ua-cam.com/users/shortsfbFAKlpueVg?si=pQfu5FSx5doAuAxt White monkey (Chinese: 白猴子; pinyin: Bái hóuzi) is a term for the phenomenon of white foreigners or immigrants in China being hired for modeling, advertising, English teaching, or promotional jobs on the basis of their race.[1][2] The phenomenon is based on the perception that association with foreigners, specifically white foreigners, can signify prestige, legitimacy, and international status.[2][3][4] The jobs themselves, called "white monkey jobs" or "face jobs",[5] often require little actual work on the part of the model, who in some cases is not expected to be fluent in Chinese.[6][4] The concept is considered a subset of a larger "rent a foreigner" industry in China and other parts of Asia.[2][7]
It ain't that easy, has to be organic even from the water to the soil you use. Some time it would be better if your tea farm terranes are near a mountain with natural mineral water. There are grape farms that are like that for great wine. Elevation of the tea farm for particular tea leaves. You'll need masters that knows how to dried the tea leaves that doesn't damage the tea leave. The time control that enclose all the essence of the tea before it completely dies off.
For those people who are curious to why this particular brand Chen Yun Ho’s tea cake is so expensive! It’s kind of your Monet or Van Gogh painting because the famous tea maker/factory who makes this tea cake went out of business in 1951 due to decline of business because of the war. Auction house are selling these $200k per piece back in 2000’s. So it’s basically antique for tea lovers. I understand the price is ridiculous but people who are paying millions for an old painting that’s useless to you but it’s priceless to the collectors.
People who bought this stuff is the same people that bought ginseng worth hundreds of thousands of dollars for a single brew of herbal remedy. You'd definitely have the wisdom (or folly) of an Emperor. You need to be one to buy this thing
It’s scary buying tea from china. But at the same time, china has some of the best teas I’ve ever sampled. Like “I wanna collect this and never wanna drink all of it because I don’t know when I’ll be able to purchase it again” sort of teas. Teas where you’re on a waiting list for years, and it may not be able to be grown one year because soil or atmospheric conditions, so they grow different teas that agree more with those conditions instead. My first real experience with GOOD Chinese teas was through a Reddit gift exchange. I’d said I’d like tea, and this person sent me some extremely expensive teas from china. Some of them were aged, some of them had been grown that year. They had more information on the teas than I think I know about myself! Down to the soil contents when the teas were grown. It truly is an art and a science.
@@stackmosayless-1669well, it actually just tasted differen for the aftertaste usually....in most case,,but if you're tea ,wine or coffee fanatics it just makes it feel awesome. Some maybe has somesort of less bitter and when combined when certain food it boosted both tastes. Just stuff like that, and the extra pros sometimes some of the tea gives health benefit like after drinking certain tea wifh higher certain mineral/chem you feel better for 2-3 days. Or you feel energized for the whole days bc caffeine is high 😅 or you get stomach ache bc your stomach acid triggered ,nobody knows until you drink it
Damn, I felt this to my core. As a kid my grandparents would visit from China and they would bring tea that they bought back near their home. They lived in a rural community in northern China, I don't think I'd be able to find that tea if I tried. Haven't had it since I was a kid but it's still burned into my memory.
Probably really bad compared to fresher tea. It's a collector's item that's an important piece of culinary history. You would never drink it, but put it on display. MAYBE you would drink it as part of a special ceremony to celebrate the past and tradition and you would make a big deal out of it (or you would just drink it casually because you are a rich loser who only wants to drink it because it's expensive, I hope no person like this ever gets their hand on this haha).
when my uncle butch offers nugs of his home grown, people in my family literally line up to see if they can get some lol i personally am not a fan of his home grown, but that's because i metabolize weed really fast and smoke mostly high CBD strains for body pain and anxiety management. that said, it has amazing smell and flavor and usually smokes very nicely as both a nug and a rollie.
