Miss Li and Green Tea
I have been looking to buy some decent green tea, and was advised to check out Trader Joe’s in Union Square. I finally made it there Sunday afternoon. I wish I had been told that this place is completely swamped with customers, elbow to elbow, aisle to aisle. Even so, I had already made the trek from my uptown world headquarters, and was planning to visit Doc Holliday’s afterwards anyway, so the half-hour wait on the checkout line only came out of my drinking time. The staff there, also, was beyond pleasant, helpful, and patient.
I asked Li for her current schedule, and she handed me a card, which is a nice touch. For those who also don’t see her enough, she regularly works at Doc’s Saturday nights, Sunday days, and Monday days. It sounds like a pretty grueling back-to-back schedule, but Li seemed up for it.
Li, by the way, was one of my first friends on MySpace. I think she was about my fifth friend or so, and made me realize that there are actually people I know and have met who are on it. Now I have over 5000 friends, and she, of course, is still one of them.
Oh, the tea. I bought three cartons, and have just tried a cup of Trader Joe’s blueberry green tea. It is OK, but slightly metallic-tasting. Green tea, however, has EGCG and lots of other good stuff. Even traditional Western medicine is beginning to recognize this, as the Mayo Clinic has been studying the effects of green tea on preventing some types of cancer.
And when you’re done with your tea, you can always switch, as I did at Doc’s Sunday, to some Belgian Light:
After buying some of their tea, I made it to Doc’s in time for the end of both happy hour and Li’s shift. The ever-lovely Li is a veteran, star bartender whom I don’t see often enough. I just can’t get all the way downtown to Doc’s enough, but when I do, it is always a pleasure. When I have brought people there from out of town, she has always impressed them and has become one of their favorite bartenders as well.
I asked Li for her current schedule, and she handed me a card, which is a nice touch. For those who also don’t see her enough, she regularly works at Doc’s Saturday nights, Sunday days, and Monday days. It sounds like a pretty grueling back-to-back schedule, but Li seemed up for it.
Li, by the way, was one of my first friends on MySpace. I think she was about my fifth friend or so, and made me realize that there are actually people I know and have met who are on it. Now I have over 5000 friends, and she, of course, is still one of them.
Oh, the tea. I bought three cartons, and have just tried a cup of Trader Joe’s blueberry green tea. It is OK, but slightly metallic-tasting. Green tea, however, has EGCG and lots of other good stuff. Even traditional Western medicine is beginning to recognize this, as the Mayo Clinic has been studying the effects of green tea on preventing some types of cancer.
And when you’re done with your tea, you can always switch, as I did at Doc’s Sunday, to some Belgian Light:
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