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Thanks, Lew. This is a Taiwan vendor tin with a sticky label describing the tea from the same tin used with other teas. It is these two characters with the character for tea. The leading edge for Qing Clear is a spine with three connected tic marks. In this case it is three disjointed marks. I assume the second character is the Qing for green. Give me a dictionary with radical and stroke indexes and finding that leading character of three tics should be a snap. I couldn't find it in my dictionaries or Zhongwen. However if I assume a spine and two tic marks then that leading edge is the same for the word ICE. So maybe this is a colloquial for Ice Green which would fit Pouchong because of the cold mountains of the North from which it comes. I spent enough time yesterday visiting sites with the PinYin Pouchong and the Chinese characters for Baozhong nearby to verify they are the same. Until Kuri jumps in it'll remain a mystery. I noticed the character for 'green' tea is not the same green used here.

Jim

PS If nothing else it was a chance to practice my calligraphy. Putting that caster on the right leg of the table was a bitch. It took a lot of erasing. Those three tic marks could have been better.

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The second Xue Feng just recently

I haven't seen it for sale either since I bought it Jim...I also keep looking at the store I got it from originally (and others).

Melinda

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Melinda

Hi Melinda,

Is it one of the Butterfly TKY found here? If I had a picture it would help.

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Thanks, Jim

Mel>

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Space Cowboy

Actually yeah, it's the FL111, Top Grade Ti Kuan Yin, on that page. I'll see if I can get a pic of my tin later and post a link.

Melinda

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Melinda

When you get the chance briefly described the tin color, size, English, engravings etc. There are many TKY tins on the local shelves. It would be easy to overlook.

Thanks, Jim

Mel> > Hi Melinda,

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Space Cowboy

The character qing (清) means clear. The "san dian shui" radical beside of it means water, not frozen. When someone writes Chinese calligraphy, it's sometimes easy to get the "san dian shui" (三点水...3 dots) and the "liang dian shui" (两点水...two dots) confused; the latter meaning cold, cool, or frozen. The character for ice 冰 has "liang dian shui" while this 清 has "san dian shui". What you have in your 凊 in fact does mean cold, but that makes little sense to have on a tea box. Basically, it comes down to a problem of fonts, I guess.

凊 does not mean "ice green", Only cold. The radical will change the meaning of the whole character. Are you sure it wasn't 清. Why would anybody want to describe their tea as being frozen?

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Mydnight

Not until you can't lift its head, I suppose.

Thanks. And I'll resist the urge to lecture you on what a radical is.

/Lew

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Lewis Perin

It says Product of China Tuhsu Fujian tea Imp. & Exp. Corp. and it does say Art. No. FL111 on the can so...I bet that's the right stuff. There are pics uploaded to my Yahoo album here though:

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Melinda

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Melinda

Thanks, Melinda. I haven't seen that one because I would have bought it for the art work alone. I'll keep an eye out though on the next trip.

Jim

Mel> It says Product of China Tuhsu Fujian tea Imp. & Exp. Corp. and it does say

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Space Cowboy

Hi stePH,

I picked this up yesterday...it's not as good to me as some of the A Li Shan's I've gotten from Hou De, but it's OK. I did NOT like that it came in a clear glass jar, let's the light in and is bad for tea. But I'm going to spend some time with it, if you're interested in further comments later from me I'll oblige. It is a greener TGY than I've had before, and that's kind of a relief...I used to like the really roasted ones and now I've gotten away from those more. I can't compare it to another green TGY though, so you'd have the advantage there of having something similar with which to compare it.

While I was there I picked up a cardboard canister of pouchong, it's a broken leaf and so far has proved to be very astringent in a way I haven't had to deal with in a long time in an oolong but I have a feeling it's because it IS broken and I bet I steeped it too long. Again, I'll have to experiment more. I just wanted some because it's a type of oolong I haven't had before. Can anyone recommend a fairly inexpensive basic pouchong that might be available to me? Whole leaf preferred.

Melinda

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Melinda

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Are you in the area, or is there some other Ranch 99 Market where you are?

stePH

-- in cup: "Chelton" Ceylon black tea

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stePH

I'm in the general area, south actually. But I was headed up to North Seattle for somehting else and I'd never heard of Ranch 99 and I am ALWAYS on the lookout for new cool grocery stores etc. (I really like Uwajimaya.) Ranch 99 is the first "Asian" store I've been in that uses frequent shopper cards...something new.

Melinda

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