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Where is the best place to buy tea?
Tell me where is the best place to buy tea: at a tea factory, in shops, supermarkets or duty free? Someone please tell me the prices. Who drank tell me - is tea really better than ours or is it no different from ours?
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The tea is really much tastier than ours, the aroma and taste are more tender and pleasant - I appreciate pure black or green tea without flavorings.
We tasted tea at a factory, I don’t remember which one, but the guide advised not to buy a lot there, they say there are better places. Trusted ... did not lose))
Look in my album for a few photos of tea - such packages were taken mainly for gifts, they bought by weight for themselves, it is cheaper, but the quality seems to be even better.
They also sell silver and gold tea, the guide said that gold is very expensive, and if you are offered it somewhere, do not believe in its authenticity, because it is collected very little, and it is exported, but what is sold tourists - divorce.
But we bought silver - grass-grass, despite the fact that it costs many times more, but this is my subjective opinion, maybe someone likes the unsaturated, barely perceptible aroma and taste of fresh grass drenched in boiling water.
Tea was bought in a store from the Mlesna tea factory, this factory specializes in exporting tea to the UK, so the quality of raw materials is monitored well. There are several stores in the country, I don’t know the address, look on the internet.
We tasted tea at a factory, I don’t remember which one, but the guide advised not to buy a lot there, they say there are better places. Trusted ... did not lose))
Look in my album for a few photos of tea - such packages were taken mainly for gifts, they bought by weight for themselves, it is cheaper, but the quality seems to be even better.
They also sell silver and gold tea, the guide said that gold is very expensive, and if you are offered it somewhere, do not believe in its authenticity, because it is collected very little, and it is exported, but what is sold tourists - divorce.
But we bought silver - grass-grass, despite the fact that it costs many times more, but this is my subjective opinion, maybe someone likes the unsaturated, barely perceptible aroma and taste of fresh grass drenched in boiling water.
Tea was bought in a store from the Mlesna tea factory, this factory specializes in exporting tea to the UK, so the quality of raw materials is monitored well. There are several stores in the country, I don’t know the address, look on the internet.
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answered 12 years ago
Wooden boxes (for example, with a rose) can sometimes be found in local supermarkets, they even cost a couple of kopecks cheaper than at the factory. If you have an excursion, ask a guide, he will take you to such a store, where they will taste several types of tea for you, if you like it, buy it.
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answered 12 years ago
I took tea at the factory, in local shops and in the store at the hotel. The price is the lowest at the factory, it is not bad but often primitive packaging, and the price is the lowest. At the factory, you can take it for yourself, especially since tea tasting is carried out during the visit. by the way, if you don’t have time to buy something or forget it, in a dutik in Colombo the price of tea is almost the same as in a regular grocery store in Sri Lanka and there is a large selection. The best tea, though expensive, I bought at my hotel in Beruwala - but I simply did not find such tea in stores.
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answered 12 years ago
Tea is best bought in the Mlesna store in Colombo, the best price and quality cannot be compared with tea plantations.
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answered 12 years ago
I would not be as categorical as colleagues from robinzon-tour :)
When buying tea on ShL, you always and everywhere have a choice:
1) buy plantation (i.e. from one field) at the factory, while there is a choice of types of tea (I will miss the marketing classification like BOPF, BOP, OP, Flowery, etc. - this is a SEPARATE TOPIC / I am conducting it in the TIME for TEA section magazine Kitchen / Bathroom :).
Let's get by with the description - seeded small, medium-leaved, large-leaved ... Choose the one that is to your liking and more familiar to you.
As a rule, at GOOD MANUFACTURERS, teas are worthy (you NEED TO KNOW THE PLACE :), the taste is GENUINE, and in the highlands there are simply wonderful producers (and my tourists have shared my opinion for 10 years), but blends in the spirit of "English Breakfast" and so on. rarely seen there.
