Shanghai · Chunghwa family · 10 mg mid-size
Chunghwa Double Mid-Size (中华(双中支))
Chunghwa (also romanized Zhonghua, 中华) is the cigarette China keeps for the moments that matter, and this is that name in a lighter, 89 mm mid-size body. You get the house plum-and-benxiang aroma, a smooth low-sting draw, and a twin foil-pack box built to keep an opened carton fresh. Here is the straight version of how it tastes, who it fits, and how to tell the real domestic pack from the duty-free one.
TAR10 mgNICOTINE0.9 mgCO10 mgLENGTH89 mm mid-sizeBARCODE6901028018715
The national name, mid-size cut
Chunghwa is not a cigarette you have to be sold on. Made in Shanghai since 1951, it is the pack a Chinese family brings out for a wedding table or a New Year toast, the one that says the occasion counts. It has spent years as the country’s benchmark premium smoke, the name everyone else is measured against, and its Tiananmen-gate box is about as recognisable as a cigarette pack gets.
The Double Mid-Size is that heritage in a modern shape. When China swung toward slimmer, mid-size rods late last decade, Chunghwa answered with this: the same house blend and the same plum-scented character, dialled down into an 89 mm mid-size rod that is easier to smoke and easier to carry. Think of it as the everyday face of a very prestigious name, rather than a new flavour.
By the numbers
1951first rolled in Shanghai‘Guoyan’China’s ‘national cigarette’10 mgfull-figure, not low-tar2 × 10twin foil packs per box
For years Chunghwa was the single best-selling premium brand in the country, the yardstick everyone else was held against. The Double Mid-Size is its reach into the mid-size format that swept China late last decade: the famous name, in a shape far more smokers keep in a pocket day to day.
What you’re really buying
Strip away the heritage and the box and the reason to smoke this is the aroma. Chunghwa’s house signature is a clean, natural tobacco scent, its ‘benxiang’, lifted by a soft plum-fruit sweetness (the meizi note) that lives in the smoke, never sprayed on and never a candy hit. In the mid-size that plum note is turned down from the full hard-pack, and what is left reads mellow and fine; smokers reach for the phrase danya chunhou, ‘light and elegant but still rich.’ Behind it, a neat trick: the box holds two separate foil packs, so once you are into the first, the other ten stay sealed against the air. An opened box keeps its moisture and its scent, which matters most in a dry winter.
One thing we won’t spin: ‘mild’ is a flavour, not a health claim. Reviewers call this one danya, soft and refined, but at 10 mg tar it is an ordinary full-strength cigarette, not a light and not a slim, and a gentle taste does not make it gentle on you. It harms you the way any cigarette does. We would rather tell you that than sell you a story.
How it smokes, start to finish
First draws
Soft and clean, the plum-tinged Virginia aroma easing in over a pure tobacco base — ‘dense but never harsh.’
The draw
Easy and low on the throat; it won’t scratch or catch you the way a strong king-size can.
Through the middle
The most layered stretch — natural benxiang and plum sitting together, this is where it tastes most like a Chunghwa.
Strength
Moderate. Enough to satisfy, well short of a heavy hit — smooth, not punchy.
The finish
Stays clean and just fades; a mid-size burns quick, so it’s over sooner than a full Chunghwa.
Room note
Clean and faintly sweet rather than acrid — an easy one to light in company.
Palatability — what it’s really like
If you’re choosing it on taste, here’s the fuller picture. This is built on one idea done well: Chunghwa’s clean flue-cured base, warmed by a quiet plum note, kept refined rather than strong. It’s a Virginia-style blend, so the smoke runs bright and lightly sweet, not dark, nutty or earthy — closer to ‘smooth and tea-like’ than ‘rich and roasted’ — and there’s no menthol chill and no capsule to swing the flavour halfway down. What you get instead is consistency: pack to pack, it tastes like the same easy, faintly fruited thing.
“Fine and soft, with that distinctive plum note; the smoke is steady and clean, no off-taste, and no sting going down.”
— a cnxiangyan reviewer
“Quality is honestly impeccable and the standing has never wobbled — it holds its premium.”
— a yanpk commenter
“A lot of people call it the stand-in for the Gold Mid-Size; for me it’s gone in a few draws, less punch than the soft-pack Chunghwa.”
