Dongfang Meiren ("'Oriental Beauty"), also known as Bai Hao (“White Tip”), Five Colour or Champagne Oolong, is a famous Taiwanese heavily fermented, non-roasted, tip-type oolong.

Produced from the Qing Xin cultivar in Miaoli in North Western Taiwan , our Oriental Beauty has wonderful and unique fruity aromas and sweet tasting bright reddish-orange tea liquor, without bitterness, that is due to the oxidation of the leaf beginning in the tea garden due to the attack of a particular insect (Jacobiasca formosana) that feeds on the stems, leaf and buds. Once seen as a problem, these leaf hoppers are now encouraged by organic methods of cultivation in generally warmer and lower altitude areas (300–800m) to produce this beautiful and distinct tea.

Harvested from young leaves and tips in the summer, Oriental Beauty is heavily oxidized (around 70%), approaching the level of black tea, with a long withering that also helps to encourage its’ sweetness.

Oriental Beauty is best steeped at lower temperatures (80°C–85°C) than is typical for other (more tightly rolled) oolongs for 1–2 minutes for the first pot and then longer for subsequent (and multiple) steeps.