A Tale of Two Jasmines

Actually, the Foojoy is just one of a number of outfits that are copying the original container.

The original yellow box tea will say "China national tea and native produce import and export corporation" on it. It's not particularly wonderful tea, but it's a known quantity. Lots of Chinatown shops will carry it.

China being what it is, there are now hundreds of companies copying the original packaging.

--scott

I checked and my tins say nothing of FJ on them. Two do say "China national tea and native produce import and export corporation" as Scott mentioned, and two of the others say "Sunflower Brand" but they are identical. It is a green tea base. It is certainly low quality but it does have petals in it and the flavor is unique and interesting when brewed in a specific way, which is either off boil water and a

- Dominic

It isnt obvious but these two characters stand for FooJoy ?? which were taken from the packaging and what does the character ? for SunFlower look like. I chased my tail yesterday.

Jim

...FooJoy and Sunflower missing from my Rosetta Stone...

Now I get it. ? is inscribed inside the white O in FooJOY surrounded by the four characters ???? when a seal or just the word FooJOY with inscribed character as a logo which is mostly the case.

Jim

...me talkin to me...

I preffer to use jasmine from my own garden. The taste of the green tea with jasmine is wonderful!