Sunday Gets Sunnier Wit' Miss Po Lan

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Sub-title of Post: Health Is Wealth (2)

Who's Miss Po Lan?
Where does she stay?
Is she beaut? Is she sexy? Is she wit' Desi?

To the third question, it's awe "YES"!

To the second, she is some where in SL:) -- you no w'ear?

Miss Po Lan belongs to Liu Pau:):)

GE2008 CHALLENGIA: IF you can Guess the detailed ANSWER to Q2, email Desi.

REWARD: and one fine day, when I long for Miss Pu-erh, I'll take thee, the first RIGHT ANSWERER, dare! -- To Savour Tuan Choo's PuErhTea!

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POH LAN

Liu Pao



TEA COLLECTOR Choo Nyet Chin reports that he's lucky to be able to obtain from another Tea Collector a substantial amount of the Lui Pau (or Luk Poh) of Poh Lan brand, produced in the late 1960s or '70s. As this class of tea is no more in production, Poh Lan is prized as a Vintage tea. Notwithstanding that it is now commanding a high premium market value, it is a collector-item and owners are reluctant to sell their collections.

As background, Choo informed that during the 1940s to the '60s, then Malaya had a thriving mining community, and the miners counted drinking Chinese teas of the Liu Pao variety as an important daily requisite to keep them up to performing the arduous task mining tin. The Liu Pao tea helped to "cool" their bodies often exposed to the pounding tropical sun, causing their bodies in fatigued and dehydrated states.

Generally, the miners took low quality Lui Po teas, but the bosses would savour the Po Lan, acknowledged as the "premium" of the lot. (Yes, a very capitalist and bourgeois trait even in those days)

The "Four-Orchids" Po Lan is now much sought after as the Company that produced it in the late 1960s and '70s is now defunct, and in Choo's proud posession is one whole carton of of this premium Po Lan.

"The Po Lan tea is still contained in the Original carton," Choo said as he proudly displayed the carton as shown in the photograph.

"This Po Lan has got all the goodness of a Vintage tea -- in taste, character and quality," Choo added as he treated us (this writer and photographer) to several infusions of the blue-chip Poh Lan.

Because of Poh Lan's premium grade, it is not surprising that there are lots of counterfeit "Four Orchids Poh Lan".

"I am reluctant to sell my Poh Lan in the retail market. However, I am prepared to share with tea enthusiasts and collectors some samples of my prized collection," Choo said with a smile, as this writer felt a great honour in tasting a rare tea, a vintage experience indeed.

In fact, Mei -- the cameragal who did the pictorials for Choo's Website -- suffered gastric pains for some weeks before, was tempted to savour the Poh Lan the kind host extended. Believe it or not! –- Mei reported to Choo the morning after that her gastric pains which she suffered for three weeks, had disappeared that very same night!