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I also like having my own personal tea caddies so they can be displayed in my little tea cabinet together with my tea accessaries. I also have two small metal ones for bringing tea to work. One from Royal Selangor and a stainless steel one from a Shanghai teashop which name I forgot.
If you are in USA, try itoen.com. I don’t know how their price compares, but they are reliable for daily quality, because they are really big and has a very long history in Japanese tea. Shipping cost from Japan for specialist quality is quite prohibitive.
Must be very tiring going to different regions to collect tea within the production season. Rest well first.
@LaHamsa, I meant to respond to you when you posted this but somehow was distracted till now. Sorry! I don’t think you should use those $3 pots at all! I hope you haven’t. They are meant to be cheap souvenirs and not actual use. That area you talked about, would it be near the Man Mo Temple by the slope with a long stairway? With many other kinds of knick-knacks such as fake jades and antiques, right? The teapots are as fake as the jades. I bet they use tons of chemicals in them.
@Betty, I am glad that you like the recipe. Hope you enjoy the dish. You can actually use the frying pan for the same thing. The wok is just easier to do stir fry.
I don’t know how others do it, but this is how I prepare the dish:
Shell 600g medium size shrimpsSlit the back and take out the veinMarinate with a bit of salt, pepper and rice wine, 20 minutesHeat wok to high heat, add a few tablespoons of peanut oilPut in a few thin slices of ginger, stir fry till brown at the edges and removeAdd the shrimps, stir fryWhen shrimp is almost done, throw in one or two tablespoons of Longjing leaves, stir fry a few seconds and ladle into the serving plate.Wow! I don’t believe I just wrote my own first recipe in English!If it is only very lightly expired, it can always be used for making tea, only not so good as before. It is also great opportunity to experiment new ideas of using Longjing, such as cooking with it. Stir fried shrimp with Longjing is traditional dish.There are many ways you can use an expired good tea:
Make a strong tea for flavouring with milk and sugar, or any other flavouring ideas.Odour absorber in the shoe cabinet, the cupboard or the fridge (it can be dried under low heat in the oven and reused a couple of times)Fertlizer: sprinkle a few evenly on the soil, or infuse it quite lightly for watering the plantsCatnips: However, some cats like it, some don’tHope one or two ideas here help.
