Comments on: MYSTERY TEA

By: Aimee Greeblemonkey

Aimee Greeblemonkey — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 21:52:46 +0000

Oh my. Nice structure in my last sentence.

By: Aimee Greeblemonkey

Aimee Greeblemonkey — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 21:51:14 +0000

She says that in photo #5 the characters in reverse down the side say that the “tea is from the best selection and is a very good brand.”

She says the the characters on the back are a story or a poem, something along the lines of, “I had my servant make me some tea in the evening, and I am sitting beside my bed and the wind is very nice, and enjoying my life and having the tea, etc.”

She says it doesn’t say what kind of tea it is on there, but she will have her father-in-law drinks tea all the time, so he’ll take a look. Ha!

By: Aimee Greeblemonkey

Aimee Greeblemonkey — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 21:41:26 +0000

Hang on, calling over my Chinese co-worker.

By: Ok, Where Was I?

Ok, Where Was I? — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 14:14:29 +0000

I’m kind of new here, so I didn’t catch the other tea post the first time, but I just read it, and it makes me want to go get a bunch of tea and collect tea tins. I mean, I love tea, so that’s part of it, but it seems to cool to have a collection and I want to be cool too.

By: superblondgirl

superblondgirl — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 12:49:19 +0000

Forget the tea, I love the plate!! The tea reminds me eerily of the chewed-up bits of cigar my dad spits out after sucking the damn thing all day, which makes it not so much appetizing as gross…. But I drink my tea out of bags, usually, because I’m ghetto like that.

By: laila

laila — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 20:20:44 +0000

Green Oolong! I love this stuff.

By: Felice

Felice — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 18:21:41 +0000

I agree with Kim (comment 14). This looks like the gunpowder tea in my pantry.

By: Nessa

Nessa — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 17:39:28 +0000

I worked in an organic tea shop & that looks like high quality oolong to me!

~Nessa

By: Victoria

Victoria — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 16:31:55 +0000

I’m 95% sure that’s Ooloong — Iron Buddha, to be precise. That’s a good one you got too, judging from the fullness of the leaves.

Often, the packaging doesn’t correspond to the stuff inside, because the shops buy generic boxes and fill them with different leaves bought in bulk.

By: fayeth

fayeth — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 14:11:46 +0000

#5 says “Specially selected famous tea”

From the text in #4, it’s in Simplified Chinese which is used in China, as opposed to the Traditional Chinese characters used in Taiwan.

None of the pictures show the name of the tea though…It’s a pity…

And I agree with Regina, you should try the Iron Goddess of Mercy Oolong…It’s great!