Posted on August 18, 2010
The summer months probably mean iced tea to most people, but my thoughts have centered on Jasmine tea in recent weeks.
Except for restaurant grade and some standards, our Jasmine inventory is at its lowest during June and July as we await the arrival of freshly made Jasmine, which makes its appearance only in July. So [...]
Posted on August 8, 2010
This series began with restaurant grades of Jasmine tea and the previous post ended with a Chun Feng grade, the second highest in a well-established and reliably consistent system. I pointed out that it is not too difficult to evaluate quality if various grades were placed side by side; it’s just that few consumers, or [...]
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 March 20, 2010
This is a follow-up to an earlier post about teas to accompany a dim sum meal. Here is a tea menu from a dim sum restaurant in (of course) San Francisco. I say this because growing up in the Bay Area, I remember the earliest place to go for authentic dim sum was Yank Sing, [...]