My life with Mrs. Su is always spontaneous and just north of wacky. Although a very accomplished tea grower and producer as well as expert in Charcoal Roasting, she has vegetable envy. Anytime anyone else in the village grows a bigger/prettier/more delicious, cabbage/squash/peas/bok choy, she gets super obsessed. So tonight, after exchanging news I already know (very little Tung Ting due to drought) she drags me out to check out, in the dark with a flash light, her neighbor’s kabocha patch, to compare the size of their leaves and pumpkins against hers. They are bigger than hers- ‘must be from fertilizers and pesticides!’. Whereas she refuses both, and carefully wraps each flower and squash. Her teas are exceptional, and her vegetables delicious- but those are just two small reasons why we love Mrs. Su.
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