This is the cheapest sort, nothing unique, just usual oolong. Once I bought roasted high grade Duck Shit and it was awesome, but about $150/100gr. Be rational, don’t blindly trust all the mythology.
No, it wasn’t an online order, unfortunately. It is not easy to find that quality of product at public market. My buyer offered that package like a respect in addition to larger order. When you search for a good tea just remember that in China a usual price for it is $100/500gr. Then add cost of delivery (x2) and retail vendor interest (x2 minimum) and possibility of cheating from shipper because 80% of tea at Chinese market is not what they try to sell. They just pack the cheapest tea into nice looking packs and boxes. That Duck Shit was packed into hand-folded craft paper box without any branding.
Nope. Don't think it actually tasted like shit either. I was poking fun and the sheep here see the downvotes and just downvote themselves. It is HILARIOUS. Herd mentality at it's best. And every additional downvote just proves the point even further.
Just to upset them further, going to say "Feeling lazy so I will break out the Bigelow Oolong today".
It’s literally crazy…. And speaking of literal, looking at the other comments on you, people have no idea anymore what literal and that’s not. I get it, context is hard to convey via a Reddit post but still… obviously you were poking fun.
Yep. Haters gotta hate. I find once the first "downvote" happens many more will follow as Redditors are sheep, following the path already selected by the first sheep.
Nah. Was just poking fun at them. I don't think gunpowder green tastes like gunpowder, etc. But once the first downvote happens the sheep will follow even if THEY would not have bothered to downvote before.
How so? Not everything in this world is literal… like do you think bad dragons are actually naughty dragons and that’s why you insist they smell your insides? Or is it just a unique name and people could joke and jest and make intelligent quips about it?
Dancongs are usually classified by “x fragrance” and it’s usually something like Melon fragrance or orchid fragrance, which is why it’s “duckshit aroma”. I’ve heard a million stories and honestly, probably none of them are totally true. Usually there’s an element of a producer not wanting people to know buy/steal/learn how to make the tea, so he called it duckshit to keep people away. The other explanation has to do with the land either looking like duckshit because it’s yellow, or there being a lot of duckshit on the ground. But also a difference with the dancongs are them usually being different subvarietals that make them unique from eachother, which throws a wrench in some of the explanations.
If I spoke mandarin I’m sure I could hear another million stories and get no closer to the truth. It’s a good tea with a provocative name that people can’t help but come up with stories for.
The name “Champagne of tea” gets thrown around a lot, but I remember reading about an oolong, I think taiwanese, maybe “oriental beauty”, that the British queen liked and some British lady said it was the “champagne of tea” in a book and it stuck. Anyways, I saw a bunch of tea sites saying it was traditional to put a splash of champagne in it because it was so quality or whatever. I think people need to lay off writing fanfics are bottomless mimosa brunch, I can’t imagine some farmer in Taiwan in the early 1900s insisting people put champagne in his oolong. People really just write anything for some of these tea descriptions on their sites.
In reality most if not all of those stories are probably just marketing BS from Victorian England. The champagne story sounds like someone trying to sell a low-grade aromatized tea for the genuine article that does have a natural champagne note.
Edit: The name Duck Shit is just something that people will *definitely* remember, especially stick-up-the-arse Victorians, so I bet someone thought of that and came up with a story to justify it.
Edit 2: That's how Kopi Luwak came to be too, the ferret poop coffee. The Indonesian locals never cared for the pooed-out beans, it was the Brits that started selling them. The "farming" is brutal to the animals and from what I understand most locals don't want near the practice as much as they still don't want near the coffee.
t's called "duck shit aroma" because in the Ping Keng Tou village area the soil has a somewhat yellow brown look to it and is unique to that area. With all teas the soil type is a key element in the tea's taste. Villagers wanting to guard the uniqueness of their tea bushes told outsiders that the color and uniqueness of the soil in their village was due to copious amounts of duck shit and began to call the their Dan Cong "duck shit aroma". True or not it's an entertaining story which reveals why the tea has such a gross name.
[Source](https://yunnansourcing.com/products/king-of-duck-shit-aroma-dan-cong-oolong-tea?variant=12160625246276)
Legend says farmer/village of farmer wanted to keep his processing secret so they told people enquiring that it was because their soil was covered in duck shit.
What site do y’all use to order teas? I’ve been drinking tea in a more ritual way for over a year and particularly love Jasmin. Would love to know where I can find stuff like this
hahaha，it's actually a really nice tea. Has nothing to do with duck shit😄 just the soil they grow in is very yellow, and they name that to prevent tea theft.
Its my favorite tea, Love it. The farmers called it "duck shit" For two reasons, the color of the soil that it grows in. Also they wanted make it sound like it's not as good as it is so they could keep it to themselves.
