April 09, 2004

Monkey Picked Tea. Details * Rare Wild Chinese Tea * Picked by trained monkeys * No, really * Delicate, light flavour * Net Wt. 25g
posted by dng 20 years ago
  • Another food product that exploits unpaid animal labor. In this case, the animals in question require no special training.
  • When I lived in Toronto I occasionally bought a very delicate and expensive monkey-picked Ti Kuan Yin from the Ten Ren tea shop.
  • Delicate, light flavour-- and why not, with only 1/3 teaspoonful tea per cup. Idea for an even more "delicate" version --> simply swing a teabag a dwq inches above the water, never letting tea contact surface. Et voila!
  • No no no...that's not right. There's a tea called Monkey Pick, but monkeys don't pick tea! No. I'm almost sure. It's a myth, I was told by a few of the teahouse owners I know. But there are monkeys around some of the mountains where these tea bushes are grown, I hear. Raoul: Ten Ren is from Taiwan, and Taiwanese teas tend to be more delicate in flavour compared to China teas. I prefer them myself. Have you seen their Lu Yu teapots? Gorgeous, some of them at least. Hmm...the site looks like it hasn't been updated in a while. Some of the tea are displayed in their old packaging and I can't find their newer tea-sets.
  • Okay. But the weasel coffee can't be real. No one drinks the product of filtered weasel vomit. Really.
  • Sorry about "dwq" instead of few-- the collie bumped my elbow.
  • Is this anything like cat-crap coffee beans?