few different sites. Holy Mountain ended up being one of my favorites out of all of them and was my staple until I found Teaspring. I was surprised that I couldn't find this tea on any of these other sites. So I didn't know if I was enjoying a low quality of tea or if maybe it was just something that was under another name.
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I just came across this blog entry about the topic of discussion:
http://blog.chadao.eu/snow-dragon/
Maybe it belongs to one of the teachatters.
http://blog.chadao.eu/snow-dragon/
Maybe it belongs to one of the teachatters.
Sep 17th, '10, 09:06
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Oh you are fast!mayayo wrote:I am going to place an order for this tea and also for a variety of longjing (bird's tongue) which I haven't seen anywhere else online but this particular vendor.
Thanks for the heads up!
Sep 17th, '10, 09:10
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This is a different tea from the Zhejiang snow dragon.mayayo wrote:I just came across this blog entry about the topic of discussion:
http://blog.chadao.eu/snow-dragon/
Maybe it belongs to one of the teachatters.
But yeah this is a great blog. I think it belongs to Cosmin in Association of Tea Bloggers. He has lots of nice articles and many, many beautiful tea pictures
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I am just shocked that on this forum, no one has heard of it or tried it. I thought for sure that I would post this and get 50+ comments on it, including a history lesson. lol.
I'll have to re order some of it and see if it is still good.
I'll have to re order some of it and see if it is still good.
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Have you received and tried the tea yet Mayayo?mayayo wrote:I am going to place an order for this tea and also for a variety of longjing (bird's tongue) which I haven't seen anywhere else online but this particular vendor...
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I've had it before but it was when I was fairly new to tea and I don't remember much about it, other than thinking it was naturally sweet and very high quality having little white hairs on the unbroken leaves.
I got it here: http://www.pu-erhtea.com/GreenTea.htm
I got it here: http://www.pu-erhtea.com/GreenTea.htm
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I ordered ALOT of tea from them (too much) and all of it was amazing quality, looked just like the pictures... the "girl ring" was my favorite and def. the most unique in flavor and appearance.TwoPynts wrote:Some very nice looking teas there Rabbit.
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The source I am looking at says: sold out. So waiting until they get some more.TwoPynts wrote:mayayo wrote:Have you received and tried the tea yet Mayayo?