I have just discovered what is above Premium, King’s, and Competition grade teas:
Leader Grade 領袖級
The grade of tea fitting to grease the palms of the Communist government official and make life outstanding in China.
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What’s fast in China: Courier services. Sometimes, one can send a small package to another city, say, Shenzhen to Guangzhou, and receive it on the same day.
What’s slow: Banking. They can never figure out the Central Government policy what to do when. For some time there is retaliation with the US currency, so the banks are not allowed to freely make currency conversions. For example, I wire…
One of us Cantonese dubbed all things inexplicable, ridiculous, and behaviours beyond belief to be called simply as ‘China Specialty’. After all, ladies all dressed up with spiky heels are still spitting at a train platform, offering cigarettes as a matter of conducting business is still the norm, and making dangerously fake food (fake eggs! fake cooking oil!) are in the everyday life of the…
A distantly related relative decided that she will do her part and change the food scene in China by being a lone voice in growing clean, organic food using the natural resources of a magical mountain she found in the Yao Indigenous Self Governing Region. Being a city person originally, idealistic, and cynical regarding the rampant fake food all over China, she was ecstatic when she found this…
knife cut noodles
please don’t let this tradition die out! It was one of the absolute most delicious bowl of noodles ever had!
knife cut noodles the real, traditional way. This young man rolled out the dough to order, cuts the noodles, and my bowl of soupy noodles arrived in under 10 minutes. Who needs fast food when it can be this delicious, and this fast!