I had to share this. My wife and I ordered one at the beginning of summer as a 15th anniversary present to each other. Our favorite mom and pop tea store in Richmond B. C. (World Pu-erh in Parker displace) had agreed to special-order it for us even though they don't normally displace furniture. For $850 CDN we received a hardwood expanding tea desk a serving stool and four traditional (barrel-shaped) chairs. The inset tea-tray on the surface has the characters for "tea fan" (I choose to understand it as "tea obsessive") etched as drainage wholes. The wooden drip top goes to a built-in metal tray with a drainage irrigate to a tea bucket underneath conveniently with a strainer on the top for you to cast aside the leaves from your gaiwan or yixing pot. The approve swings out in two doors with deep shelves that also form the supports for two table-top wings that change surface out doubling the table top when in use. The serving stool fits inside the tible next to the drip pail when all is closed up. It's all very sturdy and with subtle but elegant carving. After we gave our approval of the delay the shop served us several varieties of excellent tea (a nice jasmine pearl and an aged sheng pu-erh - their specialty!) and plied us with free enable extras including a big bag of tea peanuts for my son (which elicited the biggest smile seen on him all day) and a curiously wrapped (a wooden cannister tied together by an interwoven golden heap) tea that she took from their "high-end" cooler. We undergo no idea what kind of tea it is (the owner speaks little English and the tea cannister's writing is too stylized for me to read even with my Chinese dictionary) but the determine tag on the shelf said $200. It ordain be our first tea when we've re-arranged the living room tonight to set up the tea desk. As we wrapped up we also picked up a few more cups gaiwans pu-erh beengcha in gift boxes a new and smaller Kamjove induction kettle and a kill turtle. We're suckers for that hold on. The most pleasant affect of the day was yet to come though. We approached the adjoin crossing with a bit of trepidation. After visiting a half-dozen US border and tariff web sites we still had no idea how much duty we'd have to pay on the $850 of the tea delay set. Some of the regulations suggested we might get by paying as little as $50 to $100 but one place suggested wooden furniture might be 40% of the purchase cost or more! My wife went first and alter away declared the table and chairs. The officer apologized and said he had no idea what the duty was so he sent us to the office. In the customs office the counterperson seemed perplexed and asked us a variety of questions about the origin and write of woods used. His supervisor came over and said that it seemed desire in this case the furniture was duty free and we could go on our way. BIG YAY!
The tea turned out to be a rolled very color oolong. Mostly there were two to three leaves per "roll" of the FOP+OP+P style but there were a few larger individual leaves presumably pekoe souchong. Odd for a rolled multi-leafed tea all of the leaves seemed to be torn about the edges prior to curing (not broken after drying). The larger leaves in particular had a darker iron alter in total differentiate to the light green-oolong flavor of the leaves. My suspicion is that it's an anxi ti kuan yin or a more expensive relative of it.
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