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But when you look at where they are sourcing their Yancha, often the very prized micro-terroirs, the prices don’t seem that off-market. Just seems to me an assessment of the tea itself is necessary to pass judgment, rather than making assumptions and inferences based on geography and real estate. I...

East Village is relatively cheap for Manhattan :) But how does this relate to the quality of the tea? If it is good/premium yancha, I am willing to pay a local vendor with a physical store. A $2/g tea in Manhattan is everywhere else’s $.75-1.00/g tea. But when you look at where they are sourcing th...

I’ve been there a few times but I don’t remember their yancha being that expensive. Most of their stuff was around $1/g which is cheaper than places like Tea Drunk. Chadrinkincat I think I asked about Zhengyan stuff and they offered me a really expensive Ma Tou Yan/“horsemeat” tea—may well have bee...

For those of you in the New York area, these guys also stock yancha with elaborate origin claims and prices to match (although I imagine closed for the time being): https://www.yelp.com/biz/lc-tea-trading-inc-new-york I’ve been there a few times but I don’t remember their yancha being that expensiv...

For those of you in the New York area, these guys also stock yancha with elaborate origin claims and prices to match (although I imagine closed for the time being):

https://www.yelp.com/biz/lc-tea-trading-inc-new-york

Yinchen appears to have an IG post about the clay:

Youzi wrote: ↑

Fri Apr 17, 2020 11:15 am

The original Zhuni is however, Zhaozhuang zhuni.

this is my understanding too

Both of those teas you just mentioned are claimed to be “Zhengyan” as well, despite costing less than $.50 per gram. Is the consensus here that all of these vendors (including Wuyi Origin and TheTea.pl, which folks here seem to like) are just lying about the source of their tea? Or are there differ...

@mafoofan to your point, this video from GTH (depicting Master Zhou from Wuxing Shan Fang) suggests that for a ranked master, they will not even fire a teapot that has any imperfections:

FWIW, I've had one of the #1 clay CJF pots from EoT for about 5 years now, and it's seen pretty heavy use, but I've had no issues with the spout chipping or anything like that.

In terms of bang for your buck - i am certainly enjoying wuyiorigin Mei Zhan and Qi Lan, which are two of their budget offerings. I think they compare well to their higher grade. The higher grade does show in their unique profiles, body, longevity, but the budget are in no way lacking for potent fl...

Anyone have experience with this vendor?

https://thechatong.com/

They claim to offer Zhengyan tea, and the prices seem pretty decent!

What do you all think of these? http://jingteashop.com/pd-yixing-xiao-pin-set.cfm They are in convenient sizes and supposedly from 90s-early 2000s pin-zini. At almost $200, it may be hard to justify getting these instead of F1 or EoT private order pots, but would be interested to hear others' though...

Has this been used for any particular kind of tea?

steanze wrote: ↑

Fri Mar 16, 2018 5:11 pm

70s qsn is decidedly better than both.

You mean something like this?

http://2088taiwan.com//index.php?route= ... duct_id=73