The province of Canton 廣æ�±çœ� is not known as one of the great tea growing areas of China, and the Cantonese are known as great tea drinkers; but in the north of the province, there is a district, which speaks a different Chinese dialect, more closely related to that spoken in the neighboring province of Hokkien ç¦�建 than that of Canton. In the Teochew Prefecture 潮州府, there is a small tea-growing region centred around Chao'an District.The most famous tea produced by this is region is Fenghuang dancong 鳳凰單å�¢. It is named for a mountain in this area: phoenix 鳳凰 fènghuáng. The word å–® dÄ�n means 'single,' and å�¢ cóng is a thicket or stand of trees.
The tea is famous for its distinctive lychee flavour, which is a natural part of the tea and not from added flavouring. It is an oolong tea, but the leaves are still quite green and very loosely rolled. Because it is so loosely rolled, you can only get four decent infusions from the tea. The tea does not come from a single plantation and there is no regulatory body, but as a rough guide, a hundred grams of the tea is around SGD20 to 40 (USD13 to 26).