I caught myself a good one. This is a sampler of a tea so expensive there's basically no hope of me ever buying it as a regular drinking tea. This two-serving sampler cost me the equivalent of US$10 *on special*. (Ordinarily it would be $25). A half-pound of it (enough to last me maybe two months) would take up a full month's mad money.

So this is a special experience.

This is a genuine 金骏眉 (Jīn Jùnméi or "Fancy Golden Eyebrow", loosely translated). Real Jin Junmei is hand-picked from the first buds of the season and is horrifically expensive as a result. This batch was picked and processed on 2024-03-01, so not only is it a genuine Jin Junmei (a lot of stuff sold as Jin Junmei, as with everything in China, is fake), it's a very fresh genuine Jin Junmei!

The alt text explains the pictures and the sensations that went along with getting them.

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