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Well, as I said I was traveling with my wife and 2 year old son. I
wasn't able to spend a lot of time in Chinatown. By the time we got
there it had already been a really long day. We had late lunch, early
dinner at a restaurant on Sacramento St. I found a couple of markets
with the standard Chinese commercial brands like FooJoy. Those are easy
to find around here, so I moved on. We walked on Washington between
Sacramento and Grant streets and I found a couple of herb/tea shops.
They mostly had strange dried things. I then found a shop with a wall
of various teas. There in the middle were the Yunnan Tuocha's that I
had been buying from Imperial Tea Court
http://www.imperialtea.com/AB1002000...Category_ID=23
.. They were $1.50 instead of $5. They seem much older than what I've
been getting from ITC. They have more of a "clean horse barn" smell and
are smoother. The paper inside the boxes I bought have 1992 stamped on
them. I don't know if this is the year they were made or not. My big
mistake is that I only bought 4. I was trying to hurry and not be too
selfish with my families time and vacation money. I drink one of these
tuocha's every month or so. I could have bought a two year supply for
under $40. And no, I don't remember the name of the shop. It wasn't
until we were sitting in my hotel room in Monterey that I realized my
mistake. I've been doing some internet searching to see if I can come
up with a name and number for the shop. The shopkeeper spoke fairly
good English and I might as well see if they would be willing to ship
more to me.

I also got some Shifeng Brand Lung Ching in a nice tin with a tight
fitting inner lid. It's not the best Lung Ching I've had, but it is a
very nice tea.

I also stepped into Yau Hing Company on Grant St.. It looked like they
had a nice selection and were knowledgeable about their teas. I
didn't buy anything as they were busy and I didn't have time to sit
down and have them brew up some teas to sample.

Blues

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thanks for the report, blues - don't
you hate it when you can't remember
the names of things? argh! ..........p*


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> Well, as I said I was traveling with my wife and 2 year old son. I
> wasn't able to spend a lot of time in Chinatown. By the time we got
> there it had already been a really long day. We had late lunch, early
> dinner at a restaurant on Sacramento St. I found a couple of markets
> with the standard Chinese commercial brands like FooJoy. Those are easy
> to find around here, so I moved on. We walked on Washington between
> Sacramento and Grant streets and I found a couple of herb/tea shops.
> They mostly had strange dried things. I then found a shop with a wall
> of various teas. There in the middle were the Yunnan Tuocha's that I
> had been buying from Imperial Tea Court
>
http://www.imperialtea.com/AB1002000...uct_ID=137&Cat
> egory_ID=23
> . They were $1.50 instead of $5. They seem much older than what I've
> been getting from ITC. They have more of a "clean horse barn" smell and
> are smoother. The paper inside the boxes I bought have 1992 stamped on
> them. I don't know if this is the year they were made or not. My big
> mistake is that I only bought 4. I was trying to hurry and not be too
> selfish with my families time and vacation money. I drink one of these
> tuocha's every month or so. I could have bought a two year supply for
> under $40. And no, I don't remember the name of the shop. It wasn't
> until we were sitting in my hotel room in Monterey that I realized my
> mistake. I've been doing some internet searching to see if I can come
> up with a name and number for the shop. The shopkeeper spoke fairly
> good English and I might as well see if they would be willing to ship
> more to me.
>
> I also got some Shifeng Brand Lung Ching in a nice tin with a tight
> fitting inner lid. It's not the best Lung Ching I've had, but it is a
> very nice tea.
>
> I also stepped into Yau Hing Company on Grant St.. It looked like they
> had a nice selection and were knowledgeable about their teas. I
> didn't buy anything as they were busy and I didn't have time to sit
> down and have them brew up some teas to sample.
>
> Blues

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> thanks for the report, blues - don't
> you hate it when you can't remember
> the names of things? argh! ..........p*
>


Yes, and it seems to be happening more and more lately. At least I still
remember to drink tea!

Blues


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