"Not For All the Tea in China!"

This is the little tea shop in Beijing where I purchased some tea as gifts. Being illiterate, Li-yin ordered the tea for me and I chose the containers from the shelf of containers you see in the photo above. The nice tea shop ladies gave me several beautiful papercuts (apparently a bonus for purchasing tea) and I also took my picture with them behind the counter. Those shots were taken by Li-yin on her digital. I really need to get copies of her China photo CD's and glean off the shots she took of me. I thought the Chinese drink lots of tea. Maybe it's the older generation because I did see a lot of tea drinking in China. However, none of my Chinese friends drink tea on a regular basis.
I miss being in China. I know I only spent 15 days there. Still.