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Best $3 I've spent on tea lately

I like to shop in Asian groceries where I live in New York, though I don't rely on them for most of the tea I drink. Occasionally something catches my eye, though, and I take a chance on it. Yesterday at an Indian grocery I bought Three Rivers Kashmiri Tea at $2.99 for 150g. I confess I hadn't known Kashmir produced tea. It was packaged in the kind of clear plastic jar that in the US seems to be used mainly for instant coffee but sported a pale pink top that would look out of place on a US supermarket shelf. The clear plastic showed that the tea was whole-leaf; that, I suppose, nerved me for the purchase.

It's a medium body tea with a manageable amount of astringency and bitterness. What's really unusual about it is an intense aroma of apple, probably with a tinge of fermentation as in hard cider. This aroma carries over into the cup as by far the most prominent element of the taste. This tea probably isn't for everyone but I'm delighted I bought it.

/Lew

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Lewis Perin
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Wow, do you remember which store, I'd like to pick some up!

-ben

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devlyn76

Lewis snipped-for-privacy@panix1.panix.com11/3/03 10: snipped-for-privacy@panix.com

Lew,

It occurs to me that this *might* not be from Kashmir at all. Didn't we once see discussion in which someone mentioned that some teas from odd places package at the location but import the tea from more conventional locales? I wonder.

Michael

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Michael Plant

It's in Flushing on the east side of Main St not far south of Franklin Ave (where East Lake offers dim sum/gong fu bliss.) I didn't make a note of the name of the shop but the sticky label on the jar says SUBZIMANDI.

/Lew

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Lewis Perin

I found this through Google search of white pages:

Subzimandi: Subzi Mandi Cash & Carry Inc

42 -53 Main Flushing, NY 11355 718-463-0175

Also learned subzimandi (lower case S) refers to vegetable market. I love the Internet! My head is full to overflowing with wonderful, interesting and probably useless trivia because of it. Also found listings for store named Subzimandi in Toronto.

Lew, what's the name of the tea? Sounds interesting enough to try to mail-order some. (I live in PA.) Martha

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McLemore

"Lewis Perin" wrote > It's in Flushing on the east side of Main St not far south of Franklin

I'll be in Manhattan Chinatown Wednesday morning. I'll check a couple of places and let folks know if I find it there.

Warren

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Warren C. Liebold

I agree with Michael. In south Asia you will find many product name in one region but come from another. Example-

ROOSOGOLLA (Famous sweet made from milk,sugar,ghee(One kind of aromatic cooking oil from milk) Some provinces are very famous for ROSSOGOLLA such as Barisal or Tangail. So we see Barisal's rossogolla in Dhaka frequently. Dhaka is the capital city and the rossogolla practically made in Dhaka. they just use the reputated name of Barisal province.

As far as I know Kasmir region doesn't produce tea(They might but I don't know so far). Kasmir is always a exotic name for wool, tourism. "Three Rivers kasmiri Tea" sounds very exotic name too. I think it might be just another marketing name. But sounds very exotic-$2.99(150 gm) ummm. It is worth it to give a try.

Ripon (From Bangladesh)

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Ripon

Three Rivers Kashmiri Tea.

/Lew

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Lewis Perin

If you're looking for South Asian stuff in Manhattan, Chinatown isn't where you want to be. Try the area around 28th and Lexington that some call Curry Hill.

/Lew

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Lewis Perin

I agree. My first thought was Kalustyan (sp?) and if I'm in that neighborhood I'll try them, but I am specifically going to a SE Asian (Thia, Vietnamese, Laotian, Sri Lankan) market in the morning since I have a meeting near city hall. They may not have it but it's worth a shot.

Warren

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Warren C. Liebold

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