> Hi folks, long time no post (happily a result of a long time being
> nowhere near the internet).
>
> Driving through Zhengzhou this week I happened upon a tea shop with
> the name
>
> Xin Lin Yu Lu (New Forest Jade Dew)
>
> As Yulu in Kanji is the name for gyokuro I was interested in finding
> out more about this - was it indeed the name of a chinese green or
> just the name of the shop? If a tea, could it have Japanese
> characteristics or indeed be grown & prepared in a similar way to
> gyokuro? For the record, Zhengzhou is the capital seat of Henan, not
> anywhere I'd expect to happen upon something spectacular ...

> To set minds at rest, it seems to be a variety of Xinyang Maojian, the
> familiar green (according to another teashop owner I asked last night,
> albeit through my bad chinese, so could well be wrong). I haven't
> picked any of it up yet, nor indeed had a look at the leaves to
> confirm it's a maojian, so if anyone knows different, chirp in.