Waaaa!! Expensive tea!!!

[Bubba_tea]

Wholey cow!!!! That's expensive!! Anyone know what it is? 1950 Hong Tai Chang Yuan - peaceful round duck or somethingorother I think.. Better yet? Anyone had it?

[disillusioned]

so for those of who are curious and not so well versed in any asian languages just how expensive is that?

[Bubba_tea]

I think a Jin (catty?) is 500gms, then that would be a paltry $6,187.64usd per 500gm or $12.37 per gm. Might be fun just to try it for one gaiwan full...

[Bubba_tea]

And here's the followup -

(do you like that authentic fancy tea tray (for tea that costs $5,617.79 a pound)?)





I think TIM is used to this stuff... but I don't think I could choke it down... I'm more a two buck chuck kind of guy

[Drax]

And here's the followup -

(do you like that authentic fancy tea tray (for tea that costs $5,617.79 a pound)?)

Maybe if the tray were made of platinum instead of that cheap looking steel (or aluminum, or whatever -- i.e. seemingly not worthy of that expensive of a tea!)

[gingkoseto]

The 48K is NT ¥, so may not be USD $6k. But of course still very expensive.

This hong tai chang is mainly an old famous brand for puerh. The only thing I know about puerh is, the seller can make whatever scary price they want

[gingkoseto]

I think a Jin (catty?) is 500gms, then that would be a paltry $6,187.64usd per 500gm or $12.37 per gm. Might be fun just to try it for one gaiwan full...

1 Tai Jin (Taiwan "pound") is 600g. 1USD=34 TWD

So it's about $2.4 per gram. That's not my neighborhood. But I bet there are a bunch of people in this forum having tea of this level

[taitea]

So... was it good?

[Bubba_tea]

Well, my friend said it was, but he was the guest!!! It was in HK, so I assumed HK qian... and not sure what NT is!

[gingkoseto]

Well, my friend said it was, but he was the guest!!! It was in HK, so I assumed HK qian... and not sure what NT is!

Ah! My mistake. I thought it was Taiwan. I didn't know in HK they still use the old "jin", which has 16 "liang" instead of 10 "liang"

[Bubba_tea]

Those measurements threw me. In Chinese medicine, we use 1 qian = 3.125 (iirc) grams, and 10 qian = 1 liang, and so then 1 liang = 31.25gm. I think current common people usage makes 1 liang = 50 grams and sounds like Taiwan 1 jin is 600 grams and in HK 1 jin is 500 grams - wow - how confusing!!! Don't even get me started on trying to keep Chinese family names straight (Father's older bother's son's daughter.... yikes! )

[disillusioned]

Bubba, was it worth the price?

[Bubba_tea]

Oh - that was a buddy's friend, not me unfortunately...

I'm sure he didn't appreciate it like I would...

[disillusioned]

Oh - that was a buddy's friend, not me unfortunately...

I'm sure he didn't appreciate it like I would...

That is a shame to say the least

[gingkoseto]

Those measurements threw me. In Chinese medicine, we use 1 qian = 3.125 (iirc) grams, and 10 qian = 1 liang, and so then 1 liang = 31.25gm. I think current common people usage makes 1 liang = 50 grams and sounds like Taiwan 1 jin is 600 grams and in HK 1 jin is 500 grams - wow - how confusing!!! Don't even get me started on trying to keep Chinese family names straight (Father's older bother's son's daughter.... yikes! )

Haha, I love metric system. The new "jin" system is ok, because it's almost parallel with metric system. In the tea picture, they have 48K for 1 "jin", and 3k for 1 "liang", so it seems their 1 "jin" has 16 "liang", which made me think it was Taiwan

Actually in Chinese medicine, they mostly use 1 "qian" =1/10 old "liang". 1 old "liang"=1/16*600g. So 1 "qian"=3.75g. In China even some Chinese medicine books say 1 qian=3.1g, and that's because they mixed up the old and new "jin" system.

The new "jin" system and old "jin" system use the same terms for units and could be very confusing. When I look at tea packs from Taiwan, with the old "jin" system plus exchange rate, it always takes me much longer time to figure out if the price is high or low.