Our good friend Roy Fong of Imperial Tea Court of San Francisco, CA just
opened a new place in Berkeley at 1511 Shattuck.
As opposed to his tearoom at Powell and Broadway in SF, this has an open
space place, a garden inside. Epicurious Garden is a collection of several
gourme places. ITC is just one of them.
http://epicuriousgarden.com/index.html
If I understood him right they will also be serving very "chinese" chinese
food there shortly. I hope that the pot stench that permeates the vicinity
of the campus will spare the delicate interiors of the wenxianbeis.

Sasha.

Alex digy.net3/20/06


Our good friend Roy Fong of Imperial Tea Court of San Francisco, CA just
opened a new place in Berkeley at 1511 Shattuck.
As opposed to his tearoom at Powell and Broadway in SF, this has an open
space place, a garden inside. Epicurious Garden is a collection of several
gourme places. ITC is just one of them.
http://epicuriousgarden.com/index.html
If I understood him right they will also be serving very "chinese" chinese
food there shortly. I hope that the pot stench that permeates the vicinity
of the campus will spare the delicate interiors of the wenxianbeis.

Sasha.



Sasha,

Have we reason to fear a proliferation of
Tea Courts throughout the nation, bringing
tea to the masses in the style to which they
have become accustomed?

So, what's "very 'chinese' chinese food"?

Michael

"Alex Chaihorsky" writes:

Our good friend Roy Fong of Imperial Tea Court of San Francisco, CA just
opened a new place in Berkeley at 1511 Shattuck.
As opposed to his tearoom at Powell and Broadway in SF, this has an open
space place, a garden inside. Epicurious Garden is a collection of several
gourme places. ITC is just one of them.
http://epicuriousgarden.com/index.html
If I understood him right they will also be serving very "chinese" chinese
food there shortly. I hope that the pot stench that permeates the vicinity
of the campus will spare the delicate interiors of the wenxianbeis.

Hmm, how recently have you been to Berkeley? I spent a few hours
wandering the campus early last November and found it pretty tame.
The biggest crowd on Sproul Plaza was for the Young Republicans. I
didn't smell anything, uh, amiss either on campus or during several
walks on Shattuck.

/Lew
---
Lew Perin /
http://www.panix.com/~perin/babelcarp.html

Ever since opeining an ITC in San Francisco's gourmet haven at the
Ferry Building, Mr. Fong has seen a great boom in bussiness. He has
been working very hard to open this new Berkeley location and I'm sure
it will be a great success.
ITC seems committed to maintaining a high quality of product, but I
fear how this will affect the staff. Since the Ferry Building location
opened and proved to be a success, Mr. Fong seems to have a hard time
hiring and training knowledgeable employees. His best employee
recently left to pursue his academic career, and now when I go to the
main store the workers cannot answer simple questions about tea source,
age, leaf quality, etc. This is particularly true of the puerhs.
So, I wish Mr. Fong continued sucess, but I hope he can invest time in
the training of a knowledgeable staff.

'odors' in Berkeley, most of the recent UC grads that I know are
more concerned about earning potentials and investment portfolios to
have time for a little weed. The same cannot be said for the Stanford
grads that live above me and stink up the stairwell of our apartment
building.

-David L.

I see. May be my Berkeley experience is outdated or may be its because I
spend more time with Russian artists in Berkeley than with American
students....
I will be in the area (most probably) at the end of March - Roy and I have
some business to do - would you consider a quiet hour together at any of
these locations?

Sasha.


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Ever since opeining an ITC in San Francisco's gourmet haven at the
Ferry Building, Mr. Fong has seen a great boom in bussiness. He has
been working very hard to open this new Berkeley location and I'm sure
it will be a great success.
ITC seems committed to maintaining a high quality of product, but I
fear how this will affect the staff. Since the Ferry Building location
opened and proved to be a success, Mr. Fong seems to have a hard time
hiring and training knowledgeable employees. His best employee
recently left to pursue his academic career, and now when I go to the
main store the workers cannot answer simple questions about tea source,
age, leaf quality, etc. This is particularly true of the puerhs.
So, I wish Mr. Fong continued sucess, but I hope he can invest time in
the training of a knowledgeable staff.

'odors' in Berkeley, most of the recent UC grads that I know are
more concerned about earning potentials and investment portfolios to
have time for a little weed. The same cannot be said for the Stanford
grads that live above me and stink up the stairwell of our apartment
building.

-David L.

Certainly!
Email me off-forum. My address is the same as my username @mac.com.
Let me know when you are coming and we can arrange a meeting. I live
very close to the Powell Street location, so I could easily meet you
there.
-David L.