Miang
Fermented tea leaf from northern Thailand, chewed as a stimulant and eaten as a snack rather than brewed. It belongs to the same South-East Asian tradition as Burmese lahpet and predates the drinking of tea in the region.
Character
Sour and savoury, and primarily a food rather than a drink. The infusion recorded here is the minor use, not the main one.
- Flavour
- Earthy, Vegetal
- Aroma
- Fresh
- Mouthfeel
- Medium, Astringent
- Complexity
- Moderate
- Notes
- sour fermented leaf, salt, green wood
- Aftertaste
- Sour and savoury.
Moderate intensity: noticeable weight or grip, but neither dominates the cup.
Provenance and production
- Origin
- Not recorded — blends have components rather than a place.
- Oxidation
- Not applicable
- Post-fermentation
- Microbial wet piling
- Harvest
- Summer
- Processing
- Steaming (Japanese fixation) → Wet piling (wo dui)
Brewing
Boiling and decoction
1–2 g/100 ml · 95–100 °C · 1 authored infusion
No caffeine estimate is authored for this tea. TeaHQ does not infer one from its category, because category predicts caffeine poorly — matcha and gyokuro carry more than many black teas.
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Editorially linked
Someone wrote down why these two belong together. The note below is theirs.
- Goishicha
Two fermented tea traditions outside China, one eaten and one drunk. Both are lactic-fermented and neither resembles Chinese dark tea.
Similar sensory profile
Shares controlled flavour, aroma and mouthfeel descriptors. A looser match — two teas can share descriptors and still taste nothing alike.
- Aracha
Shares 4 descriptors with Miang: vegetal, medium, astringent and fresh.
- Sencha
Shares 4 descriptors with Miang: vegetal, medium, astringent and fresh.
- Vietnamese green tea
Shares 4 descriptors with Miang: vegetal, astringent, medium and fresh.
- Xinyang Mao Jian
Shares 4 descriptors with Miang: vegetal, medium, astringent and fresh.
- Bulang sheng pu-erh
Shares 3 descriptors with Miang: vegetal, astringent and fresh.
- Chumushi sencha
Shares 3 descriptors with Miang: vegetal, medium and fresh.
- Duyun Mao Jian
Shares 3 descriptors with Miang: vegetal, astringent and fresh.