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To All Appearances A Lady - University of British Columbia

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Jim<br />

Wong-Chu<br />

(pronounce: téh or tea<br />

origin: fukienese/Scottish dialects)<br />

recipe for tea<br />

a modest pot<br />

enough for<br />

four<br />

small cups<br />

insert tea<br />

green or fermented<br />

or in a<br />

bag<br />

the water<br />

boiled separately<br />

keep your eyes<br />

on the bubbles<br />

shrimp eyes<br />

crab eyes<br />

fish eyes<br />

(the first ships came to trade)<br />

the area was fukien<br />

the traders were Scottish<br />

brought it back<br />

bastardized it<br />

made it mud<br />

drowned in heavy cream<br />

two, three teaspoons<br />

<strong>of</strong> colonial sugar<br />

in search for monopoly<br />

planted in india<br />

after their first crop:<br />

opium

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