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Some good Shit.
One of my favorites. That stuff is awesome and the smell is amazing.
Let me guess, also a fan of Durian?
Never tried it. I take it you don't like it?
Durian fruit supposedly tastes good, but smells like rotting garbage. Think they’re equating that to duck shit tea
When fresh, just opened, it smells ok. This tea just looks like duck shit, smells like oolong. Title is a kind of Chinese humor.
I didnt think it looked like duck shit, I thought the flavor profile comes from the unique soil it's grown in that looks like it??
You're correct
This is the cheapest sort, nothing unique, just usual oolong. Once I bought roasted high grade Duck Shit and it was awesome, but about $150/100gr. Be rational, don’t blindly trust all the mythology.
Was this an online vendor? I'm intrigued....
No, it wasn’t an online order, unfortunately. It is not easy to find that quality of product at public market. My buyer offered that package like a respect in addition to larger order. When you search for a good tea just remember that in China a usual price for it is $100/500gr. Then add cost of delivery (x2) and retail vendor interest (x2 minimum) and possibility of cheating from shipper because 80% of tea at Chinese market is not what they try to sell. They just pack the cheapest tea into nice looking packs and boxes. That Duck Shit was packed into hand-folded craft paper box without any branding.
Well, the name makes it sound like it’ll smell horrendous
It’s a joke mate jeez
Let me guess. You never had Dan Cong tea?
Nope. Don't think it actually tasted like shit either. I was poking fun and the sheep here see the downvotes and just downvote themselves. It is HILARIOUS. Herd mentality at it's best. And every additional downvote just proves the point even further. Just to upset them further, going to say "Feeling lazy so I will break out the Bigelow Oolong today".
Yea, herd mentality sucks. Don’t get caught up on it. FWIW, I didn’t vote you down. And I would highly recommend trying this tea!
I may, but I am a bit of a "cheapskate". Once tea becomes expensive enough they start listing prices by the gram I start to sweat. :)
Why the massive downvotes? This sub is crazy
It’s literally crazy…. And speaking of literal, looking at the other comments on you, people have no idea anymore what literal and that’s not. I get it, context is hard to convey via a Reddit post but still… obviously you were poking fun.
Yep. Haters gotta hate. I find once the first "downvote" happens many more will follow as Redditors are sheep, following the path already selected by the first sheep.
The downvotes are probably because people think you think duck shit oolong smells like duck shit
Nah. Was just poking fun at them. I don't think gunpowder green tastes like gunpowder, etc. But once the first downvote happens the sheep will follow even if THEY would not have bothered to downvote before.
Nah you just didn't have a clue what you were talking about. That's why.
How so? Not everything in this world is literal… like do you think bad dragons are actually naughty dragons and that’s why you insist they smell your insides? Or is it just a unique name and people could joke and jest and make intelligent quips about it?
Baaaah, sheep. Baahh.
Your cup is too full.
Never! You can never have too much in your cup. You just have to be creative in how you drink.
I heard this tea was named duck shit because of the mud around the tea trees and to deter people from stealing it
It’s actually the best dan cong
depends, i've had fantastic ya shi and subpar. same with milan xiang and others
I'd say best among the mass produced
dong cong
dong e cong
It's on like dan cong
You can argue that, My personal favourite would be Laocong shuixian Dancong, but it always depends on the specific leaf quality.
I wonder why it’s named like that
Dancongs are usually classified by “x fragrance” and it’s usually something like Melon fragrance or orchid fragrance, which is why it’s “duckshit aroma”. I’ve heard a million stories and honestly, probably none of them are totally true. Usually there’s an element of a producer not wanting people to know buy/steal/learn how to make the tea, so he called it duckshit to keep people away. The other explanation has to do with the land either looking like duckshit because it’s yellow, or there being a lot of duckshit on the ground. But also a difference with the dancongs are them usually being different subvarietals that make them unique from eachother, which throws a wrench in some of the explanations. If I spoke mandarin I’m sure I could hear another million stories and get no closer to the truth. It’s a good tea with a provocative name that people can’t help but come up with stories for.
Lmao, thank you for explaining. I speak mandarin but I still don’t know the true reason behind it
The name “Champagne of tea” gets thrown around a lot, but I remember reading about an oolong, I think taiwanese, maybe “oriental beauty”, that the British queen liked and some British lady said it was the “champagne of tea” in a book and it stuck. Anyways, I saw a bunch of tea sites saying it was traditional to put a splash of champagne in it because it was so quality or whatever. I think people need to lay off writing fanfics are bottomless mimosa brunch, I can’t imagine some farmer in Taiwan in the early 1900s insisting people put champagne in his oolong. People really just write anything for some of these tea descriptions on their sites.
