Ya Shi Xiang
鸭屎香 · Duck Shit Oolong
Oolong
A farmer was afraid someone would steal his bush, so he gave it the ugliest name he could think of. Duck shit fragrance. Nobody asked about it again, and the name lasted a hundred years.
In 2014 a panel finally renamed it silver flower, for the honeysuckle that rises when it brews. Most people still use the old name.
The mother tree stands at Pingkengtou in yellow mineral soil, and the tea is picked tree by tree rather than by field. It pours orange-gold and thick, honeysuckle first, and there is stone underneath all of it from the first steep to the last.
- honeysuckle
- gardenia
- honey
- Origin
- Phoenix Mountain, Guangdong, China
- Water
- 100°C / 212°F
- Ratio
- 7 g / 100 ml
- Caffeine
- Medium
- Rinse
- Yes · 5s
Phoenix dancong aroma-type canon
How much leaf
Gong fu brewing is leaf-heavy and short. Set your gaiwan or pot size and this is what to weigh out.
Vessel volume
100 ml
Recommended dose
Use ~7.0g of tea
The session
8 infusions after the rinse, about 3m of total contact time.
- Rinse5sWake the leaf and pour it away — this one isn’t for drinking.
- Steep 18sA sweetness the name would deny.
- Steep 210sHoneysuckle floods the first breath.
- Steep 312sGardenia layers over the honey.
- Steep 415sA custard creaminess rounds it.
- Steep 520sApricot brightens the floral rush.
- Steep 625sStone coolness cuts the sweetness.
- Steep 735sFlowers thin toward clean mineral.
- Steep 850sA honeyed stone finish remains.
Also sold as
Duck Shit Aroma, Yin Hua Xiang, Silver Flower Fragrance, Dan Cong
In Czech and Slovak shops
Ya Shi Xiang Dan Cong
Nearby in the family
- Yin Hua Xiang · official 2014 rename
- Phoenix Dancong · aroma type
Steaper times this session for you
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Get notified at launchThese numbers are a median of independent gong fu sources, not a law. Leaf age, vessel and water all move them. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.