Michael Plant > writes:

> snippage much
>
> > A 2004 could well be most excellent, and many I'm drinking now are. Mengku
> > is, I believe, new, but well enough respected, having roots in Meng Hai --
> > am I wrong here, Mike? -- and further, "affordable" is what any young cake
> > should be, even those of good breeding.
>
> Let me self-correct he Wu Chi Dao is the factory, as everyone probably
> knew but me, residing as it were in Mengku township. Good old Babelcarp:
>
> <http://www.panix.com/~perin/babelcarp2.cgi?phrase=Wu+Chi+Dao>

Thanks for the plug. I might as well take this opportunity to say the
evidence for Wu Chi Dao being a factory rather than a brand is just
the fact that Yunnan Sourcing, normally reliable, says so.

The evidence against it being a factory is that Googling for "Wu Chi
Dao Tea Factory" in Chinese yields no results. Googling for Wu Chi
Dao by itself in Chinese is kind of useless because the historic
meaning of the phrase is so prolific on the Web.

Puzzlingly, the picture of the cake on the eBay page doesn't have the
characters for Tea Factory. Maybe someone with more knowledge of the
subject, or just more Chinese, than I can help here.

/Lew
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