I promised to post some local ready-to-drink tea products here so here it goes:
Firstly there is the old local brand “Vitasoy” which soy milk products have been a favourite choice by parents, albeit all the overdose of sugar. They have made the brand rich. The rich brand, in return, come back with more sugarly drink. Low production cost, but low selling price as well. Lemon tea, a favourite way of favouring black tea by the locals, is a top seller in the category. It is also perhaps the bottled tea with most tea content in it:
Taoti, a Taiwan brand employing some big-shot local actor in hypnotizing frequency of tv ads, is another brand with a long list of favours. They have also used the term “ji-pin”, meaning “extreme quality grade” which coincidently I have used for real premium tealeaves many years ago in my high profile brand. Seeing that they use it for lousy canned drink is most ridiculous. That’s how marketers brain wash the consumers. That’s one thing that triggered my writing on obscurantism. Notice in the below three images of the same “extreme quality grade” products: they are the same content, but in different packing materials to render the different price point for that “extreme quality” feel :-
Note that these things are available almost ANYWHERE in the city. Think of the manipulation they have on the average person’s concept about tea and about quality.