@@719Flowers I think this guy edges him out just a little bit. This one sounds a bit more confident. Confident Chinese is fast. This guy's a bit faster than Xiaomanyc
@@SooSkiTzO_YT I've seen him. Personally I think this guy's a bit more confident in his chinese. He speaks faster and so it sounds a little bit more natural
when you understand the history, it actually makes sense that it costs over 200k. you see, someone said "it's worth over 200k" and then someone with too much money said "yes, I will pay that without questioning anything, because I have become so wealthy that money now simultaneously has both no meaning but also defines me as a person" and then someone else said "this was a reasonable and sane transaction. clearly this tea is worth that, despite every instinct screaming at me that it is not worth as much as 2 luxury cars..." and so now it is just worth that and everyone agrees because rich people are baffling to the rest of us
Your friend is priceless! Getting to be in the presence and talk with your friend and share in his experiences and gain such wisdom and see such history from him is priceless! 😅❤
Man the cabinets, the stacked books and low lights make for an amazing vibe. Its sad but kids wont know how it feels to find a store like this during a rainy Saturday during the 90s. One my best memories is an afternoon i spent in a bookstore like this i found in portland in 1996. Met my best friend there too.
who the hell cares about lamborghini. can you drink lamborghini? i bet it has awful taste if you try, like even worse then the cheapest tea you can find
He's got a thick northern accent like Xioma, must've learned in Beijing! ❤ I'm fascinated by people who can speak Mandarin + any other language. Mandarin is pretty hard.
Maybe the accent is just similar to my teachers, but I had a significantly easier time understanding this Chinese than most other random videos I see, and I'm close to a decade out of practice.
Na just a greedy boomer waiting for a stupid rich person to buy it. 300k I'd accidentally drop it and try to save it with my foot. So pathetic. It's not 300k value. It's 300k price tag
I also have a 'tea cake' that was gifted by my grandfather last year, and its true that the longer you store it for, the value increases. Mine has a paper wrapping instead of plastic and has the 'seal' as well so it needs extra care in my tea shelf.
I have never seen anything that cool tea related. I have tried more teas than most people, but this makes me so incredibly curious. And also makes me want to buy more tea to age.
@@fatuziI'm sure just learning about how to produce receipts that could look authentic would set off alarm bells in that kind of artisanal collector circle.
I see so many people saying that it's not worth the price. My dudes, it's antiques. It's expensive because someone, or perhaps even some people, over generations, kept these things protected. Following your logic, paintings by people like Monet, Vermeer, Rembrandt would be worth as much as the painting you can buy at your local art gallery. It's worth that much because some people value it as such.
Ive been debating on getting into tea for a while now, then i see you with all this stuff that looks way better to me then a lot of the herbal teas. You may have just started a tea addiction for me😂
I collect guns I’d rather pay what I pay for top shelf then tea my most wis around 12 k and it’s a 50 cal bet you can’t guess the gun😂. Its a girls best friend
"Getting into tea" god the redditization of all our hobbies has got to end, it's leaves that cost 3 bucks at the grocery store. Wtf is there to "get into"? Stop complicating the uncomplicated.
“How can you tell old tea from new tea?” “New tea is wrapped in plastic, but they didnt have plastic a long time ago- so old tea usually isnt wra- shit”
I think its from close to turn of the century 1900 but not sure of an exact date. As far as the value its just as a relic / collectors item. Not likely that there are many in circulation
One thing i find fascinating that this is a good example of, plastic cant actually hold air in/out of what it's wrapping because the air molecules are smaller than the gaps between the plastic ones. This is a big part of why Australians and new zealanders sent our ANZAC biscuits to our soldiers in ww1/2 in metal tins, obviously avoiding crushing them was also a good bonus but it was the best way to keep them from going stale
My uncle was a guest of the government of China and received a gift of a tin of lung chin super fine. It was just shiny triangles of the tips of tea leaves. I have never tasted better tea. I went to many markets and no one could obtain it. Don't know what it was worth but it was made very clear that it was unobtainable.
Tea bricks/tea cakes were common in the West, too. For some reason they fell out of fashion. It's actually a more practical way to store tea compared to loose leaves in a bag.
@@lynth In the past, tea was getting too expensive per brick, so smaller bags, packets and tins came about for the middle and lower class who wanted some tea, but not a whole expensive brick. Nowadays, it's just convenient to pop a bag in a mug and pour hot water, and bricks are still not sufficiently affordable outside of Asia
I had a cup of some expensive tea a Chinese friend gave me. $500 for a little gold box of it. Supposedly it was from a tree that emperors got their tea from. It tasted… …like tea. 🤷
I was lucky to be invited to a tea ceremony with an old Qigong master who brought quality tea crom China, it was frickin amazing tea. Way above and beyond anything ive been able to acquire in the west.
It's interesting how they're both obviously fluent in "Chinese" (likely Mandarin, but I can't tell the difference to Yue) yet still sound like they're speaking different languages, just by tone of their voices.
