Anxi Tie Guan Yin is the most famous of all Chinese Oolong teas. The name Tie Guan Yin means “Iron Goddess of Mercy” and the tea is as magnificent as its name implies. This tea has a very sweet and appetizing honey-life fragrance.

Oolong tea first began to be produced at a small plantation in the Wuyi Mountains of Fujian, China at the end of the Ming Dynasty about 400 years ago. It's the location of some of the finest and rarest teas in the world. The tea is created using the same oxidation process that turns green tea into black tea, but the process does not take as long. So Oolong tea is a cross between green and black tea, having some of the characteristics of both, with moderately high levels of polyphenol antioxidants, such as epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG), but a more robust taste.

In recent years, oolong tea has proven itself a healthy part of any diet. With about half the caffeine of coffee, it has the capability of being a drink everyone will be drinking several times a day.

Benefit 1: Oolong tea is 150% more effective at boosting the metabolism than Green Tea. Scientists at the University of Tokushima found that men consuming a "typical American diet" increased their rate of fat burning by 12% and boosted calories burning by 3.4% while drinking Oolong tea without influencing the absorption of fat-soluble vitamins.

Benefit 2: Polyphenol-enriched oolong tea blocks the absorption of dietary fat and cholesterol by over 50%, and prevents obesity, even while eating a high-fat diet.

Benefit 3: Oolong tea can serves as a natural remedy for constipation. This is mainly because it promotes "friendly" bacteria in the intestines thereby encourages bowel regularity and promotes digestion.

Benefit 4: Oolong tea reduces LDL cholesterol as well as raising HDL ("good") cholesterol. Thus, Oolong tea protects the heart and vascular system. Regular tea drinkers, those who drink two or more cups a day, have lower cholesterol levels and reduced incidence of heart disease and stroke.

Benefit 5: Oolong tea improves glucose levels in diabetics. Research reported in the 2007 Journal of Exercise Physiology showed that consuming 75ml of oolong tea reduced blood glucose levels by an average of 11 mcg.

Benefit 6: Oolong tea has antioxidant properties, which prevent cancer.

    After given access to all these Features of Oolong tea, why don't you allow yourself the enjoyment of all the flavor and benefits of drinking the tea?

    Directions: 100 ℃ water, brew 5 to 6 times

    Preservation Condition: Keep in the shade.

    Guarantee Period: 24 months

    How to make tea? ---- Semi-fermented Tea (Oolong Tea, Tie Guan Yin Tea)

  1. Pre-heat the teapots: wash teapot, fair cup, teacup and fragrance-smelling cup with hot water. Put teapot lid in the tea tray, and pour near boiling water to half full into the teapot, Cover the teapot, and shake the teapot slowly. Then pour the boiling water in turn into the fair cup, tea cup and fragrance-smelling cup. Pour the remaining boiling water into the tea tray.

      2. Put a certain amount of tea into the teapot. For stripe-style Oolong Tea, the amount of tea is about two-third full of the teapot. For spherical and hemispherical Oolong tea, one third is ok. It also depends on the numbers of the people who drink the tea. Brewing: pour the boiling water into the teapot to overflow, remove the floating foam, and cover the teapot.

    3. Pour the boiling water on the teapot counter-clockwise until evenly heated. This can make the tea fully brew.

    4. Flush the cups one by one with the hot water when the tea is steeping. After that, pour the hot water to the tea tray, and put the teapot set in order.

    5. Tea wash：after a couple of minutes, drain the water into the fair cup. Generally speaking， more tea, less time; less tea, more time.

    6.Empty the tea cup.

    7. Empty the fair cup, pour hot water into the teapot, and fill the fair cup again.

    8. Fill the fragrance-smelling cup with the tea. Then pour the tea from fragrance-smelling cup to tea cup. Before drinking the tea, you can smell the empty fragrance-smelling cup.