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- Sat May 10, 2025 1:01 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: What's your tea of choice when you're sad?
- Replies: 28
- Views: 29032
Re: What's your tea of choice when you're sad?
I made a new discovery in this realm recently. When blue and alone , it can be really comforting to drink tea that a friend has thoughtfully gifted to you. It has the potential to make you feel less alone, cared for. I find this metaphysical aspect can be more important than the taste itself (provid...
- Sat Jan 18, 2025 9:48 am
- Forum: Vendor Discussion & Recommendation
- Topic: Chawang Shop
- Replies: 2
- Views: 9316
Re: Chawang Shop
Website so slow and non functional i ended up asking local friend to go to store and pick something out for me in person Hah that's nice 😄 It was quite slow yes but I managed to make an order. One thing to note is that you don't pay immediately. Rather they send you a PayPal link after shipping cos...
- Wed Jan 15, 2025 11:29 am
- Forum: Vendor Discussion & Recommendation
- Topic: Chawang Shop
- Replies: 2
- Views: 9316
Chawang Shop
A classic tea shop from Kunming with a western facing website:- Wed Nov 13, 2024 4:07 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Your day in tea
- Replies: 521
- Views: 406070
Re: Your day in tea
... the Suzuki steel glazed yunomi, whose wide opening allows the tea to cool to slurping temperature quickly, a good thing for quick infusions of sheng. ./download/file.php?id=15516 A stunning yunomi! Myself I Just got back from travels and it's nice to have all the varieties close at hand again :)
- Mon Aug 05, 2024 6:05 am
- Forum: Black Tea
- Topic: Yunnan recommendations
- Replies: 3
- Views: 8106
Re: Yunnan recommendations
Welcome! Yunnan Sourcing is a popular and well regarded shop for Yunnan blacks and puerh. They have warehouses in China and US both. The US site seems to have some golden monkey . Disclaimer: I haven't tried this particular offering. Instead of placing all your eggs in one basket, go ahead and try a...
- Tue Jul 09, 2024 9:47 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: What's your tea of choice when you're sad?
- Replies: 28
- Views: 29032
- Mon Apr 29, 2024 12:51 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: What's your tea of choice when you're sad?
- Replies: 28
- Views: 29032
Re: What's your tea of choice when you're sad?
Not something to uplift or to heal - but to delve deeper and perhaps to pass through Nicely put. Perhaps strangely, I avoid aged tea in this situation (perhaps one of the only times when I avoid them, whereas LeoFox seeks them out...). That's because they can be a bit 'too contemplative' (just as I...
- Sun Apr 28, 2024 11:09 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: What's your tea of choice when you're sad?
- Replies: 28
- Views: 29032
What's your tea of choice when you're sad?
I always go for the simple dark shous. Usually this resolves to a not-too-old Dayi V93, but really any shou of this sort would do. I find it cozy to mentally sink into the deep, full bodied darkness. Almost works as a pillow.
Everyone's sad from time to time. What's your pick?
Everyone's sad from time to time. What's your pick?
- Sun Mar 10, 2024 10:38 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Transporting teas when moving internationally
- Replies: 5
- Views: 9759
Re: Transporting teas when moving internationally
No real experience but at one time I looked seriously into moving to Australia, and the rules seemed pretty strict.. It would be interesting if someone had actual experience in crossing this border with tea?
- Thu Feb 22, 2024 6:33 am
- Forum: Black Tea
- Topic: What Black Are You Drinking
- Replies: 704
- Views: 599403
- Fri Feb 02, 2024 6:05 am
- Forum: Tea/Teaware Vendors
- Topic: Bok
- Replies: 286
- Views: 408997
- Fri Jan 19, 2024 2:14 am
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: Teaware B&W Appreciation
- Replies: 328
- Views: 490907
- Thu Aug 17, 2023 12:34 am
- Forum: Black Tea
- Topic: What Black Are You Drinking
- Replies: 704
- Views: 599403
Re: What Black Are You Drinking
Just my little tea corner in my place. It's nothing fancy but I like the ritual of smelling, weighing, and brewing the leaves. Just some basic Twinings Earl Grey with Bergamot. ./download/file.php?id=14135 Looks cozy! I too have my roots in Twinings loose leaf Earl Grey. I just wish that local shop...
- Thu Jun 15, 2023 12:51 am
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: "Neutral" Clays
- Replies: 29
- Views: 30270
Re: "Neutral" Clays
[...] This kind of discussion ultimately needs to be grounded on something we all agree can be defined as neutral - a kind of reference standard. And then everything else can be compared to that standard. I guess the international standard tasting cup may be the closest to that. I wasn't aware of s...
- Tue May 23, 2023 9:05 am
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: Assassin's Teapot
- Replies: 2
- Views: 10941
Re: Assassin's Teapot
@mbanu thanks for the enlightenment!
Yeah I don't imagine them to be all too convenient. Then again neither is brewing loose leaf if you ask a random person
So anyway theoretically there might be some serious examples still in thrift stores etc.
Yeah I don't imagine them to be all too convenient. Then again neither is brewing loose leaf if you ask a random person

So anyway theoretically there might be some serious examples still in thrift stores etc.