It's mandarin, as Yue is called cantonese and spoken primarily in the Guangdong or Hong Kong. The reason they sound like they're speaking different languages is due to accent. Jesse has great pronounciation, but has a northern accent to his chinese. His friend has a different accent and doesn't have as much upward curve on his "er" sounds like Jesse. Also, this is difficult to describe, but even though jesse has great fluency and pronunciation, to my ears, he still sounds a little "foreign." It's more to do with the way he sounds more deliberate when he speaks chinese, like he has to take some effort to put his thoughts together and speak the correct words or something idk if that makes sense
Thank you for providing a good explanation to their accents. Interesting that you can tell he's a foreigners with just how he speaks, even though it's sounds fluent and natural! Really cool! I'd love to mandarin one day!
I feel like it's similar to fine wine, you get decreasing returns the longer you age it until it stops benefitting the product and can even start to degrade it (turning into sludge or vinegar in the case of wine)
@@snareplug3872 yeah I kno tea is big business over there, but $300k for tea jus pulled from a random shelf 🤣 come on, they cappin for sure. No individual box or anything? Cap.
If it were wine or whisky you wouldn't see any problem. Why is tea different? In fact this is much cheaper than those expensive alcohol because a cake of tea is ~350 gram, which can brew ~17500 ml tea. That's more than 20 wine bottles.
@@pandiyaya8704 Okay, but I presume you at least understand why some people might spend money on it. If not for a drink than maybe for caviar, saffron, kobe beef, and truffles.
Nah that tea is nice. It's no different from mfers who buy expensive wines like Grange, or expensive cigars. China's tea culture is insane, and they're a country with over 5000 years of history in tea, so it's different over there.
Man when collectors or ppl like this start pulling out books and stuff PLEASE SIT AND LISTEN GENUINELY AND DONT BE ALL "RUSHY". They literally live for these moments💯❤️👑💪🏿🙏
Even u knowing how much it is, you were gripping it, moving it with ur hands while talking, being completely disrespectful about it. All you had to do was hold it once but you majorly disrespected him by holding it like that & squeezing/waving it around while talking For someone who’s “passionate” about this, u seem to have zero respect for others belongings
He was not disrespectful at all. The store owner did not seem the least bit mad/irritated. He gripped it just enough to hold it without it slipping out of his hands. The owner handled it rougher than him. I don't get your comment. Its like you're trying to find something to bitch about.
@@brandonjaeger the owner already talked about it Plz don’t say things unless u know. Don’t just assume things cuz “it seemed that way” their culture they’re nice always. It’s uncomfortable for them to call people out for being rude/disrespectful cuz doesn’t happen there. But it seems you’re just like the disrespectful person
To some this does not make sense, but to people who celebrate these items, these are exquisite. Let’s just respect that and try to understand their culture.
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bro's chinese is so good he even picked up the regional accent
That’s what happens when you learn any language anywhere. You emulate what you hear
I speak mandarin and holy shit it is so good
@@U9IRhe’s a famous former comedian in China
@@Sam-nq6rh dang
That is literally how learning a language works my guy. Americans really need to get out more
*“Top shelf Zaza disrupted my circadian rhythm”*
Smoking shit out of a glass pipe blowing the lords bubbles
Holy shit I lold so hard bro ty
This shit ain't nothing to me man.
This shit ain't nothing to me man.
@@Kasdog “I drank her piss out of another man’s balls”
Bro loved tea so much he learned Chinese
Other way around iirc
@@RonryAsAlways sage advice 🤔
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White monkey (Chinese: 白猴子; pinyin: Bái hóuzi) is a term for the phenomenon of white foreigners or immigrants in China being hired for modeling, advertising, English teaching, or promotional jobs on the basis of their race.[1][2] The phenomenon is based on the perception that association with foreigners, specifically white foreigners, can signify prestige, legitimacy, and international status.[2][3][4] The jobs themselves, called "white monkey jobs" or "face jobs",[5] often require little actual work on the part of the model, who in some cases is not expected to be fluent in Chinese.[6][4] The concept is considered a subset of a larger "rent a foreigner" industry in China and other parts of Asia.[2][7]
@@RonryAsAlwaysbro loved china so much he learned teanese
😂@@princess_sunny
For $300k, im buying a piece of land and growing my own tea
That exactly what someone did, bought their own land and grew their own tea until they forged a tea worth 300k
It ain't that easy, has to be organic even from the water to the soil you use. Some time it would be better if your tea farm terranes are near a mountain with natural mineral water. There are grape farms that are like that for great wine. Elevation of the tea farm for particular tea leaves.
