In article .com>,
cha bing > wrote:
>. . . as a follow up to my own post, I searched rftd and found this
>series of posts on a very similar topic:
>
>http://groups.google.com/group/rec.f...6c5d14c24c86bf
>
>I know no vietnamese whatsoever and don't know where to really start
>with the vietnamese on the package. But the most significant words
>appear to be "Tra Hoa Sen". Because I know some Chinese, that was my
>focus. There are three Chinese characters on the package: Mo4 (has
>grass radical), Li4 (doesn't have grass radical, but probably should),
>and Cha2 (tea). There is no English anywhere on the package. Now I am
>wondering if this is really jasmine tea or not.

It's not. The Vietnamese is "Lotus Flower Tea." This is Hue style
tea made with lotus, not Saigon style made with jasmine.

For some reason just about every tea from Vietnam is sold in the US
as "Jasmine" no matter WHAT it really is.
--scott
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"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."