On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 01:46:26 GMT, Rebecca Ore
> wrote:

>In article >,
> Mydnight > wrote:
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>> What in the devil is gunpowder tea anyway?
>
>It appears to be a rather nasty export green rolled into pellets most of
>the time. What I got from Foojoy was rather strong and smokey. There
>are some higher grades, but looks like most of it is for consumption
>outside China. The Chinese name is something like pearl tea. The
>pellets are much more compressed than the Ti Yuan Yin I've bought in
>Chinatown.

Interesting. I guess it's peddled to the lao wai or something.


Mydnight

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