Dear Tea friends,
I know a lot of people had mentioned the poor quality of chinese
restaurant tea before, and I was thinking that the fact that I like it
was attributable to the fact that I haven't had a lot of experience
with anything other than Lipton and others of that level.

Our local chinese restaurant uses bagged tea to make their tea and it
is good, so much that I usually have a pot and a half or two when I go
to the restaurant. Recently there was a chinese, Japanese, american
buffet restaurant opened up in our town and I went last night. I've
been there twice before and the food wasn't bad, but I guess I never
ordered tea before. What they brought me had no flavor at all and
only minimal color. the served it in cups with dark interiors so you
couldn't tell, but I poured it out on my plate to see. LOL

If you are going to a chinese restaurant how do you get good tea? do
you send back your free pot of "tea"? or offer to pay for good tea or
bring your own tea. the tea was hot enough to brew some Oolong in, so
I could have actually brewed some if I had thought to bring some tea
bags or loose tea.

Thanks, Kitty