You'll need masters that knows how to dried the tea leaves that doesn't damage the tea leave. The time control that enclose all the essence of the tea before it completely dies off.
@@devinliu2584well said!
你需要找到更傻的中国人相信这个东西的价值
Yeah joke
You can tell how passionate that man is by how excited he was to show you his books and teach you. What a wholesome video.
So innocent you are
I’d show the same passion if I was trying to scam $300k usd
That book is printed just to sell that tea. There is a reason he kept that at the bottom of the stack.
And i can tell how fake this comment was lmaooo
@@wengeance8962The chinese truly are the jews of the east. Only a deceptive people would try to sell dirt for $300K...
For those people who are curious to why this particular brand Chen Yun Ho’s tea cake is so expensive! It’s kind of your Monet or Van Gogh painting because the famous tea maker/factory who makes this tea cake went out of business in 1951 due to decline of business because of the war. Auction house are selling these $200k per piece back in 2000’s. So it’s basically antique for tea lovers. I understand the price is ridiculous but people who are paying millions for an old painting that’s useless to you but it’s priceless to the collectors.
More relatable to wine vintages than paintings since it's a consumable product and does have a shelf life. Still collectible and expensive 🤷♂️
Art is the last tax free investment that’s why it’s valuable not because Monet died.
If you open the tea and use it and drink it, you’ll be able to see into the future
The plastic wrap must have contaminated the tea by now.
Yes, that's right. They're the kind of buyers that these kind of sellers are targetting too. Those stupid ones. 🤓😁😆😅😂🤭🫣🤫🤔
For 300k a sip of that tea better give me the wisdom of 1000 Chinese emperors and philosophers
Same. I guess to some though that kind of money would be no different than us pay $10 for Starbucks lol.
Nah, just a little essence of regret
Each cup grants you the Mandate of Heaven for like a year
People who bought this stuff is the same people that bought ginseng worth hundreds of thousands of dollars for a single brew of herbal remedy. You'd definitely have the wisdom (or folly) of an Emperor. You need to be one to buy this thing
A sip of that tea would probably taste like ass, the thing is way too old and not perfectly preserved to be good anymore.
I love everything about that store. The shelves, the clutter, it looks so cozy.
This whole time I thought two Chinese people were talking to each other and one was just translating in English lmao bro speaks so good
😂 He has picked up a Northern accent but he still sounds like an English speaker. Not completely native
@@ayszhanghonestly, for a second language learnt during adulthood, crazy. insane. wild how well he speaks.
It’s scary buying tea from china. But at the same time, china has some of the best teas I’ve ever sampled. Like “I wanna collect this and never wanna drink all of it because I don’t know when I’ll be able to purchase it again” sort of teas. Teas where you’re on a waiting list for years, and it may not be able to be grown one year because soil or atmospheric conditions, so they grow different teas that agree more with those conditions instead. My first real experience with GOOD Chinese teas was through a Reddit gift exchange. I’d said I’d like tea, and this person sent me some extremely expensive teas from china. Some of them were aged, some of them had been grown that year. They had more information on the teas than I think I know about myself! Down to the soil contents when the teas were grown. It truly is an art and a science.
What do they taste like? Do any give you a buzz type of feeling?
@@stackmosayless-1669well, it actually just tasted differen for the aftertaste usually....in most case,,but if you're tea ,wine or coffee fanatics it just makes it feel awesome.
Some maybe has somesort of less bitter and when combined when certain food it boosted both tastes.
Just stuff like that, and the extra pros sometimes some of the tea gives health benefit like after drinking certain tea wifh higher certain mineral/chem you feel better for 2-3 days. Or you feel energized for the whole days bc caffeine is high 😅 or you get stomach ache bc your stomach acid triggered ,nobody knows until you drink it
Wow, recently I’ve been drinking Japanese tea
Damn, I felt this to my core. As a kid my grandparents would visit from China and they would bring tea that they bought back near their home. They lived in a rural community in northern China, I don't think I'd be able to find that tea if I tried. Haven't had it since I was a kid but it's still burned into my memory.
Taste like feet in the best way
Few things make me happier then seeing someone share something they’re truly passionate about.
DUDE your accent is phenomenal!!!!! my jaw dropped haha. i showed this to my chinese parents and they were so impressed too
Im not even big into tea and tea culture, but i just love these vids! 🎉❤
So i estimate it costs around 50k for a cup... how many folk got that type of money and nothing better to spend it on than a selfindulgent cup of tea.
