Oriental Beauty - Taiwan derby and white chocolate pieces

and white chocolate pieces

or to ice cream for dessert

Scoop sorbet into sherbet dishes

As a gift to all of us who love tea

Oriental Beauty - Taiwan derby and white chocolate piecesLight, sweet and subtle. This is one of the worlds most mysterious teas, a bug bitten oolong indigenous to these mountains and known to tea connoisseurs as Bai Hao Oolong or Oriental Beauty. In late May and early June, rising temperatures nudge tiny leafhoppers to begin their annual feasting on succulent, young tea plants. In most instances, farmers would act to rid their gardens of these pests. But for tea farmers of Northwest Taiwan, these invaders