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I have dinner every Monday night with a group of friends. We've worked on political campaigns, we've worked on single issues. And we've eaten some good eats. Last Monday we were joined by two Vietnamese monks and had some SE Asian fruit and incredible green tea. Above is a shot of the longan one of the monks bought at a market over on Washington Ave.

Here's a shot of the individual fruit unshelled and the seed inside. It's got a unique taste to it. I think it's sort of like a juicy chestnut. I can't remember what the rest of the gang thought it tasted like. I liked it. I think I had half a dozen.

And then it was on to the tea.

It was green tea, 103 King's Tea. Steeped in a medium-large teapot for under 30 seconds with cooler than boiling water (so the tea doesn't burn). It was the most incredible tea I've ever had. It starts off nice and smooth. And then the aftertaste. It's a sugary-sweet feeling all over the edges of your tongue. Even more incredible is after we finished with our cup, we poured hot water into our cups and told us to drink it. The hot water intensified the sugary taste even more. It's sorta like a Halls cough drop and drinking water, but replacing the menthol taste with a nice sugary-sweet one.

Gotta go looking for this tea in Chinatown at some point.

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