Green Elephant Identification

[chicagopotter]

So I'm going thru all my tea to reorganize and label everything. Have this bing from Chicago Tea Garden: http://www.chicagoteagarden.com/buy/chi ... rh-beencha. Can anyone identify factory or any other info about it? Believe it was sourced from David Lee Hoffman who has it listed as Da Yi Xiang Xiao?

[bearsbearsbears]

Xiang Ming Tea Company is the factory (the text at the bottom says Yunnan Xishuangbanna Menghai Xiang Ming Tea Company Product). The text just under the elephant is what says "Da Yi Xiang". I presume "Xiao" stands for "xiao bing", id est, "small cake" on account of its size.

The stamp on the tong looks to read "jingmai mountain ancient tree tea", but it's hard to see.

[MarshalN]

Nowhere does "xiao" appear on the cake's wrapper. At that price it's quite expensive.

[MarshalN]

The stamp on the tong looks to read "jingmai mountain ancient tree tea", but it's hard to see.

That's correct. Your Chinese is getting better!!

[shah82]

I don't know...

If you use Babelcarp often enough, would it really be a surprise someone can read the label?

[bearsbearsbears]

I don't know...

If you use Babelcarp often enough, would it really be a surprise someone can read the label?

Babelcarp, a class at UCLA, Rosetta Stone, and 7 months wandering around China, Taiwan, and HK.

[shah82]

I was joking...

[chicagopotter]

Nowhere does "xiao" appear on the cake's wrapper. At that price it's quite expensive.

good thing I got it for free...

[bearsbearsbears]

I was joking...

I hardly speak it, but I can get by.

Your comment is a compliment to Babelcarp, which is an excellent resource for English speakers.

If only they had a Babelcarp for Chinese menus...and both available as a cell phone app.

[apache]

I was joking...

I hardly speak it, but I can get by.

Your comment is a compliment to Babelcarp, which is an excellent resource for English speakers.

If only they had a Babelcarp for Chinese menus...and both available as a cell phone app.

That may not be a good thing, as sometime there is a good reason why it's only in Chinese ... you would not want to know.

[shah82]

I was using it so much, I can recognize the characters for various locations and for the major brands. Not that I could read what's on a bing.

I did have some experience with Japanese, which was never very developed and has since rusted.

[MarshalN]

That may not be a good thing, as sometime there is a good reason why it's only in Chinese ... you would not want to know.

Most unusual Chinese dishes have fancy names that mean nothing in English, and sometimes they're actually rather benign. Husband and Wife Lung Slices, for example, is just pork in a hot sauce.

[bearsbearsbears]

Most unusual Chinese dishes have fancy names that mean nothing in English, and sometimes they're actually rather benign. Husband and Wife Lung Slices, for example, is just pork in a hot sauce.

According to Fuchsia Dunlop, graduate of Sichuan's Chengdu Cooking School, says in her cookbook Land of Plenty that husband and wife lung slices was "traditionally made with a mixture of lean beef and innards, (including ox hearts, tongue, and stomachs)" which actually doesn't sound half bad to this omnivore (and I mean omni!).

[shah82]

Tongue? Hit Hispanic fast food and you can get your fill. Not bad.

Stomach? Heh, I *feast* on intestines. Every New Years Day. They're just so nasty, you have to *trust* your cook like that's fugu or something.

Poor people's food is downright delicious, when it's just plebian, and not outright poverty.

[apache]

This is off the subject now, but let carry on about food.

It's really one man food another person poison, here is what Fuchsia Dunlop comment about the Chinese State Dinner Menu couple of weeks ago:

"Many Chinese people, especially those of President Hu's generation, would be less than delighted with raw salad and goats cheese and with the prospect of eating a whole slab of beef," she says.

In the past only "barbarians" ate raw food and dairy products, she says, while rare, pink oozing meat is an "atrocity" in terms of Chinese gastronomy.

Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-12255127