24438 Tue Jun 03 15:35:00 -0700 2003 10 1 San Francisco Bay Area 0 95253 From the SF Examiner... "There's a new tea room on Pacific Avenue, Eddie Lau's and May Hung's 'Dynastea'. Finally a Russian Hill Tea Room." Has anyone been? Can anyone report? Tue Jun 03 15:35:00 -0700 2003 0 derek 1 95256 Derek, You really need to read this board more often! ;-) Link: http://www.chowhound.com/topics/show/24262#94398 Tue Jun 03 15:47:45 -0700 2003 95253 0 Paul H 2 95258 What can I say!! I did a Google search..Dynastea, francisco..and used chowhound.com in advanced search...and nothing came up?!!! But what a terrific link to a great review! Thanks. Tue Jun 03 15:56:45 -0700 2003 95256 0 derek 3 95304 For recent posts (or recently opened places), it's better just to scan the board index or use good old Ctrl-F, because Google sometimes takes up to a month to index CH pages. Tue Jun 03 22:37:50 -0700 2003 95258 0 Caitlin McGrath 1 95265 From Stanley Stephan's review, it sounds like the place only features oolongs and black teas. I don't get the point of that. Tue Jun 03 17:02:23 -0700 2003 95253 0 Gary Soup 2 95296 They have a little of everything. It's just not as extensive as Celadon, Ten Ren or Imperial Tea and is more mid range quality (Celadon has ruined me). There are a couple of higher grade teas, but only a few. They even have ... tea bags. Before that gets anyone hysterical, May is very accomodating. I think it is more the tea room experience she is going for. So she is is also catering to the non savy tea person who might like to drop by ... which may be a good thing because when I was having a pot of lichee tea the other night I was sitting next to the ugly American. This woman was just reaming May out for serving tea in the traditional way ... complaining how impractical a gaiwan was ... and why these little cups, she asked. I don't like to have to keep filling the cup up with hot water ... on and on and on. I did my best to give her a look like she had two heads and told May how enjoyable the tea was. May just brewed her up big pot of tea to accomodate her. This was not a person who was going to be open to explanations about how to enjoy tea. Anyway, even if there were only oolong and black teas, why would that be a bad thing? Tue Jun 03 21:10:34 -0700 2003 95265 0 Stanley Stephan 3 95308 I think Gary is thirsting for dragon well. *chuckle* Tue Jun 03 23:05:51 -0700 2003 95296 0 Limster 4 95314 Actually, I haven't used up my stash of this year's pre-Qing Ming longjing yet. Link: http://www.warriortours.com/intro/tea_best.htm Tue Jun 03 23:52:59 -0700 2003 95308 0 Gary Soup 3 95312 It's just a thing. Green tea drinkers and red tea drinkers inhabit separate planets. Tue Jun 03 23:45:57 -0700 2003 95296 0 Gary Soup 1 95297 ... and in the next sentence they mentioned .. Kent Liggett and Peter Erickson just opened their 1550 Hyde St. Cafe & Wine Bar. It's all class. But affordable class. Very grown up. ... Two weeks ago the Examiner had a column on the restaurants on Cortland Avenue which I posted about a few weeks before. Am I developing a nose for news as well as good food? If I could only write better and wanted to do actual work instead of just typing this stuff off the top of my head, there might be money in this for me ... oh wait a minute, my BA is in Journalism ... no money in that I found many, many, many lifetimes ago. Better stick with the computer career. Link: http://www.chowhound.com/california/boards/sanfrancisco/messages/55278.html Tue Jun 03 21:21:05 -0700 2003 95253 0 Stanley Stephan 2 95303 You ABSOLUTELY, positively do write better! Perhaps a new profession is "A'bornin' Tue Jun 03 22:09:48 -0700 2003 95297 0 derek