Dear Saurav, You would have been surprised at the taste of the tea and the nostalgic memory of a slow train pulling into some village railway station near Naogaon or Lumding late at night where taste hardly matters!
Anjan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Saurav Pathak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Anjan K. Nath" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Bijay Barua" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2003 10:31 PM Subject: Re: [Assam] Assam Tea > > > > Anjan K. Nath said on AssamNet: > > + Here in Taiwan, Assam Tea is very popular, but sadly enough when I tried to > + get some importers to import directly from Assam, they shied away as the > + rates were far too high as compared with Sri Lankan and Kenyan tea; so > + actually the "Assam Tea" that we drink here are either Sri Lankan or Kenyan > + blended with an artificial flavour that gives it the distinct taste and > + aroma -- "railway station boquet" as we call it back home!! > > once while browsing through a chinese grocery i came across a canned > drink. "assam tea" it said. made in taiwan. > > i stood there for a while, but did not buy it. i should have, and > kept it as a momento. but i guess i was too upset. > > -- > saurav > > _______________________________________________ > Assam mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://pikespeak.uccs.edu/mailman/listinfo/assam > _______________________________________________ Assam mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://pikespeak.uccs.edu/mailman/listinfo/assam
