About the Ranking
After visiting beautiful Hangzhou, you're not leaving empty-handed, are you? For souvenirs, the following Hangzhou specialties are your first choices.
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Dragon Well Tea is the number one of top ten Chinese famous teas. The tealeaves have green color, good smell, thick taste and nice shape, which are regarded as “four-wonder”. West Lake Dragon Well teas are divided into five types as “lion, dragon, cloud, tiger and plum”. Among which, the quality of “Lion Peak Dragon Well Tea” is the best. Especially, the tea before Clear & Bright is the rare product. Dragon Well Tea and Tiger Spring Water are called as two-wonder of West Lake.
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Jiuqu Red Plum Tea is thin and bended as fishhook. It has black color and strong smell. Its taste is fresh and thick. The color of tea water is red and bright like red plum. It has obtained the golden award of Panama International Fair in 1886. Jiuqu Red Plum Tea has been valuated as the highclass product amongst Gongfu black teas, by Tea Quality Inspection and Testing Center of Agriculture Department, in 1992.
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In the past, Xixi Jiang Village was known to the public because of its “Gudang Square Persimmons”. It is recorded that Xixi has 2,000 years’ history of planting persimmon trees. Most of them belong to the types of “fire pearl” and “square top”. Among which, the “square top” persimmons have a square and round shape, sweet and juicy, without cores or less cores. In general, they should be picked up when they are half matured. When they are matured completely, they would fall down when the branches are shook.