I am sorry to be impolite, but to my understanding, I think USD 35 for 150g of High Mountain Oolong is not really very high price in Taiwan. High Mountain Oolong is not a name of a tea but a general description. Better oolongs have specific names.
I agree that Tea Hong’s strategy is very good in the long run for educating the market what is genuine quality of famous teas, but I think this seems very risky for tea business. People may think, ar, I can get Longjing at 2 dollar, this shop is selling Longjing at 20, they are too expensive! Of course they don’t know what they are getting for 2 dollar is really bad green tea, not what Longjing really tastes like, but they don’t know what real Longjing is.
Another side of the idea is how much tea you are getting for the dollar. For example, in White Peony (like Betty discussed), I bought Tea Hong’s cheapest quality Fuding White Peony, but it is already much better than the highest level ones I got from Ying Kee and the one from Fok Ming Tong. Both of these are very famous Hong Kong tea shops. But people do not know there is the difference when they see only the tea name. Leo does not need to give customer so good quality, but he does. I am really amazed by what he is doing in selling, even more than I am amazed by his writings. Maybe he thinks differently than other tea people.
