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*barks at @Leucrotta* We are on the road to get tea and probably also tea equipment!!
Sheesh, the RAIN is something else.
Also the BART train that arrived is an old one, which is a rare and cool sight now! They were supposed to be phased out now.
@Leucrotta ...Perhaps we should have gotten off at Lake Merritt and looked for teaware before hitting KP for the actual tea. We don't know when the Chinatown shops close and I suspect it might be early.
@Leucrotta owo! Now THIS is a TEA AISLE!
there's SO MUCH TEA
we can get sencha here!!
Don't know what brands are good.
@Leucrotta We could even get a big bag of looseleaf sencha...
@Leucrotta I have no idea what this is but it looks good! (Expensive though.)
@Leucrotta I can't seem to find looseleaf oolong. Got it boxed, though, and some hojicha, which is roasted so that sounds really good!
@Leucrotta there's a WHOLE AISLE of frozen dumplings!! SCORE
@Leucrotta @spottyfox I don't see any gaiwans in their housewares section, but there's a nice Japanese tea set and oh heck I CANNOT pass up this beautiful wooden spoon!
@Leucrotta @spottyfox ...and they don't take our credit card and we don't have cash. Phooph! Need to remember to come back another time.
(the food we got with food stamps)
@Leucrotta @spottyfox Oh FUUUCK the brown sugar latte is REALLY GOOD! *wags*
@Leucrotta @spottyfox almost home
if we didn't have a bag of frozen dumplings I'd probably go to Ikea or something for a teapot
might still do that after dropping the dumplings off. Might not. We'll probably just crash.
@Leucrotta @spottyfox HOME.
*collapses.*
@spottyfox @Leucrotta mrrp
*leans into*
thanks I think I needed that
we need to put the frozen dumplings away but I can't move.
@spottyfox @Leucrotta oh, I forgot that they're meatless, so hopefully they won't be like, poisonous from being left out for several hours as we wandered Chinatown.
@frost I think they should be okay - frozen and how boiling/pan frying is going to eventually cook them through means even if they were pork, you'd still have a little time to play with before you'd run into trouble.
@Leucrotta Oh, that's really good to hear! 
@Leucrotta Are they better boiled than, say, microwaved? IIRC the bag has microwave instructions but also instructions for pan-fried and I can't remember what else.
There's also our cast iron pan... :3
@frost yeah. In terms of cooking in the future, you can boil them in a mix of water and soup stock to get soup; you *can* pan fry them for the entire time, but I tend to like boiling dumplings in water in a pan for a little bit just to make sure they're cooked through, then pan frying them to finish them out. I don't think a cast iron pan would be good for that.
@Leucrotta ...I think I'm gonna microwave some dumplings for now because fuck it, we're hungry. Then maybe additionally boil some, but right now, we need food.
@Leucrotta Okay WOW these bring back memories. Holy shit.
And they're pretty good, but they'd absolutely be better boiled! Should do that!
I wonder if dumplings and pasta would go together...
@Leucrotta ... possibly bad idea: TEA BROTH dumpling soup!
@Leucrotta Sencha and hojicha tea have a very meat-stock-like savory flavor, so it might actually work.
@frost there *are* tea eggs and some places by you will have them (rather than having to make them yourself over 5 days or so)
@Leucrotta oh!! Never heard of tea eggs! I think that might be a different thing?
like I just meant, brew some tea, add some water, boil dumplings in it, boom soup
@Leucrotta (boum soop)
@Leucrotta huhhhh good to know!