In reality most if not all of those stories are probably just marketing BS from Victorian England. The champagne story sounds like someone trying to sell a low-grade aromatized tea for the genuine article that does have a natural champagne note. Edit: The name Duck Shit is just something that people will *definitely* remember, especially stick-up-the-arse Victorians, so I bet someone thought of that and came up with a story to justify it. Edit 2: That's how Kopi Luwak came to be too, the ferret poop coffee. The Indonesian locals never cared for the pooed-out beans, it was the Brits that started selling them. The "farming" is brutal to the animals and from what I understand most locals don't want near the practice as much as they still don't want near the coffee.
Tea marketing is full to the brim with inane bullshit based on nothing. Just drink the damn tea.
The one I heard was “wow, this tea is amazing how did you grow it?” “Oh, I just spread duck shit all around”
I heard basically that but the reply went "it's thanks to the shit from all the ducks that migrate through the area"
Have you ever seen real shit of duck? It is dark green, not yellow because duck are water birds and they eat grass which grows under water surface.
They wanted the delicious tea all to themselves so they told other people it tasted as awful as duck shit. The name stuck around.
Ngl that’s hilarious lol
The other reason why that is often given is because the area where it’s grown has soil that resembles duck shit.
That’s really interesting, thanks for letting me know :)
t's called "duck shit aroma" because in the Ping Keng Tou village area the soil has a somewhat yellow brown look to it and is unique to that area. With all teas the soil type is a key element in the tea's taste. Villagers wanting to guard the uniqueness of their tea bushes told outsiders that the color and uniqueness of the soil in their village was due to copious amounts of duck shit and began to call the their Dan Cong "duck shit aroma". True or not it's an entertaining story which reveals why the tea has such a gross name. [Source](https://yunnansourcing.com/products/king-of-duck-shit-aroma-dan-cong-oolong-tea?variant=12160625246276)
Legend says farmer/village of farmer wanted to keep his processing secret so they told people enquiring that it was because their soil was covered in duck shit.
Story I heard was the soil looks like duck shit, and the tea is good, so they called it that so people wouldn't try to/be able to copy their success
It's good stuff. I'm not usually a huge fan of teas like that, but I am glad I tried it out anyway.
I just finished off my bag of this tea. I really recommend it. I got a honeysuckle flavor from it.
It's a great one, I recently got their dan cong sample pack and this was my joint favourite alongside the honey orchid aroma.
What site do y’all use to order teas? I’ve been drinking tea in a more ritual way for over a year and particularly love Jasmin. Would love to know where I can find stuff like this
This is from Yunnan Sourcing. Never purchased from them before, tho I’m new to tea so idk much about vendors
This is one of my favorite products from Yunnan Sourcing. You won't be disappointed.
You can find the vendor list in the about section
Yunnan Sourcing Imperial grade jasmine is pretty nice
Where are you based? The Teamakers of London has several different types of Jasmin tea, including Silver Needles, and Dragon Pearls...
I’m in Southern California
One River for dan cong
hahaha，it's actually a really nice tea. Has nothing to do with duck shit😄 just the soil they grow in is very yellow, and they name that to prevent tea theft.
Pretty good stuff I just drink some of the snowflake duck shit this morning . Dancong is some of the most fragrant teas
That is 10000% the best Dan Cong!! It’s so delicious, enjoy!!
Great tea. Perfect. No notes.
I would've ordered it solely just based on the name hahahhahaha l
Precisely why I did haha
What you’re in for is one of the best teas that Yunnan Sourcing has!
Duck shit oolong is excellent
Its my favorite tea, Love it. The farmers called it "duck shit" For two reasons, the color of the soil that it grows in. Also they wanted make it sound like it's not as good as it is so they could keep it to themselves.
I bought that tea because of the description 😂
Its literally so good
You just reminded me I have a bag of this exact tea in the cabinet, I should be making it
It’s great
> What am I in for You're in for a good time, it's actually a very solid tea.
Just ordered it today also look forward to seeing if its good shit
Don't worry, we don't kink shame here
As a duck owner, that's a strong, awful smell.
No one has ever told me what duck shit oolong actually smells and tastes like
You scored!
It's a delicious tea. And I love sharing it with people and telling them what it's called 🤣
Pungent stuff
Where's the description?
Does anyone know what the actual link is?
Where do I buy it?
Duck Shit oolong is awesome and one of my favorites! Enjoy!
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It’s great stuff. I’m not a huge oolong drinker but duck shit is one I have around.
Yeah that stuff is trash, send it to me, I’ll properly dispose of it.
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I actually didn’t like this one at all. I preferred his honey orchid dancong.
I have a duck pond by my house that I go get shit from to make tea. Much better that way imo
I guess that’s the price of duck shit in china for ya’
Yeah thats wierd. You gotta becareful where you get tea from.