Be careful when you're shopping around, for what you get may not be what you've paid for. A man in Kaohsiung recently purchased a package of premium Ali Mountain tea after sampling it first, only to discover that what he brought home was of much inferior quality. Here on CTS news, we have more details.

This is the A Li Mountain loose tea Mr. Chen purchased in a night market at the price of 1,600 NT dollars per 300 grams, but the tea tastes as plain as water without aroma and is not a bit like the tea he tasted at the stall before purchase.

He doubted that the stall owner had sold him fake mountain tea and decided to go back to the stall with a micro camera.

Although the stall owner promised that the tea he sold Mr. Chen was as same as the one he had tasted, all from the same bag of tea, Mr. Chen spotted some unusual things from the film he took.

He found that the stall owner made tea with leaves taken from the right side of the bag, but later the stall owner sold him the leaves taken out of the left side of the same bag.

CTS reporter took Mr. Chen's tea to a tea house for a professional examination where the tea house owner compared the real mountain tea with Mr. Chen's.

It turned out that Mr. Chen's tea was probably from Vietnam, costing 200 to 300 NT dollars per 600 grams.

The real A Li Mountain tea leaves were green while the Vietnamese ones were dark brown.

Also, A Li Mountain tea had a bright golden-yellow tea color while the fake one had a darker tea color.

Experts also suggest that consumers can try to tell the authenticity by the tea color before purchase but the best way to avoid getting fake teas is to buy tea at a certified tea house.