— an honest yanpk review
“The plum isn’t as strong as the hard-pack, but the smoke is more mellow, with nice layers to it.”
— a Chinese tasting note
A couple of practical notes. Freshness counts here — a mid-size dries faster than a fat king-size, and that twin box only helps if you let it, so open the second foil pack only when you get there and keep spares cool and sealed. A fresh stick is noticeably smoother and more fragrant than one from a box that’s been open a fortnight.
And give it the right company. The plum note shows best on a clean palate — the first after a meal, with tea or a mild coffee — where there’s room for it to register. Push it up against a strong espresso or a whisky and the softness can just disappear; this isn’t a cigarette that shouts over anything.
The details
Aroma
Flue-cured (Virginia)
Filter
Acetate filter, no capsule
Contents
20/pack · 10 packs (200)/carton
Made by
Shanghai Tobacco Group
Who loves it, and who won’t
You’ll love it if you already like Chunghwa but find the full king-size a little strong, or if you want a genuinely premium, instantly recognisable mid-size that stays easy on the throat. It’s made for unhurried smoking — with tea, after dinner, when you’re there for the aroma more than the hit — and it still carries the name, which counts when you pass one across a table.
You won’t if you smoke for the nicotine. Heavy, pack-a-day smokers on strong regulars tend to find it thin and too quick, ‘gone in a few puffs,’ short on kick. And some Chunghwa fans would simply rather step up to the Gold Mid-Size than take its everyday sibling. Fair enough — better you know before you order two cartons of the wrong one.
How it stacks up
vs the regular hard-pack Chunghwa king-size: lighter, softer, quicker, with a gentler plum note but a rounder smoke. vs soft-pack Chunghwa: less strength, less length. vs its sibling the Gold Mid-Size: this is the broader, more reachable one — same house character, pitched for every day rather than the top shelf. vs a slim: more body and a fuller mouthfeel. No capsule, no menthol, no gimmick — just the house blend in a mid-size rod.
When it lands: spotting a fake
Chunghwa is the most-faked name in China, so give yours a ten-second look. The real domestic box is a deep, even crimson with crisp gold Tiananmen artwork; open it and you should see two separate foil packs of ten, not a single block; the steel stamp on the base is machine-uneven in depth, not flatly printed; and the barcode is 6901028018715 with tar marked 10 mg. See 5 mg on the box? That’s the duty-free export version, a different cigarette on a different barcode — not the one described here. Everything we send is source-direct and sealed; scan the pack code into Shanghai Tobacco’s anti-counterfeit system if you want to be sure.
If customs holds it
Your parcel goes out in plain, unmarked packaging with full tracking — nothing on it names the brand, product, origin or quantity. We dispatch within 1–3 business days and most orders land in about 7–15 days; our typical customs-clearance rate runs around 95%. Tobacco is a controlled import almost everywhere, so duty and personal limits are on you and vary by country — no honest seller can promise a parcel is never checked. What we promise is bounded: should your first parcel to a destination be seized, notify us within 14 days with the official notice and you get one free reship — our
shipping & customs terms spell out what’s covered. You pay one clear price up front, with no surprise ‘insurance’ or ‘clearance’ fees.
Good to know
Is 10 mg going to be too light for me?
If you smoke strong king-sizes, maybe — it’s a refined mid-size and heavy smokers often find it soft and quick. If you want low irritation, or you mostly smoke for the aroma, that softness is the whole appeal.
Is this a good one to gift?
It carries the Chunghwa name, which still means something, but it’s the accessible mid-size rather than the grand-gesture king-size. Lovely as a modest, everyday-premium gesture; for a status gift the full hard-pack or the Gold Mid-Size makes the bigger statement.
Domestic or duty-free — which am I getting?
The full-flavour domestic one: 10 mg tar, barcode 6901028018715. The lighter 5 mg export pack (the ‘zhongmian’ version) is a different product on a different barcode, so always check the tar figure and the barcode.
Will it still be fresh after shipping?
It ships factory-sealed by the carton. Keep unopened packs cool and dry, and thanks to the twin foil packs an opened box holds its moisture better than most — just open the second pack only when you reach it.
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