Twinings Gunpowder

[roninfight]

Hello,

Pretty specific question, but have you ever seen the loose Gunpowder tea from Twinings in Hong Kong?



I have looked at International and Wellcome in Sheung Wan, Three Sixty in Elements and City Super in Causeway Bay with no success.

Thank you!

[rakedavids]

there are so many Chinese tea shops around HK selling tea leaves and powder by the grams.
check them out.

[iliketurtles]

Rakedavids, care to provide any recommendations to the OP (and to me, actually)?

[wtbhotia]

give Jayinhongkong a shout, he loves his tea

[roninfight]

there are so many Chinese tea shops around HK selling tea leaves and powder by the grams.
check them out.

I know about those but I have concerns regarding them.
Either you get cheap tea in some local run-down shop - which is probably quite unsafe in the amount a pesticide it contains - or you target the higher end bio/organic/luxury tea sold by reputable shops and it costs you an arm.

I was looking for the Twinings Gunpowder since it has been thoroughly tested and deemed healthy, not containing to much pesticide, while remaining reasonably priced.

[rakedavids]

I am sorry a tea-loving friend of mine told me nearest thing to gunpowder available in hk is called jasmine pearls. gunpowder is very hard to come across.
there are at least 3-4 in the cwb area....

[Claire ex-ax]

Why not just by it from iHerb.com? If you go with Global Priority Mail, it would cost HK$200 for 4 canisters (including shipping), for example. That's HK$50 a can, about the same price as the Twinings UK website.

[HowardCoombs]

Why not just by it from iHerb.com?

because it just seems so wrong to buy Chinese tea from USA.
Similar to buying Sharwoods stuff in HKG - seems sacrilegious

[iliketurtles]

Sod that Howard! I don't have to put up with grumpy shopkeepers this way!!

Cheers Claire - I went a bit overboard and spent about 80 USD on tea. That should see me thru about a week and a half!!