@@KoldTurkeyBritish
That’s insane!! I wonder what that tea tastes like!?
Old
dusty
Balls
Probably really bad compared to fresher tea. It's a collector's item that's an important piece of culinary history. You would never drink it, but put it on display. MAYBE you would drink it as part of a special ceremony to celebrate the past and tradition and you would make a big deal out of it (or you would just drink it casually because you are a rich loser who only wants to drink it because it's expensive, I hope no person like this ever gets their hand on this haha).
Moth balls
I love seeing/hearing experts talk about their work
That tea better send me to mars for 300 thousand dollars
I hear tea of the mushroom variety can do that
It has better send me straight to the toilet!
This must be what it's like when my oldest and his buds sit around and share their dad's homegrown😂
W dad
W dad
Lmao “dad said this pack is from before I was born, OG Alaskan Thunderfuck!”
@@tiko4621man I haven't had some good thunderfuck in a minute I gotta have a look around for that strain
when my uncle butch offers nugs of his home grown, people in my family literally line up to see if they can get some lol i personally am not a fan of his home grown, but that's because i metabolize weed really fast and smoke mostly high CBD strains for body pain and anxiety management. that said, it has amazing smell and flavor and usually smokes very nicely as both a nug and a rollie.
You’re the first non Chinese, non Asian person that I can finally say speaks truly AMAZING Chinese. And I’m generally very good at hearing accents
Must have never seen the dude who speaks like 50 languages his name is "xiaomanyc"
Xiaomanyc is the best
@@719Flowers I think this guy edges him out just a little bit. This one sounds a bit more confident. Confident Chinese is fast. This guy's a bit faster than Xiaomanyc
@@SooSkiTzO_YT I've seen him. Personally I think this guy's a bit more confident in his chinese. He speaks faster and so it sounds a little bit more natural
@@719FlowersXiaoma aint great imo there are a lot better
when you understand the history, it actually makes sense that it costs over 200k.
you see, someone said "it's worth over 200k" and then someone with too much money said "yes, I will pay that without questioning anything, because I have become so wealthy that money now simultaneously has both no meaning but also defines me as a person" and then someone else said "this was a reasonable and sane transaction. clearly this tea is worth that, despite every instinct screaming at me that it is not worth as much as 2 luxury cars..."
and so now it is just worth that and everyone agrees because rich people are baffling to the rest of us
I love how passionate you are about tea :) and you speak very good Chinese too
Hes whipping out a book too. He really knows his stuff. A 300k tea. Wonder what that tastes like
You would hope so he sells tea……………………………….
No one will ever know. It’s just become a commodity like rare wine or art. Just a way to launder money between the wealthy.
@@simorebuths7301Yeah but a lot of people peddle fake bullshit. Snake oil sales men have been around for ever so……………
Probably tastes like dirt. I wouldn’t pay more than $30
Ass
Yunqing got style. Good shirt.
When you have a teacake worth $300k you can afford a nice shirt
I would have anxiety just holding it
Eyy.. havent seen you in a long time
Your friend is priceless! Getting to be in the presence and talk with your friend and share in his experiences and gain such wisdom and see such history from him is priceless! 😅❤
I love listening to people talk fluently in other languages. At least fluent to my ears
Your Chinese is amazing this video is so impressive. Its really a super power to be able to speak multiple languages
Man the cabinets, the stacked books and low lights make for an amazing vibe.
Its sad but kids wont know how it feels to find a store like this during a rainy Saturday during the 90s.
One my best memories is an afternoon i spent in a bookstore like this i found in portland in 1996. Met my best friend there too.
Friends talking about tea. What a treat to look back on in life to smile about. Family, friends, and memories are true treasures.
I've always love tea and tea culture/ceremonies! I've just followed you a week or 2 and I've learned so much!
Hes holding a Lamborghini in his hands right there
who the hell cares about lamborghini. can you drink lamborghini? i bet it has awful taste if you try, like even worse then the cheapest tea you can find
@@user-mp7bp2dn2d People, at least smart people, buy supercars as an investment
They go up in value, yk
I love how this man dedicated his whole life to tea
“Thanks for showing me a $300,000 tea cake” *Frisbees it back to the guy*
He's got a thick northern accent like Xioma, must've learned in Beijing! ❤
I'm fascinated by people who can speak Mandarin + any other language. Mandarin is pretty hard.
