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		<title>Gold Rush</title>
		<link>http://www.readingthetealeaves.com/2010/07/31/gold-rush/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jul 2010 16:56:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lydiakung</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Black Teas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yunnan Black teas]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There are Silver Pearls and Silver Needles to be found in teas, and as these Jasmine and White teas become better known, &#8220;silver&#8221; attached to tea has entered common parlance.  The grey-silver sheen of certain types of teas comes from the fine, downy hairs of unopened buds.  Silvery sproutings contrast against darker leaves in some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grassy Greens</title>
		<link>http://www.readingthetealeaves.com/2010/07/21/grassy-greens/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 22:11:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lydiakung</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Green Teas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sencha]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Many people have probably been drinking Sencha Green tea without realizing it.  Sencha is probably the tea most widely used to make a base for Green flavored blends, such as Peach Green or some other more exotically named Green&#8217;s.
The reason for this choice of tea perhaps has less to do with its flavor than with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Up in the Clouds</title>
		<link>http://www.readingthetealeaves.com/2010/07/12/up-in-the-clouds/</link>
		<comments>http://www.readingthetealeaves.com/2010/07/12/up-in-the-clouds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 02:42:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lydiakung</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Green Teas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[budsets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Clouds & Mist]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fake teas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jiangxi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lu Mtn.]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Hollywood&#8221; is spelled out in huge letters in the hills above L.A.  That&#8217;s what I thought of when I saw a set of large characters proclaiming &#8220;tea&#8221; on a hill in the Lu Mountains.  The characters were in red and, set against the green of tea hills, they were hard to miss.
Surrounded by provinces known for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is the Visual Worth the Value?</title>
		<link>http://www.readingthetealeaves.com/2010/07/04/is-the-visual-worth-the-value/</link>
		<comments>http://www.readingthetealeaves.com/2010/07/04/is-the-visual-worth-the-value/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jul 2010 23:14:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lydiakung</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Green Teas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[An Ji White]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[[Happy July 4th! This is the time for iced teas and what better way to explore teas by trying some of them iced; see my posts from August 2009 for suggestions besides the standard Black teas.]
This post revisits the topic of developing a framework within which to assess good value teas, especially when they are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A New Tea: &#8220;White&#8221; Green</title>
		<link>http://www.readingthetealeaves.com/2010/07/04/a-new-tea-white-green/</link>
		<comments>http://www.readingthetealeaves.com/2010/07/04/a-new-tea-white-green/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jul 2010 22:06:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lydiakung</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Green Teas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[White Teas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AnJi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mt. TianMu]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tea processing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As I tasted a newly arrived sample of Green tea, I was curious about how the tea got its name, AnJi White Green.
Most White teas don&#8217;t look white.  Here before me was a Green tea that looked white (more on this below).
In the specialty tea industry, defining White tea is a work in progress.  Consumers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pi Lo Chun (Green Snail Spring), A Shanghai Favorite</title>
		<link>http://www.readingthetealeaves.com/2010/06/26/pi-lo-chun-green-snail-spring-a-shanghai-favorite/</link>
		<comments>http://www.readingthetealeaves.com/2010/06/26/pi-lo-chun-green-snail-spring-a-shanghai-favorite/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jun 2010 03:37:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lydiakung</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Green Teas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lake Tai]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rolling tea leaves]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Shopping at Kam Man market on Canal St. in New York last week, I noticed that one tea appears in three grades in its large tea section &#8212; the same tin but in three different colors.  The prices should alert the buyer to quality differences.  What was striking too was that this was the only [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Looking at Leaves, Learning to Taste</title>
		<link>http://www.readingthetealeaves.com/2010/06/17/looking-at-leaves-learning-to-taste/</link>
		<comments>http://www.readingthetealeaves.com/2010/06/17/looking-at-leaves-learning-to-taste/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 15:59:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lydiakung</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Black Teas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green Teas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oolong Teas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tasting Sessions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[White Teas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UCLA Asia in LA]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last month (May) I gave a tea talk at UCLA along with a tasting that was part of the school&#8217;s annual &#8220;Asia in LA 2010&#8243; day-long program.
Most of  the material I presented has been covered in various earlier posts, but I provide here the teas that I brought for the tasting and my reasoning for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fine Distinctions</title>
		<link>http://www.readingthetealeaves.com/2010/06/06/fine-distinctions/</link>
		<comments>http://www.readingthetealeaves.com/2010/06/06/fine-distinctions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jun 2010 21:07:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lydiakung</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Green Teas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dragonwell]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Each spring brings the wonderful duty of sampling Dragonwell Green teas.
Tasting comparable grades from different suppliers is always interesting: brewing and drinking three 1st grade teas from three vendors still make for a learning experience, and so on for the other grades.  Tasting Dragonwell Greens at the top range, however, can be more challenging, although [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Precision Plucking</title>
		<link>http://www.readingthetealeaves.com/2010/05/29/precision-plucking/</link>
		<comments>http://www.readingthetealeaves.com/2010/05/29/precision-plucking/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 May 2010 06:49:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lydiakung</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Green Teas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[buds & budsets]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve all seen travel posters of tea gardens: lushly verdant hills, with tea bushes in the foreground and depicting workers hovering over them.  The pickers are usually garbed in colorful native dress, photogenic but not really suitable for their work or accurate.  These days, in China, if there is a uniform, it is likely to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alishan Teas</title>
		<link>http://www.readingthetealeaves.com/2010/05/22/alishan-teas/</link>
		<comments>http://www.readingthetealeaves.com/2010/05/22/alishan-teas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 May 2010 23:55:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lydiakung</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Green Teas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oolong Teas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lightly oxidized Oolongs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pouchong]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taiwan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tung Ting]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I confess to tuning in occasionally to the Food Network channel.  One show I did catch by chance was Alton Brown&#8217;s episode on tea (10/9/08).  Brown is a good explainer when it comes to the chemistry of foods.
He began by showing the (obvious) difference between leaf teas and fannings (that go into traditional teabags), reviewed water [...]]]></description>
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