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He shoots! He scores!!!!
700gm of unbranded Keemun tea was found today. We'll actually, I found a lot more than that, but that what I bought in Kobe's Chinatown district! Packaged in the same 100gm packs that my little (now defunct) Chinese used to sell, even with the same label and at the same price, ¥300 (about $4 USD.) I guess the importer provides the labels for the shops, as I bought from two different stores and both used identical stick-on labels but both did their own bag filling! I found some in the first shop I entered, but the tea was rather loosely packed so I only bought 200gm from them. But further down the street (Kobe's Chinatown is only on one street and is two blocks long) I found another shop that used a vacuum sealer bagger so I bought another 5 packages.
Then further on, I found an Oolong and Pu-erh specialty store that had some outrageously expensive teas for sale! They did have a Keemun but they wanted ¥1250 ($15) for 100gm. Based on the fact that I prefer the $5-jar caviar to $75oz caviar, and prefer the ¥350 Green Japanese tea to the ¥2500 Green Japanese tea, I decided I would probably like the cheaper Keemun too so left the shop!
I bought a lot of other goodies while I was in that district, stocking up on dried shrimp, dried scallops, several different soy sauces, jugs of preserved mustard greens, fermented black beans, dried sheets of tofu skin, and a slew of other foods. I even scored a package of sweet duck sausage... but that has to get saved for next weekend's 'off-diet' treat.
So right now I am drinking my new unbranded Keemun, a great big smile on my face, and wondering just how I'm going to explain the seven bags of tea sitting on the kitchen table to my wife...
Stitchawl
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