Indian tea

[Ash2Dust]

Hey Guys,

am looking for some places that sell authentic Indian Darjeeling tea...

any ideas?

Don't want tea bags, only loose tea...

Thanks!

[jimbo]

Chungking mansions in TST.

[itssammy]

And.. any idea if we get authentic coffee powder(south indian) in HK ?? ... not the nescafe... cudnt find it in Chungking..

[HKFella]

Hey Guys,

am looking for some places that sell authentic Indian Darjeeling tea...

any ideas?

Don't want tea bags, only loose tea...

Thanks!

Two years back I'd seen plenty of Lipton Green Label Darjeeling from India at Indian Provision Stores (or similar name) at the edge of Wanchai near Canal Road. From Wanchai Rd head south on Morrison Hill Rd, turn left at South Pacific Hotel, turn right on Bowrington Rd and the shop should be on your left a few yards down. On a lucky day you may even find packets of Golden or Lopchu Orange Pekoe there. Maybe some Brooke Bond too.

Aforementioned Lipton's also seen at Indian/Nepalese grocery stores at Temple St in Kln and in Wanchai a Pakistani-run store - I think it's Ali Baba - on Cross Lane (parallel to Wanchai Rd quite near Pricerite) where it meets Wood Road. I think they carry other Indian Darjeeling brands too.

In TST there are the usual suspects - the small but busy supermarket on the gr fl of CKM and Kiran's in Mirador - you just might find some Darj in there.

[HKFella]

And.. any idea if we get authentic coffee powder(south indian) in HK ?? ... not the nescafe... cudnt find it in Chungking..

I handcarried my ground southie coffee back from business trips to southern towns. Try the non-CKM places mentioned above. Or PM shanx999, the best person I can think of who might know. Then there's KK who trawls these threads - on occasion he can know a weird thing or two!

[kombuchakid]

there's KK who trawls these threads - on occasion he can know a weird thing or two!

A little bird told me you were fishing in these parrts, so here I am.
I don´t usually condone premature grinding but for south indian coffee, which I assume is a coffee chicory mix there would be no other way.
Of course one could just add chicory to regular coffee.
Any idea what chicory is called in Cantonese?

[Claire ex-ax]

gūk geuih

But that could be endive...

[kombuchakid]

gūk geuih

But that could be endive...

endive is close enough but how about tippy tapping in ENGLISH!
or perhaps an mp3?

[Claire ex-ax]

I put it in Yale romanisation. guk is high tone and geuih is low.

In characters, it's 菊苣

[er2]

endive is close enough but how about tippy tapping in ENGLISH!
or perhaps an mp3?

Have a look at this website from CUHK. When you copy Claires characters (or look them up by setting the romanisation to Yale) you can listen to the pronounciation. If you want to type them, it is 廿心火木　廿尸尸 (tpfd tss) when using Cangjie, which comes with the standard installation of all pretty much all operating systems.

But I still wonder if coffee with chicory wouldn't taste very different from coffee with endive???