only a little tea today, some new vithanakande that was sent to me.
tonight I had the pleasure to take a cooking class on curries tought by Raghavan Iyer. I bought his new cook book, 660 Curries a few days ago only to find out he was coming to my store. My God. I had the best basmati rice ever. EVER. In the world. It litteraly melted in my mouth. I didn't know rice could be so good.
And for desert, some sort of pepper, pineapple, and golden raisin sauce over ice cream. I'm sold on Indian food.
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Regarding Lapsang, I used to really like it. Then I got sold on Yunnan with its natural, non smoked smokeiness and now I just can't drink Lapsang. What one should keep in mind, though, is that most Lapsangs are scented, not really smoked. Genuine Lapsang is said to have a much milder taste.
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Psh we can fix that need of bookmarks for shincha for ya.auggy wrote:Yeah, I've already eyed some of the shinchas at o-cha.Pentox wrote:Psh, next year? You can still ride the shincha train TONIGHT!auggy wrote:Might have to get into the shincha craze next year.
So yeah, my computer is still a brick with a pretty colored screen, I'm borrowing a gianormous laptop from hubby that he's repairing for my dad, the copier at my workplace still has a mind of its own, but hey, I've got TEA!
Ojno what happened to your computer?But I'm safe from a shincha run because all of my bookmarks are on my laptop. The one good thing about that?
As for what exactly happened w/ the computer, the video card went out. And the video card is attached to the motherboard so Dell is supposed to replace both of them hopefully tomorrow. Of course, earlier it was "hopefully today" but that didn't happen. *pout* Previously, I had been able to turn my laptop on and, even though nothing other than pretty stripes would show up on the screen, I could remotely access it and everything would be fine. But now it's not letting me connect remotely or even access my shared drives. But when the motherboard is replaced, hopefully that will make it happy.
Of course, I realize with all this that I am WAY too addicted to my computer. WAAAAAAAAY too addicted.
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EEk yeah that sounds like some pretty gnarly computer death there. And there's no such thing as being way too addicted >.> REally there isn't.
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You know, the laptop screen is actually quite pretty. If you ignore the whole "supposed to show you what is going on on the computer" thing.Pentox wrote:EEk yeah that sounds like some pretty gnarly computer death there. And there's no such thing as being way too addicted >.> REally there isn't.
It's amazing how bored I was last night with access to a computer that only had a web browser on it. I had to go and read a paper book.
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Ahhhh, slow boat!!! Hmmm, not a good thing where shincha is concerned. It is almost time to move on to Ichibancha, still first flush, but handled and processed differently than Shincha.Pentox wrote:Lupicia doesn't have their Shincha over here yet. It's avail in Japan, but I found out a wile ago they ship stuff kinda slowly over here. *tear*Chip wrote:WHAT???? No Lupicia????
BTW, this is post #83, a TeaDay record...wooohooo...
This is a shortcoming that they will need to overcome. I wonder why a Japanese vendor as big as they are are losing the competitive edge in this regard?
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I think that's actually one of the reasons why they aren't marketing much shincha over here. If you take a look at the Japanese page they have quite a few shinchas over there, yet their sku list over here only has 2. My guess is that they don't think that over here there's enough recognition of the time dependency on shincha to warrant treating it differently. They probably figure Americans don't know any different so they'll just ship it with the rest of the tea.Chip wrote:Ahhhh, slow boat!!! Hmmm, not a good thing where shincha is concerned. It is almost time to move on to Ichibancha, still first flush, but handled and processed differently than Shincha.Pentox wrote:Lupicia doesn't have their Shincha over here yet. It's avail in Japan, but I found out a wile ago they ship stuff kinda slowly over here. *tear*Chip wrote:WHAT???? No Lupicia????
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This is a shortcoming that they will need to overcome. I wonder why a Japanese vendor as big as they are are losing the competitive edge in this regard?
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Very good points...and they obviously have not been reading TeaChat!Pentox wrote: I think that's actually one of the reasons why they aren't marketing much shincha over here. If you take a look at the Japanese page they have quite a few shinchas over there, yet their sku list over here only has 2. My guess is that they don't think that over here there's enough recognition of the time dependency on shincha to warrant treating it differently. They probably figure Americans don't know any different so they'll just ship it with the rest of the tea.
I am sure that TeaChat is responsible for a substantial increase in the demand for Shincha stateside. Not just regular posters either. The readership of TC is pretty significant...a lot of lurkers reading what we write and never joining. But I know sales have to be way up for Shincha despite a weak dollar.
They missed the flight and are taking the slow boat instead.
Yeah, if I wern't up to my ears in shincha that I've already gotten shipped over, I would probably talk to them about getting some shipped over. Maybe for next years I will. But slow boating will leave some shincha for a bit later in the year. I remember the Sayama Shincha 2007 being amazing still in december.Chip wrote: Very good points...and they obviously have not been reading TeaChat!
I am sure that TeaChat is responsible for a substantial increase in the demand for Shincha stateside. Not just regular posters either. The readership of TC is pretty significant...a lot of lurkers reading what we write and never joining. But I know sales have to be way up for Shincha despite a weak dollar.
They missed the flight and are taking the slow boat instead.