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- raynar, on 10/12/2007, -2/+114If I'm paying $14,000 for tea, it better be blowing me.
- beelz, on 10/12/2007, -4/+69Something's worth as much as someone’s willing to pay for it.
- pizzatsf, on 10/12/2007, -6/+69I'd like to sell you some green tea...
- sideshowRAHEEM, on 10/12/2007, -27/+86"Would You Pay 14,000 Dollars for A Handful of Green Tea?"
-Sure if its the kind of "green tea" I can smoke. - Supernova36, on 10/12/2007, -1/+38I'm not going to read the story just to make sure not to shatter my preconceptions of it being expensive because the fields where it grows are guarded by dragons that must be slain by samurai before it can be sold.
- anagoge, on 10/12/2007, -1/+30No.
- pwnage24, on 10/12/2007, -1/+23@kallstar
u realize 200grams is less than a kilogram and $14,000 is more than $800.... - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+23I bet when he reads that comment he's going to want to be your best friend!
Seriously, do you get off knowing that he might read your comment? Even with a prepared high threshold for sad lonely comments, I'm still occasionally creeped out by nerdiness when reading through these threads. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+21Don't be koks. Let Supernova dream.
Don't listen to them, SN. I rtfa and there WERE both dragons and chinese samurai involved. - goldrunt, on 10/12/2007, -2/+21Samurai were in Japan.
- gaoshan, on 10/12/2007, -6/+23Those Chinese samurai are really awesome warriors, aren't they? You are probably one of those folks who, when/if you think of China, you think of kimonos, sushi, geisha girls, sumo wrestling and movies like Lost in Translation. Am I right? You know, all those Chinese things.
- bobbyi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16"A handful of weed for $14,000? Where the ***** do you live?"
Maybe he just has very very very large hands. - harvinator24, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16It cost so much because of the rampant piracy
- fivestarsoul, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17Currency
"Everything is worth what it's purchaser will pay for it." - Publilius Syrus
I learned that from playing Civilization IV too many times. - D3koy, on 10/12/2007, -3/+17Making a list of things cheaper than tea:
A car
A dozen nice computers
A car
A Russian mail order bride
A car...
Oh, I could really use a car... - Doorfingers, on 10/12/2007, -3/+16In Japan and most of Asia, dragons are considered mild-mannered, peaceful creatures. You must be thinking of the western version of the dragon.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon#In_East_Asia - spookyttws, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14The article talks very little about the man or his reasons. I've had Dragonwell tea, apparently not the really good stuff though. Sells for "$15.45 per 4 oz. pkg" at Peet's.
- lostmongoose, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13Not for all the tea in China.
- gaoshan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12Every summer I live in the area of the actual Dragon Well (Longjing), in the mountains on the edge of Hangzhou (I've even drunk from the well itself) and it is a beautiful region. The tea itself is famous because back in the early Qing Dynasty Emperor Kangxi (late 1600's - early 1700's) liked tea from that area so much he named it the official imperial tea.
It comes in 6 or 7 grades, is hand picked and hand roasted. Additionally, the part of the season in which it was picked is quite important. The best grade is MUCH better than the worst grade and costs much more as well. I keep a steady supply on hand and drink alot of it (my wife's uncle worked in the ministry for agriculture in Hangzhou and he always hooks us up with plenty of the good stuff). If you go into the villages in the area, there are several and they all have tea houses and vendors... the "tea peasants" are quite wealthy there, you can get a good deal on buying it at reasonable prices. - Supernova36, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11@gaoshan
Thats right, I certainly wasn't making a joke there. No sire.
Shall I cite my sources next time too? - gregmo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Would you pay 100,000+ for a bottle of wine?
http://www.forbes.com/2003/11/19/cx_np_1119feat.html - Aeaus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9That's damn pricy, hell, the most expensive green tea before this cost about 40000$ a Kilo, this's 70000$ a Kilo, probably better off buying some cocaine.
