Smokey tongs - bag 100g - lapsang souchong smoked black tea A fantastic powerful, robust fermented black tea from Yeh Tea, also called Lansang Souchong tea. This tea is made of smoked tea, ideal if you like raw earthly tones. Beautiful to combine with dishes that contain herbs such as rosemary, thyme, marjoram or laurel. This tea comes from the Wuyi mountains in the province of Fujian on the southeast coast of China. It is also sometimes called 'smoking tea'. The tea is dried over a fire from pine. This is where the tea owes typical taste. According to Legends, the harvest of tea was slow down when the army of the Qing dynasty through the land of the land. In order to meet the needs of tea they had to think of something to speed up the process. By letting the tea dry above a fire, one could come to an end product much faster.