/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>20502074
>Isn't there oolong in the blend?
Some Russian caravan has oolong in the blend, but it's a very fermented and roasted oolong typically called formosa oolong, they don't even really make much of it anymore except for a few more traditional western tea vendors that still stock it.

>>20304303
If i was going to do Russian caravan i would do 10%-20% cheap smokey lapsang and then the balance would be some cheap broken leaf formosa oolong and some keemum if imanaged to find a good one but dianhong would work fine.
that said a charcoal roasted oolong probably is pretty close to what you would get buying a cheap formosa oolong so it should be a fine substitute.
The term formosa oolong is kinda stupid because its just an old name for taiwan. But formosa oolong kind of specifies a specific older style of taiwanese oolong like pic related that you typically only see these days from old school western vendors, its a roasted broken leaf oolong with lots of oxidation and its usually cheap.