Maybe the accent is just similar to my teachers, but I had a significantly easier time understanding this Chinese than most other random videos I see, and I'm close to a decade out of practice.
I believe this guy showed up in one of xioma video before talking about life in China
Bro smugglin opium in that cake lmao
For 300k? Bro no amount of opium thst fits in thst cake is worth that much
What u think a g of that tea hitting for
Na just a greedy boomer waiting for a stupid rich person to buy it. 300k I'd accidentally drop it and try to save it with my foot. So pathetic. It's not 300k value. It's 300k price tag
I've seen 300 dollar cigars in a better display than plastic wrap with stupid note in it. 😅 tf is this gullible social media these days
@@contentdeleted4978fr mf plastic wrapped for 300k absolute cap
I also have a 'tea cake' that was gifted by my grandfather last year, and its true that the longer you store it for, the value increases. Mine has a paper wrapping instead of plastic and has the 'seal' as well so it needs extra care in my tea shelf.
If I get an everlasting life on that tea, maybe I'll buy. If not, forget it!
I have never seen anything that cool tea related. I have tried more teas than most people, but this makes me so incredibly curious. And also makes me want to buy more tea to age.
Is there any. High end tea u tried. That’ you really thought this awesome ??
@@SweetHoteilol the comment ain't even like that you Freak
Just my opinion but as a fellow tea lover I cannot see the taste being enhanced by aging it... I may be wrong but if anything the flavour will lessen
@@georgem8744 I am not trying to be rude, but you happen to be wrong. Just look it up/ try it for yourself
okay I need to get into the tee forgery market 😂
Same, seems easy to fake lol
@@fatuzitbh its easy to spot out the fakes when u actually into the tea market stuff
@@fatuziI'm sure just learning about how to produce receipts that could look authentic would set off alarm bells in that kind of artisanal collector circle.
@@fatuziI mean if you can fool a tea collector good luck 😂
Who else thought that : millions 9f Chinese. When did they think that : since wayyyy back
I see so many people saying that it's not worth the price. My dudes, it's antiques. It's expensive because someone, or perhaps even some people, over generations, kept these things protected. Following your logic, paintings by people like Monet, Vermeer, Rembrandt would be worth as much as the painting you can buy at your local art gallery. It's worth that much because some people value it as such.
Your mandarin is very good. The accent is China accent. Magnificent!
Ive been debating on getting into tea for a while now, then i see you with all this stuff that looks way better to me then a lot of the herbal teas. You may have just started a tea addiction for me😂
To each their own... I drink tea but what i saw in this video was a 300k hyped of chunk of dirt wrapped in saran wrap lol
This shit prolly tastes like ass, its only expensive because of status and tradition, kinda like with alcohol
I collect guns I’d rather pay what I pay for top shelf then tea my most wis around 12 k and it’s a 50 cal bet you can’t guess the gun😂. Its a girls best friend
"Getting into tea" god the redditization of all our hobbies has got to end, it's leaves that cost 3 bucks at the grocery store. Wtf is there to "get into"? Stop complicating the uncomplicated.
@@WhayYay this isnt 3 dollar tea🤦♂️
Is there any place i can get a gaiwan like hes using? Possibly at your website one day? 😂
Yes we will be putting some new Gaiwans on the site soon, I have a new gaiwan set in the works now!
This tea must make me speak fluent Chinese when I drink it for that much
with that price i hope the person who consume it learn kung fu and became immortal and ascend to heaven
The boldness of the label makes my brain happy for some reason too
The person who buys that, will be getting scammed ! 😂😂😂😂😂
China is the leader of the world in fake luxury goods. I'm guessing that extends to whatever a tea cake is too
The work that goes into these teas.. its insane. I can support these kind products. Natural, sun grown goodness. Great stuf
The way he said woe at the end resonated in my chest xD that was so unexpected 😂
“How can you tell old tea from new tea?”
“New tea is wrapped in plastic, but they didnt have plastic a long time ago- so old tea usually isnt wra- shit”
So because they can wrap a product you think that makes it fake?
@@BJGvideos i think that makes it a joke.
I'd buy that for a dollar!
WHAT A WHOLESOME MAN OF TEA 😊
This dude is like a tea wizard.
Leave immediately, you’re being hustled. 😂
Yup the ticket don't even look the same😂😂😂 the 1 in the book is all torn up and the 1 in the cake is still in decent condition.😂😂😂
dang i need to sell fake old tea disks like this man.
