Hand-rolled indeed

I got some real nice tea as a gift

jasmine pearls

hundreds of these little rolled-up balls of tea that expand into pretty leaves when you pour water on them

my friends who just got back from china were like “those balls are rolled by hand”

and I'm all, no way

then last night I made some and there was a hair sticking out

thought it was mine but nope it was rolled into the tea ball itself

I unraveled the whole thing

long and black

and so I says, I'll tell ya what I says, I says YESSS