Ozzy please.answer@NG writes:

Michael Plant wrote in
:

...
Right, I've had it in this form too. I find it puzzling that
kudingcha exists in two such radically different configurations. But
real tea has lots of puzzlements too, and I suppose I prefer to spend
my attention on good old C. sinensis.

Likwise. Agreed. I got it in a neighborhood teashop that didn't quite
hit the mark, but deserved support nonetheless. Unfortunately, they
quickly went out of business. Such is life in Brooklyn. Michael

Brooklyn? (Applause from the '40s and '50s audience.) I live in the borough
of homes and churches too. I feel compelled to ask if there are any worthy
teashops still in business there?

There's a semi-worthy one run by a Fujianese family around the corner
from the 8th Avenue Sunset Park Chinatown strip on - what? - 48th
Street? I'm not sure. They have, or had maybe a year ago,
vacuum-packed greenish oolongs, but also fairly cheap tea in bins,
including pretty good Dian Hong and Phoenix. They also have Chinese
herbs, but that would be off-topic...

/Lew
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