I worked at a canning factory every summer doing college. The stories
I could tell. I still don't eat canned vegetables. I'm going to
insist my agricultural service update it assay profile for insect
excretia. How do you know the websites aren't substituting snail
sludge. My stomach trumps my palette. I only recommend taking a blow
torch to the kettle. It wasn't always the case. If the elephant is
still under the BigTop and since I found my contacts I did some more
research and made a call. The Formosa oolong is called Bai Hai. My
source said he got a call from Georgia once and the lady came back
from Taiwan and wanted some BooHoo. This in response to my question
why almost everybody seems to call it BaiHao. The real problem with
transliteration nobody in Chinatown understands what you mean and we
use it to confuse ourselves. I made a note to add the characters for
BaiHao and BaiHai to my cheat sheet. The only way this works is find
the rosetta can of tea in the store with Chinese and English and see
what is inside. Or since I recently got my phone's company version of
broadband high speed dsl I can go surfing for those UTF-8 webpages in
Chinese. If it's 5 miles to the phone switch I'm sitting at mile
marker 7 and not getting what I pay for with the babybell disclaimer
your results will vary. Anyway better than 14.4. It's been too long
since I've been to Chinatown. You'll get more hits on Lin Yun BaiHao.
The rats are scurrying for cover since the Asian bird flu outbreak.

Jim

Michael Plant > wrote in message >...
> Space 2/19/04
>
>
> > Your free agricultural crop assay will give you a breakdown on fecal
> > percentage by mammal and bird. From what I know mammals have a common
> > enzyme and so do birds. Any new tea I get I check for contaminents in
> > the first pot. For fines you can see the imperfections before
> > brewing. For OP you examine the brewed leaves. From the recent posts
> > on perfumes in tea you can see the oils on the surface of the brewed
> > tea like a slick. So my cheap YinHao wasn't gassed and apparently so
> > far a fantastic bargain. Leave the tepid brewing water to the
> > courageous and always boil your water.
> >
> > Jim
>
>
> Jim,
>
> Never fear the extraneous material you discover in your leaf and brew; fear
> that which you don't find.
>
> BTW, there is a good point to be had from your Bai Hao discussion: Many
> Chinese descriptive phrases find their way to more than one type of tea. Bai
> Hao describes a type of green tea as well as it describes a type of oolong
> and is used to name both. Don't blame me though.
>
> Now, back to the rat goodie count. (Reminds me of a story about ants and
> aphids....)
>
> Michael