Lapsang Souchong has an interesting smoky, tarry flavour

that taste as if you are drinking the hot water run off from a newly paved macadam street...yeah, that's about right... well the run off might taste a little better..but.

plain oolong tea (as commonly served in chinese restaurants in NYC) is drinkable in the small quanities a chinese tea cup holds. but i don't eat out (chinese food) that often.