There's no fake tea
Everything came from tea plant and they're all real tea😂
I don't know why but listening you both speaking chinese to each other feels soothing to me
It would be nice if there was any info given about it. How old, why it's so valuable, etc.
I think its from close to turn of the century 1900 but not sure of an exact date. As far as the value its just as a relic / collectors item. Not likely that there are many in circulation
It's a UA-cam short, not a full length video lol
@@FentanylPopsicle so what you’re saying is you don’t know anything about this tea?
Would your tea pets still get the first steep?
One thing i find fascinating that this is a good example of, plastic cant actually hold air in/out of what it's wrapping because the air molecules are smaller than the gaps between the plastic ones.
This is a big part of why Australians and new zealanders sent our ANZAC biscuits to our soldiers in ww1/2 in metal tins, obviously avoiding crushing them was also a good bonus but it was the best way to keep them from going stale
Yes that and the use of plastics really didn’t hit its stride until the 50’s-60’s and, sadly, has steadily increased since then.
My uncle was a guest of the government of China and received a gift of a tin of lung chin super fine. It was just shiny triangles of the tips of tea leaves. I have never tasted better tea. I went to many markets and no one could obtain it. Don't know what it was worth but it was made very clear that it was unobtainable.
Tea in the West is totally different from the one in China
Tea bricks/tea cakes were common in the West, too. For some reason they fell out of fashion. It's actually a more practical way to store tea compared to loose leaves in a bag.
Tea cakes were super common in Europe too from the 16th century on.
@@lynthBricks were expensive. To bring Tea to the common folk they started selling loose tea and tea in small bags
@@lynth In the past, tea was getting too expensive per brick, so smaller bags, packets and tins came about for the middle and lower class who wanted some tea, but not a whole expensive brick. Nowadays, it's just convenient to pop a bag in a mug and pour hot water, and bricks are still not sufficiently affordable outside of Asia
Tea in China is fake. Buy Taiwan tea
His Chinese is not just good, his Chinese is amazing. Even the pronunciation and grammar is close to a native speaker.
Absolutely wholesome. Exactly why I love Yerba Mate and spanish
His passion truly shows 🙌
$300k for handful of dried leaves. But if you act now in the next 5 min you get yours for 3 easy payments of 19.95
I had a cup of some expensive tea a Chinese friend gave me. $500 for a little gold box of it. Supposedly it was from a tree that emperors got their tea from. It tasted…
…like tea. 🤷
I was lucky to be invited to a tea ceremony with an old Qigong master who brought quality tea crom China, it was frickin amazing tea. Way above and beyond anything ive been able to acquire in the west.
Still...freakin dry leaves...not worth the price of a house
Forget the tea cake. Dude has the regional nuances of the language ON POINT. Amazing!
How old is this cake?
Your cake is only as old as you are my fren.
from the last dynasty so like 100
The company was in business between 1880-1951.
It's interesting how they're both obviously fluent in "Chinese" (likely Mandarin, but I can't tell the difference to Yue) yet still sound like they're speaking different languages, just by tone of their voices.
It's mandarin, as Yue is called cantonese and spoken primarily in the Guangdong or Hong Kong. The reason they sound like they're speaking different languages is due to accent. Jesse has great pronounciation, but has a northern accent to his chinese. His friend has a different accent and doesn't have as much upward curve on his "er" sounds like Jesse. Also, this is difficult to describe, but even though jesse has great fluency and pronunciation, to my ears, he still sounds a little "foreign." It's more to do with the way he sounds more deliberate when he speaks chinese, like he has to take some effort to put his thoughts together and speak the correct words or something idk if that makes sense
Thank you for providing a good explanation to their accents. Interesting that you can tell he's a foreigners with just how he speaks, even though it's sounds fluent and natural!
Really cool! I'd love to mandarin one day!
This is what Mcnulty would look like if he got sober
Me who’s buying 100 black tea bags for 4 bucks on Amazon
I got 60 yr old twinkie only 100k.I got pictures of box twinkies it came out of and it weighs double what normal twinky weighs so its legit!
Lol thank u
Seriously all the comments that believe ANYONE is willing to pay 300k for some leaves...
That’s like comparing the Mona Lisa to a 3yo ‘s scribbles. Although I get it. Nuance isn’t something that comes naturally to everyone.
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Ah, more of a Little Debbie snack cakes fan then?
