Comments on: Tea Review: Secret Orchid Oolong http://www.gongfugirl.com/2007/02/tea-review-secret-orchid-oolong/ Discovering the way of tea, one cup at a time. Tue, 07 Sep 2010 09:18:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Cinnabar http://www.gongfugirl.com/2007/02/tea-review-secret-orchid-oolong/comment-page-1/#comment-250 Cinnabar Fri, 11 May 2007 01:32:00 +0000 http://www.gongfugirl.com/?p=130#comment-250 That's really awful. I can't imagine how they can stay in business with such awful service and quality, but perhaps they are sustained by the high-end hotel business and the retail business is unimportant to them. That’s really awful. I can’t imagine how they can stay in business with such awful service and quality, but perhaps they are sustained by the high-end hotel business and the retail business is unimportant to them.

]]> By: Suzanne Dunlap http://www.gongfugirl.com/2007/02/tea-review-secret-orchid-oolong/comment-page-1/#comment-249 Suzanne Dunlap Thu, 10 May 2007 19:27:51 +0000 http://www.gongfugirl.com/?p=130#comment-249 Mitea is terrible. Mitea has NO customer service. I placed a $635 order recently - I ordered a pound of white tea ($250) and received only 1 ounce ($25); I ordered a quarter pound of another tea and again received only an ounce and the tea pot I ordered was missing three pieces. I have called the company over 10 times and sent 3 emails and no one has bothered to respond. I have mailed everything back and gone through my credit card company to dispute the charges. I have found all the items I ordered on other websites for less. It's too bad as I'd had a good experience with their tea at the Park Hyatt in DC but ordering from Mitea has been a nightmare. Mitea is terrible. Mitea has NO customer service. I placed a $635 order recently – I ordered a pound of white tea ($250) and received only 1 ounce ($25); I ordered a quarter pound of another tea and again received only an ounce and the tea pot I ordered was missing three pieces. I have called the company over 10 times and sent 3 emails and no one has bothered to respond. I have mailed everything back and gone through my credit card company to dispute the charges. I have found all the items I ordered on other websites for less. It’s too bad as I’d had a good experience with their tea at the Park Hyatt in DC but ordering from Mitea has been a nightmare.

]]> By: MarshalN http://www.gongfugirl.com/2007/02/tea-review-secret-orchid-oolong/comment-page-1/#comment-198 MarshalN Thu, 08 Mar 2007 10:44:40 +0000 http://www.gongfugirl.com/?p=130#comment-198 I'm convinced these people are frauds. The "1978" and "1982" puerhs they sell are readily available in Beijing for basically nothing.. a few dollars a brick. The tea they sold you (if it looks anything like the picture) should be a dancong from Guangdong province. The aroma should be intense, very floral, and not anything like what you described. I’m convinced these people are frauds. The “1978″ and “1982″ puerhs they sell are readily available in Beijing for basically nothing.. a few dollars a brick. The tea they sold you (if it looks anything like the picture) should be a dancong from Guangdong province. The aroma should be intense, very floral, and not anything like what you described.

]]> By: Cinnabar http://www.gongfugirl.com/2007/02/tea-review-secret-orchid-oolong/comment-page-1/#comment-181 Cinnabar Mon, 26 Feb 2007 02:00:27 +0000 http://www.gongfugirl.com/?p=130#comment-181 [Sorry it took so long to respond to this. Your reply was trapped in our spam filter unaccountably.] Thank you for the reference to the other discussions regarding Mitea. They may very well be the most elite fabulous tea retailer around, but they don't seem too trustworthy to me. I think that it's a worthwhile experiment to mail order something on the basis of a description that sounds so great, but it is always a risk without the opportunity to see and smell the leaves before purchase. [Sorry it took so long to respond to this. Your reply was trapped in our spam filter unaccountably.]

Thank you for the reference to the other discussions regarding Mitea. They may very well be the most elite fabulous tea retailer around, but they don’t seem too trustworthy to me. I think that it’s a worthwhile experiment to mail order something on the basis of a description that sounds so great, but it is always a risk without the opportunity to see and smell the leaves before purchase.

]]> By: Phyll http://www.gongfugirl.com/2007/02/tea-review-secret-orchid-oolong/comment-page-1/#comment-172 Phyll Fri, 16 Feb 2007 20:35:10 +0000 http://www.gongfugirl.com/?p=130#comment-172 While I have never dealt with Mitea before, the vendor was a subject of discussion on RFDT a while back. They (Mitea) sell a supposedly 1949 "cave-aged" pu'erh for $400 / oz. Skepticism was abound on the possiblity (or impossiblity) of designating any pu'er as being from 1949, when China was still in the thick of a civil war. Apparently, this 1949 tea is also being offered at the Park Hyatt Hotel in Washington, DC for a handsome price per pot (a pot of 1985 pu'er is $300...imagine how much they'd charge for a pot of the 1949 pu'er!). You can read the discussion and the Washington Post article on my blog at http://tinyurl.com/2pf7f8 I'm sorry to read their teas didn't work out for you. Phyll While I have never dealt with Mitea before, the vendor was a subject of discussion on RFDT a while back. They (Mitea) sell a supposedly 1949 “cave-aged” pu’erh for $400 / oz. Skepticism was abound on the possiblity (or impossiblity) of designating any pu’er as being from 1949, when China was still in the thick of a civil war. Apparently, this 1949 tea is also being offered at the Park Hyatt Hotel in Washington, DC for a handsome price per pot (a pot of 1985 pu’er is $300…imagine how much they’d charge for a pot of the 1949 pu’er!).

You can read the discussion and the Washington Post article on my blog at http://tinyurl.com/2pf7f8

I’m sorry to read their teas didn’t work out for you.

Phyll

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