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Hey,

what are scones?

Yeah my sister is a big fan of scones. She loves erm with just plain old strawberry jam. I like mine with Devonshire cream, yummy.

I'm a tea nut too. Love practically every type of tea. Darjeeling, Earl Grey, Masala Chai or just plain old Orange Pekoe black. East Asian teas I'm fond of include Dragonwell (Long Jing), Pearl Jasmine (Mo Li Long Zhu) and the Japanese greens such as Matcha. Dragonwell is definitely my favourite of the East Asian teas though. One of the highlights of my trip to China was rummaging through Zhejiang province buying teas lol. Ended up with a trunkload of dragonwell. Anyway here's a link to a site selling it. I didn't buy from these guys of course, this site does provides some decent info on the tea.

Coffee is for the barbarian masses. The cultured and refined drink tea.

As for tea companies, Marks and Spencer carries a decent line of teas. Twinings isn't bad either of course, its popular for a reason after all. Brookes Bond has a good line of black teas.

"Say to yourself in the early morning: I shall meet today ungrateful, violent, treacherous, envious, uncharitable men. All of these things have come upon them through ignorance of real good and ill... I can neither be harmed by any of them, for no man will involve me in wrong, nor can I be angry with my kinsman or hate him; for we have come into the world to work together" Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

Oh and uberbig name brands like Tetley and Lipton are just plain bad. Absolute rubbish. Tetley's orange pekoes in particular are bland, have no character and are simply weak.

The best teas generally come from small tea shops anyway. I frequent this joint in Vancouver whenever I can. Good tea, great clientele and cozy location.

The best breakfast tea I ever had was brought to the US by some Hong Kong students in my department.
It was loose tea and absolutely fabulous!

Well do you remember what color the packaging was? That might help.

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Scones are too dry for me, even with marge or butter on it. I prefer short bread mmm can taste it right now. Especially dipping them into tea. And how can I forget a spoty dick. Those in the UK know what I'm on about.

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In Filipino, this is called pan de sal. literal translation: the bread of salt.