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Tea

This tea sign was spotted on my trip in Hang Zhou last summer. Mei Jia Wu is the place producing Long Jing Tea (Dragon Well tea), my favorite green tea. The very best quality Dragon Well is picked in early spring (late March/early April). The making of Dragon Well tea is a unique, labor-intensive process that demands great skill from the tea maker. About 30,000 hand-plucked young tea shoots are required to make just one pound of finished tea.

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Uploaded on March 3, 2008
Taken on June 8, 2007