2) Spec. departments / stores of individual brands - both Dilmah and Mlesna, known to us (they are in Colombo, Kandy, in the vicinity of resorts, in large hotels like Hilton, etc., in the Duty Free zone), and interesting, but unknown to us (or almost UNKNOWN), e.g. Saint Clair - you can buy on the way to / from Nuwara Eliya at the panoramic platform overlooking the Saint Clair waterfall of the same name (I love this place, and the teas themselves are good!).
When buying tea on ShL, you always and everywhere have a choice:
1) buy plantation (i.e. from one field) at the factory, while there is a choice of types of tea (I will miss the marketing classification like BOPF, BOP, OP, Flowery, etc. - this is a SEPARATE TOPIC / I am conducting it in the TIME for TEA section magazine Kitchen / Bathroom :).
Let's get by with the description - seeded small, medium-leaved, large-leaved ... Choose the one that is to your liking and more familiar to you.
As a rule, at GOOD MANUFACTURERS, teas are worthy (you NEED TO KNOW THE PLACE :), the taste is GENUINE, and in the highlands there are simply wonderful producers (and my tourists have shared my opinion for 10 years), but blends in the spirit of "English Breakfast" and so on. rarely seen there.
2) Spec. departments / stores of individual brands - both Dilmah and Mlesna, known to us (they are in Colombo, Kandy, in the vicinity of resorts, in large hotels like Hilton, etc., in the Duty Free zone), and interesting, but unknown to us (or almost UNKNOWN), e.g. Saint Clair - you can buy on the way to / from Nuwara Eliya at the panoramic platform overlooking the Saint Clair waterfall of the same name (I love this place, and the teas themselves are good!).
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answered 12 years ago
We bought in Kandyskaya Mlesna. In principle, it’s good, but this is far from the only point for buying tea. However, there my group was given tea with cardamom. Divinely honest!
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answered 12 years ago
It is best to buy tea in trusted online stores, for example CHABEI.ru. On this site I take Chinese [url= http://chabei.ru/shop/CID_19.html]pu-erh[/url] and [url= http://chabei.ru/page/dahongpao.html]da hong pao[ /url]. By the way, 200 gr. Puer for only 510 rubles, with home delivery. There is also a huge selection of real teas on sale.
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answered 11 years ago
Don't buy tea from factories. Factories are made for tourists, tea is sold low grade. The price is higher than in state stores. Buy tea in centralized Mlesna stores. There tea is of high quality, the minimum price and a huge selection of tea. You can also buy Mlesna tea at the state-owned Food City stores,. These shops are in all settlements.
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answered 10 years ago
We bought tea in Tangalle. I liked it very much. Fragrant, delicate, with a pleasant aftertaste. It was called SIMONDOU, it seems ... (a store near the monument with the military) Pleasant service in the store, the possibility of tasting and adequate prices.
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answered 9 years ago
Being in Nuwara Eliya, I asked the locals the same question, wandered through the shops, unremarkable, the assortment is still the same supermarket, but returning to the hotel on my own, I could not resist and asked the old tuk-tuk if he knew a cool tea shop in the city and Naturally, he added that I had visited all the local "shops" (they are all in the center of the town) and they were not comme il faut. So the old tuk-tuk man offered to take me for a symbolic mocking fee of 300 tubriks to his friend's shop next to the golf courts. The body was in the evening there was nothing to do. In short, I agreed and they didn’t throw me!))
A very soulful shop without a name only with a signboard "Tea", no less soulful seller owner. I ended up in a small lair of a wise teaman, shelves studded with small jars with strange handwritten clumsy handwriting, for example, "Taippin local is not tasty", "Taipin is delicious from the dilma garden", "Silver fried" .... Many
A very soulful shop without a name only with a signboard "Tea", no less soulful seller owner. I ended up in a small lair of a wise teaman, shelves studded with small jars with strange handwritten clumsy handwriting, for example, "Taippin local is not tasty", "Taipin is delicious from the dilma garden", "Silver fried" .... Many
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answered 8 years ago