CaryTown Teas features leaves picked by monkeys
Posted on | August 22, 2007 | 2 Comments
A tea enthusiast will tell you the best tea is picked by monkeys. Well, it’s hard to verify that it was actually picked by monkeys, but Ti Kuan Yen tea of the oolong family is good. It’ll run you $42 a bag at CaryTown Teas.
Style Weekly featured CaryTown Teas last week with a brief history of the most expensive variety. The reason it’s called “monkey picked” is because tea leaves are gathered from the highest spots on the tree, where only a monkey could climb.
And I thought they spread out a bunch of regular tea leaves, and used monkeys to randomly pick which ones went in the bag.
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August 22nd, 2007 @ 10:24 am
Why stop with monkeys in agriculture? If you could train them in construction, they could fill your pothole.
August 22nd, 2007 @ 12:39 pm
Monkeys aside, Carytown Teas is a great little shop and their website is quite extensive as well. I like the intimate “boutique” atmosphere. They have these huge tins of tea and experiencing the full aroma of the tea leaves from these huge tins allows you to sense the delicate fragrance you miss when trying to figure it out through a plastic bag or packaging. A visit there is a very pleasant way to spend a few moments or fritter away a rainy afternoon.