4/28/05


Ok, now this is something I'm fairly serious about, so bear with me.

What is the deal with the funky adjectives that tea dealers use to hook
people into buying? Around these parts, South-east China, we never see
"special grade" Longjing, "emperor's" TGY, or whatever else descriptors
that can be thrown onto the beginning of the name of the tea. I've
probably been to around a hundred or so shops around southeast China
and I've seen TGY, no matter what the grade or price, as simply TGY or
Anxi TGY; been to Hangzhou twice now and I've only seen Shifeng or XiHu
Longjing (sometimes Meihua Longjing...supposedly the other place around
there that produces LJ).

Am I missing something or is it just marketing?


Marketing. The inscrutable West. You need to be on your toes here.

Michael