michael plant

Mydnight1114746678.822720.313280@g14...l egroups.com4/28/05
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Marketing. The inscrutable West. You need to be on your toes here.

Michael

space cowboy

Historically tradenames used among traders and not sellers. The
terminology has creeped into retail. I buy Imperial Gold Oolong from
my local tea shoppe but really is a lightly oxidized TGY. I recently
conjectured that Dong Ding and Green Jade Pouchong is the same tea.
The only consistency there is no consistency in names. I don't mind
the names but to paraphrase Sasha, It's the taste stupid. My green
bings arrived from China with the wrappers in shreads. The cakes were
intact but some flaking so I got a nice green potpourri blend courtesy
of the Post. The seller included a commercial sample of sweet tibetan
yak butter instant tea. He said the salty version was only good for 10
thousand foot plus plateaus.

Jim


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hiya, mydnight.

hey, i was wondering if many of the chinese
greens you see commonly from north american
tea vendors are readily available at a typical
chinese tea shop? teas like spring blossom
pekoe, three-cup fragrance, green mist,
melon seed....the list is nearly endless, and
it seems as if every year i see tea names that
are new to me. is the variety just over-
whelming there? .................................p*

michael plant

I was under the impression that "melon seed" refers to the shape into which
the leaves are formed, sort of melon seed like. No?

Michael


Space Cowboy1115129973.616159.236850@o13g2...leg roups.com5/3/05
10:19netstuff@ix.netcom.com

space cowboy

There was a discussion about the meaning of Pian previously in the
group. The leaf looks like it went through the cutters on the
enlongated axis. The serated edges then curled a tiny bit. How many
Chinese did it take to line up the leaf on the drying racks? The
seller mentioned the Chinese use of ideograms/pictograms to describe
nature is beyond the Western imagination. The Chinese kept such
meticulous records of nature for medicinal purposes how come they
didn't discover Evolution? The bug on top of the leaf for yang was the
same as the bug on the bottom of the leaf for yin except for
adaptation. More pu adjectives on the way: a bag of green Tibetan yak
pies, a bag of blemished red eye Hsiaguan tuo wrappers.

Jim


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