This rare chinese tea is carefully picked by specially trained monkeys in a remote mountain region of China. Legend has it that monkeys were first used to collect tea ten centuries ago, because upon seeing its master trying to reach some tea growing wild on a mountain face, the monkey climbed up the steep face and collected the tea growing there and brought it down to his master.
Nowadays the practice of monkeys picking tea has all but died out, except in one small remote village where they still continue this remarkable tradition.
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We were served Monkey-picked tea in a restaurant in Chicago, and they told us that the term now refers only to the high quality of the tea.
And I was told the "meat" in the moo goo gai pan was chicken....go figure.
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