- BuckFush, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Thats a lot of money just to piss away.
- Cymrubeats, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7i get my teabags from poundland.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7I get my teabags from trannies.
- marinist, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5It's interesting how different cultures put values on things.
I never thought tea could command that price, but people here spend mad money on wine.
Another thing I've noticed--some Chinese will spend $$$ on cognac.
I noticed that when I shop at a local Chinese grocery for seafood (live crab and lobster for cheap!)
But they have these bottles of cognac for $2000, $3000, and $4000...?
That's a new one for me. - AlanCayce, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6No
- Toasterstrudull, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Wait... on the site it said a kilo sells for costs 800 bucks... why did he pay 14000 for a fifth of a kilo?
"Now, one kilogram of high grade Dragonwell tea costs 6,000 Yuans or 800 US dollars." - VaporBro, on 10/26/2007, -1/+5Laugh at Larry?
- alexonix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4"...are usually depicted as the guardians of pearls." from wikipedia
So... if pearls why not tea too? - WaterDragon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4That's $70/gram.
(and only slightly more than a delivered gram of c--e in NYC).
Doesn't seem like so much, if you've ever had any decent Dragon Well Tea.
I've bought a fairly decent grade, that costs about $100/oz, in Chinatown, NYC.
(Tea, not C---!)
Well, I only bought 1/4 oz... but it is really excellent.
If you buy really good tea, better make sure you brew it with really good water, or it is a waste. (Does anyone here even understand about 'living that well'?)
This kind of tea will keep your dragon well!
OTOH, I've had 'organic green sprouting tea', that was just as good, but cost waaaay less.
Anyhow, I usually prefer the 'curled dragon silver tip' variety (once gotten under the name 'pu'an lung yin hao'), or the white flowering pekoe tea. - Doorfingers, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Really? I get my teabags from Wal-Mart.
- ubuwalker31, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I dunno, but if you wanna try some pretty good green tea, check out the First Flush Korean Wild Green Tea, which is $100 for 3oz. It is really good. http://franchia.sureshopping.com/display.asp?sku=22&rP=searching,cat@Teas,cR@default
- gib0r, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3People have paid more for less. look into pu'er tea.
- WaterDragon, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6...Except that cocaine 'pisses away' your Chi, and DragonWell tea supports it.
- vonskippy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3A "fool and his money ...", unless of course you're rich, in which case, what does it matter.
- Ricapar, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6I can get you that much cheaper.
- Avatar, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Hey, can I interest you in some Magic Beans......?
- WaterDragon, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3That's still less than $10/pound! About right for good fresh tuna, and still way below the (uptown) retail price in, say, NYC.
But you'd better freeze it right away, unless you are having a HUGE sashimi party! - BugMeNot2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Those things you listed cannot be blended.
Tea can. - WaterDragon, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5Wouldn't you really like a nice Blendtec Blender?
(Don't say it!) - neffy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2What does this have to do with the price of tea in China?
Oh wait... - Humzaseo, on 11/07/2008, -0/+1green tea is disearved for this that spent more on it Specially for the pigmentation disorder as http://bodyhealthsoul.com/?/main/comments/green_te ... for vitiligo and other
- PixieLittle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Did anyone else notice that the girl in the second picture has three legs?
- SEmmert, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The thing is, I went to China and drank the tea (in the very city this story takes place, actually!), and it tasted like boiling water they had let a single tea leaf sit in for about two seconds. So basically it was like drinking boiling water, only a little worse. If I'm going to be paying $14,000 for tea, it had better be British!
- kenvsryu, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4Hmm, I guess losing weight and expensive green tea might be mutually exclusive.
- monkeyrun, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2nvm
- WaterDragon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1oooh ... pu er tea is just soooo RED!
Tasty stuff too. - screensnot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Check your math waterdragon. You may have lost control of a decimal point.
- rcollamore, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5did it come out of the Dalai Lama's ass?
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