Healthy Tea

[joedoe]

Great thread. Love it. I love green tea too :)

One thing you might want to try, and some Chinese restaurants do this, is to add some dried chrysanthemum flowers (comes like a tea as well)to your tea to take the edge off the tea. It also gives it a faintly sweet taste.

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[Retired Taoist]

For Oolongs, I would recommand Dahongpao and Yelaixiang, really nice teas with enough flavor to satisfy a coffee drinker.

For green teas, I guess it takes a while to get used to their light taste. Xihu Longjing, Gaoshan Yunlu, Zhenzhu Shouyuan and Piluochun are quite nice.

You can also try sone white teas (they are suposed to be among the best) like Yinzhen or teas made of different herbs like Babaocha (Eight treasures tea)...

Enjoy ;)

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[Panther]

I have seen this drink in the chinese markets "chrysanthemum drinks" what are their health benefits?
Are they a good replacement for coffee or sodapop?

[dunbarj01]

These drinks are usually contain the extract of the flower and a lot of cane sugar as well as colourings and flavour. The flowers, I have read, have a supposed benefit for vision. Someone else might have heard something similar.

Cheers

[fiercest tiger]

Lo Han Gou used for healing lungs, good for smokers after they quite!

its a fruit that looks like a passion friut, but dark green/black colour. you can make soups with it as well, but the lo han gou tea is in a cube form. very sweet and sugary too!

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[dunbarj01]

Hey FT,

I usually have it when I have a dry, sore throat although to me it tastes like 80% sugar/20% beef stock cube :p I find it works well for about 30 minutes. I didn't know it was recommended for ex-smokers - I'll have to drink it more often (if I can). :D

Cheers,

[SLC]

I found this tea merchent on the net and have been happy with their service:

http://www.specialteas.com/

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