spiral-shaped green tea

Lewis Perin wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@panix2.panix.com:

Thanks much Lew. I've been going to the Micro-Chinatown on Avenue U east of Coney Island Avenue, and mostly their teas are disappointing. But off- topic or no, I'm always on the lookout for a more convenient place to get Chinese herbs than the original Chinatown or Flushing...

Ozzy

Shen wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@m62g2000hsb.googlegroups.com:

Both those neighborhoods are much changed (it's generally safe to say that about nearly any neighborhod, as long as the persons have been absent more than a decade or so. :) ). I grew up in Midwood myself in the '50s. The latest area of development is Coney Island -- they're yuppifying fast and furiously, with the independent amusement sleeze that has delighted so many children for greater than a century slated to be one with Babylan and Troy ASAP...

Ozzy