The kyusu is a tiny Japanese teapot with fluted tubular handle at
imaginary right angles to the spout so a rotation of the wrist pours
the tea. Apparently popular with the Geishas. I just recently bought
a kyusu sake set which is my eclectic version for gongfu service.
Frankly I not even sure how you pour the liquid from say a 32 oz
Chinese herbal cooker since the spout and handle are essentially
parallel. Maybe from the edge of a table where the handle acts like a
crank or a martial arts wrist to tilt the pot back. You gotta have
both. The two keywords for Chinatown cooking is china and clay. The
fluted tubular handle can't be unique so it remains who copied who.

Jim

Michael Plant > wrote in message >...
> Space 3/3/04
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> > Since you're in Chinatown look for a "Chinese herbal cooker" which I
> > mentioned here in 95 and nobody else since.

> to which I add that you'll find some really cool matching other pots and
> cookers of similar type as well as real cheap cooking utensils, much neater
> than ones you'd pay six times as much for. The things Jim refers to always
> looked like rough giant kyusus to me. Wouldn't think of boiling up herbs in
> anything else.