Loose Tea vs. Tea bags

My wife's family is in the heart of Kyushu tea country. Sadly, they haven't been able to send us any tea this year.

Yes, these postal difficulties are the cause of our tealessness. Apparently, homemade foodstuffs are not subject to these "anti-terroist" postal regulations. The hard part is just getting my wife's family to lie on the customs declaration forms.

Haha. Those unscrupulous tea companies have to keep up appearances. It is still Japan, after all.

--crymad

Crymad - Please enlighten me (and my Kumamoto-ken wife) where is Kyushu tea country?

Andy

THey shold make an anime/samurai battle bettween the two teas:

J.Tea: (draws sward) BANISH YOUR SELF FROM MY LAND! C.Tea: (says quetly) You talk big but you've got nothing. J.Tea: (raises sward into the air) I'LL AVENGE MY FATHER!!! C.Tea: (draws sward then bursts into flame) HA! Your skill is weak! You have nothing! (SNIP: they fight) J.Tea: (bleading and lying on the ground) Kill me you coward. C.Tea: (says casualy) I'd hate to kill you. You see... you're my brother!!! J.Tea: (close up of eye) No... No.. you're not. C.Tea: (close up on smiling mouth) I am. (close up on C.Tea sward) Didnt you notice the sward i hold.... J.Tea: (Clenches teeth and says quietly) you killed him...(louder) YOU KILLED HIM!.. (quiet) I will break you. (J.Tea grabs the ground with one hand. He waits then stands up and raises his sward) J.Tea: (close up on eye) I see your soul and you've got nothing.

If you go by production tonnage, the Kyushu's real tea country is down at the tip, in Kagoshima. We were just a bit northwest from your wife's home, in Saga.

--crymad

Thanks for the info - neither of us knew that!

Andy