@@user-tr2dh4xx6u”Filthy Rich” people do. They spend there money on things like this all the time.
I'm really curious about how it would taste but at the same time I want it to continue to ferment for better flavor 🥹
Fermentation has stop before packaging....
I feel like it's similar to fine wine, you get decreasing returns the longer you age it until it stops benefitting the product and can even start to degrade it (turning into sludge or vinegar in the case of wine)
That guys a hustler 😂
Oh I wish I could have a list of all those books. Exciting stack.
That tea cake was probably glued together in a factory in Shenzhen last week, 300 grand my @ss crack 😂
You can price anything for however much you want… doesn’t mean someone is gonna buy it lmao
No one's ever buying that for sure, it'll just sit around and go up in price til it's rotten 🤣
@@Unknown-UpTown-Residentnah the Chinese tea business is big, and im mostly anti china 😂
That’ll certainly be bought
@@snareplug3872 yeah I kno tea is big business over there, but $300k for tea jus pulled from a random shelf 🤣 come on, they cappin for sure. No individual box or anything? Cap.
@@Unknown-UpTown-Residentpretty much. The idea is the longer it ages the richer the flavor. Kind of like red wine.
Bro at the end really said ”🚪”
When he switched to Chinese with English accent it was literally Sims
Chinese can make any food product. 300k old tea is no problem as they can make it overnight. Fact.
Bagging tea and creating books seems like an easy enough scam to me for 300K
You are so cool, dude. ❤😎 This is awesome. I love how passionate you are about tea.
your Chinese is amazing
you still can’t tell if it’s actually fake or not
ABSOLUTY NO ONE is buying tea cake for 300k
It's a scm
If it were wine or whisky you wouldn't see any problem. Why is tea different?
In fact this is much cheaper than those expensive alcohol because a cake of tea is ~350 gram, which can brew ~17500 ml tea. That's more than 20 wine bottles.
@@commenter4898 Im not drinking alcohol
@@pandiyaya8704 Okay, but I presume you at least understand why some people might spend money on it. If not for a drink than maybe for caviar, saffron, kobe beef, and truffles.
@@commenter4898 300k for leaves
You inspire me to learn chinese buddy, the milennial culture and knowledge of China never fails to amaze me.😊👍💯
This is another level , guess the drug cartel would consider tea instead of drugs now😂
Whoever pays 289k for some dried up leaves is one silly mfr
Let me introduce you to archaeology.
Do u mean tea or the heaven herb? 😂😂
thought so ,but is weird
Nah that tea is nice. It's no different from mfers who buy expensive wines like Grange, or expensive cigars. China's tea culture is insane, and they're a country with over 5000 years of history in tea, so it's different over there.
more less people try to smoke crazy expensive weed just to get the same high as the cheaper weed
For foreigners it’s 300k for locals it’s 3$
Man when collectors or ppl like this start pulling out books and stuff PLEASE SIT AND LISTEN GENUINELY AND DONT BE ALL "RUSHY". They literally live for these moments💯❤️👑💪🏿🙏
The Chinese are the OG tea nerds
Even u knowing how much it is, you were gripping it, moving it with ur hands while talking, being completely disrespectful about it.
All you had to do was hold it once but you majorly disrespected him by holding it like that & squeezing/waving it around while talking
For someone who’s “passionate” about this, u seem to have zero respect for others belongings
He was not disrespectful at all. The store owner did not seem the least bit mad/irritated. He gripped it just enough to hold it without it slipping out of his hands. The owner handled it rougher than him. I don't get your comment. Its like you're trying to find something to bitch about.
@@brandonjaeger the owner already talked about it
Plz don’t say things unless u know. Don’t just assume things cuz “it seemed that way” their culture they’re nice always. It’s uncomfortable for them to call people out for being rude/disrespectful cuz doesn’t happen there. But it seems you’re just like the disrespectful person
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Lol.... relax. The owner wouldn't have let him hold it if it was that big of a deal....😂
Man I love how we busted a book out. Just getting into tea brewing
Why do I feel like I'm watching the 700 club whenever I'm watching this video? 🤓😁😆😂🤭🤫
To some this does not make sense, but to people who celebrate these items, these are exquisite. Let’s just respect that and try to understand their culture.
The way he speaks Chinese so fluently is insane
a perfect "Van Gogh" fake tea leaves 😂
The tea game has spilled
I tried some of this tea... was amazing! Tasted exactly like tea!
A book full of original writing. How easy it must be to fake those papers