I came out of the closet this year, Denver. Our Chinatown is a bunch
of shopettes and large grocery stores strung out for miles along two
intersecting major boulevard corridors serving a large Vietnamese
population. Anytime I go I come back with whole Peking duck for $12.
I saw a new duck style called Ping where a much larger duck is split
open and roasted with outstreched wings and legs. One of these days
I'll get the special order roasted pig for $200. I previously
mentioned the apothecary type glass tea jars sold by several export
companies. I ran across a new exporter for rolled whole leaf dong
ding, west lake dragonwell and a georgous spring bud(all) green tea.
I'm going back to the store and unstocking them on this one. Still no
luck finding any green beeng cha. I reported before I found some for
$3.99 but I should have tasted before comparing the wrapping to the
websites which more than one said it was green. It was cooked. I do
like the taste anyway. You drink enough Chinese tea you expect the odd
taste.

Jim

Mydnight wrote:
> On 6 Dec 2004 06:07:20 -0800, "Space Cowboy" >
> wrote:
>
> >In my Chinatown all the boxes are labeled 'chawan' for what you call
> >'gaiwan'. It is bowl with no handle and the lid fits inside the rim
> >for brushing aside the tea leaves as you sip. You can buy cups with
> >handles where the lid sits on the rim with or without the infuser.
> >
>
> That's cool, I've not heard chawan used when referring to gaiwan.
> Where is your Chinatown? That would translate to 'tea bowl' where
> gaiwan translates to 'lid and bowl', so i guess it's just a matter of
> semantics. I know the Japanese word for it translates to something
> more akin to tea bowl.
>
> *shrugs*
>
>
> Mydnight