after a few months on the bench i returned to the active roster today, lucky me. it was a depressing day. first i learned that my favorite clerk has decided to retire at the end of the year. good clerks are worth their weight in gold. next i learned that a long time colleague has leukemia and is off the shelf indefinitely. my friends are dropping like flies.
after a few hours it was down to business. i put on my coat and took a walk to chinatown to pick up some hand rolled tea. another bummer, the chinese herb store where i pick up tea had shut down. i found a "tea shop" and decided to give it a try. as soon as i walked in i knew it was a tourist trap, the clerks were dressed in fancy silk outfits and the store was spotless. plus they spoke perfect english. i found some nice tea and it was $78 for a little canister, a totally outrageous price so i declined their offer and left in search of another store. as luck would have it i found a grungy little herb store with a few shabbily dressed old chinese ladies behind the counter. they couldn't speak english for sour apples but when i said tea they pointed me in the right direction.
guess what. i found some beautiful packages of hand rolled tea for $6.99! what a difference, $78 vs $6.99.
what the hell, i decided to pick up some fish on the way home to celebrate.
i love you sons of bitches.
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25 comments:
I have never seen tea rolled like that! Interesting. Does it make a pot or a cup?
We don't have a Chinatown here. I don't know why. Cali is full of them!
And the Chinese food here is more Americanized. I went to a restaurant here that is supposed to be award winning... and wondered what sort of award it was. Meh.
Where is Hop Sing when I need him?
Great bargain, though! I bet the tea is great.
Yup, friends start dropping off like fly's. But there's always new friends showing up so it's all okay.
No chinks here that I know of, and I just get what little tea I drink at Safeway, tea is just a pee anyway. :-)
I like watching those little tolls of tea slowly unfurl in the hot water. It's mesmerizing.
silly - you drop the balls into a cup of freshly boiled water and watch the magic begin as the secret agent below says. the best part is you get whole tea leaves rather than a bunch of ground of leaves and stems etc.
bill - i've asked you not to use the
"c" word.
secret - yup, watching the leaves open is half the fun. plus you get all the benefits of the green tea.
bill - i've asked you not to use the "c" word.
Can I say white trash? Honky?
Hah, what kind of sap would pay $78 for a packet of tea? That might be a good price in 2211! Have you heard about the health benefits of green tea or do you just like the taste?
BBC, only if you're facing a mirror.
Okay... I've heard them called "tea flowers" I think. Now I have to try them. Is there a flavor that you suggest?
gb - a tourist mesmerized by an attractive smiling asian woman. or someone looking for a gift at that price point.
leslie - who gives a shit!
silly - most of them are jasmine flavored. i think it's more of a visual experience than a flavor experience.
Leslie is a b****.
Hey, not bad weather this month so far hey? But they are predicting rain on the way.
bill - we're expecting a dusting of snow tonight with rain tomorrow, thank christ.
You got lucky with that little store. Double lucky you got the same tea you eye before for that much of a price difference.
Did you celebrate by making a big pot of tea, dance and go crazy?
Did you celebrate by making a big pot of tea, dance and go crazy?
I want to know you go crazy when you already are.
kelly - maybe with a little grand marnier in the tea.
bill - you go crazier!
I've never seen tea like that either..if I knew they had it I would have bought a bunch of it when I was in San Francisco ..I used to go to China Town all the time...I love good tea..but don't like flavored kind..like Irish Breakfast tea.
You were stimulating the economy of Chinatown so much that without you some of the shops went belly up.
Maybe you should put in a shop down there, wear fancy silk but undercut the tourist trap, just charge $50 for a little canister of tea.
You were stimulating the economy of Chinatown so much that without you some of the shops went belly up.
Maybe you should put in a shop down there, wear fancy silk but undercut the tourist trap, just charge $50 for a little canister of tea.
yellowdog - i'm not crazy about the jasmine scent they put in green tea.
tex - those chinese are pretty smart, if i charged $50 i'm sure they'd lower their price to $46.25.
Good chocolate is too damn expensive.
Didn't rain today, maybe tomorrow.
For $6.99 I'm wondering what they may have substituted for "tea"? Though $78 doesn't sound like a deal.
bill- i'm still eating my cheap pumpkin balls. the missus buys lindt chocolates for about 10X the cost. there isn't 10X more quality or taste in them.
robert - it's a tea leaf. if you're drinking tea in a bag, then you should ask yourself that question.
No rain again today, yea!! I just sent you an email.
Boy, sure is nice weather over here, much better than the weather said it would be.
we have light rain. i was too lazy to go bike riding today so i drove to the bakery and got a blueberry pie. ruby has a blue nose right now.
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