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(Scott Dorsey) writes:

> Okay, I asked earlier about "Kalami" and "Barooti" teas, which are sold
> to the middle eastern market.
>
> I had thought all of these teas were Assam, although recently I found a
> Chinese tea in a Persian market in Washington which claimed to be "Kalami
> of Yunnan." But most of them are.

Have you tried that possibly Yunnan tea? And, if so, did it look and
taste like a Yunnan red/black?

> It turns out, and I want to thank my local Persian acoustician for the
> translation, that "Baroot" means "gunpowder" in Persia, and that the
> BOP-sized tea is sold as "Barooti" meaning like gunpowder.
>
> He said that "Gulabi" is a Persian word meaning "rose water," but he
> didn't see how that applied to tea.

Rose-*scented* tea isn't terribly unusual. Could that be it?

/Lew
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