Posted on May 1, 2010
I don’t know about the reading habits of other people but when I read magazine or newspaper articles online, one topic leads to another and yet another, and the ease of clicking on links means I often end up quite a ways away from my original search. And so it is with tea-related browsing and [...]
Posted on April 24, 2010
At the end of the previous post (Part 2), I concluded that for almost $50/lb, one could have a really top grade Jasmine leaf tea instead of the $48.95/lb Jasmine Pearls tea that turned out to be a poor choice, value-wise and flavor-wise. If it is Jasmine Pearls you’re after, seek out a better quality [...]
Posted on April 17, 2010
In Part 1 I suggested a simple formula to calculate tea prices by the pound, if pricing is not presented by that unit, so that there is one standard for comparison shopping. In that previous post I listed prices I found for Special Grade Gunpowder Green.
As I mentioned in the introduction, for the most part [...]
Posted on April 9, 2010
This post could also be titled “Sometimes You Don’t Need a Calculator & Sometimes the Price Is Too Good To Be True.” It’s an easy thing to recognize when you have come upon a delicious tasting tea. However, it’s often the case that recognizing good value is not as simple.
Several days I ago I was buying [...]
Posted on December 20, 2009
After drafting Part 1 of this post, I stopped at a local tea shop to gather more pricing information about TiKuanYin teas. (All the leaf teas in this shop are packed in tins or boxes.) As it happened, I was the only customer at the time and once I expressed an interest in TiKuanYin, the [...]