Thanks to everyone for their tall taels. Also if you take the 1.2oz
silver weight conversion and multiply by ten taels you get the also
common 12oz/340g beengs even though you are getting short changed with
this conversion rate. Since everyone is on a roll now one store in
Chinatown has the qizi bundles lined up like bowling balls on a bottom
shelf. Why the seemingly popular of shipment in seven pieces? I'll be
sure to double check that vendor on Ebay and make sure what he means by
a tael. How do you drank all of a 1000 tael buttery flavored black tea
log? Those bundles look convenient for hanging. So should I slit the
bamboo wrapping which seems tight or leave as is. On my recent trip to
the South I'm sitting at a truck stop eating supper next too a trucker
at the counter. Somehow we somehow started talking about smoke house
restaurants and their seemingly disappearance. So he list all the ones
he knew in Texas,Oklahoma,Arkansas which you could count on two
fingers. If there was one near by I'd hang a few bundles in their
shed. You can buy smoke house meats but where are the smoke houses?

Jim

Alex Chaihorsky wrote:
> "Space Cowboy" > wrote in message
> oups.com...
> >A vendor on Ebay is listing some Puer in taels and not grams. One of
> > the conversion sites gave 1.2oz or 37.5g for a tael. So is tael a
> > Chinese, British or IM unit? If Chinese how common is it? Or is it
> > some trading unit which I've never seen. It seems odd it isn't a
> > multiple of oz or gram like a catty which is 500g.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Jim
> >
>
> Tael in Mainland China equals 10 quan = 37.5 g (that is why many puerh cakes
> weight 375 g = 10 tael)
> In Hong Kong I think its 37.8 g.
> When you order shark fin soup in a good restorant they always say in the
> menu how many taels of dry fin was used.
> Also they use tael in traditional pharmacies.
>
>
> Sasha.