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- Sun Mar 17, 2024 11:57 pm
- Forum: Vendor Discussion & Recommendation
- Topic: Green Tea Vendor Topic
- Replies: 43
- Views: 31091
Re: Green Tea Vendor Topic
ok, then other possibility is that all international payments go trough some separate entity ( could be based in EU ) which takes cut from the payments. The deal between JP owner and the int. payment provider might be that no option in JPY shoudl be available for no JP bank account holder , or somet...
- Sun Mar 17, 2024 9:00 am
- Forum: Vendor Discussion & Recommendation
- Topic: Green Tea Vendor Topic
- Replies: 43
- Views: 31091
Re: Green Tea Vendor Topic
I don't know JPY but CNY is not trade currency ( or how it's properly called ) . Basically if you pay any person in China with your foreign card, the conversion is done on the receiver side ( and so taken from their annual USD income limit ...see more in google ... "Is CNY a restricted currency? " t...
- Sat Mar 16, 2024 9:59 pm
- Forum: Vendor Discussion & Recommendation
- Topic: Green Tea Vendor Topic
- Replies: 43
- Views: 31091
Re: Green Tea Vendor Topic
We had a request from EU customer to pay in euro , saying similar issue with being "overcharged" if paying in USD ( which of course another way of paypal how to make some money ) . There is no direct exchange between EUR and CNY , although it may appear as it is on paypal. But for the moment such a ...
- Tue Feb 27, 2024 9:47 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: importance of $/g ?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 961
Re: importance of $/g ?
It is interesting , because I've never seen wine drinkers doing the same . Like recalculating the $/ml if bottle is differnt than "regular" size. Maybe because most of the wine sell is done offline ? Or wine enthusiasts not counting the cups but considering many other factors ? Sure alcohocis do hav...
- Sat Feb 24, 2024 8:28 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: importance of $/g ?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 961
importance of $/g ?
Seeing some online shops have the feature of price per gram added to the tea products , asking myself a question , how important is that? I understand if comparing 2 similar tea in different sizes ( where the smaller pressed version comes more expensive because the pressing and packing fees are high...
- Fri Feb 16, 2024 6:28 am
- Forum: Blogs, Podcasts, & Vlogs
- Topic: Pottery sourcing ( Huaning & Yuxi )
- Replies: 0
- Views: 472
Pottery sourcing ( Huaning & Yuxi )
Just short read about our recent pottery sourcing trip. I have to admit I couldn't find any interesting "meat" to write about as this was pretty straightforward without any unexpected surprises. Feels like more experienced you are , less exciting it gets. Or maybe I'm just loosing the touch;-) Anywa...
- Tue Jan 16, 2024 7:35 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Boiled tea flavour
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1172
Re: Boiled tea flavour
It is common in some Yunnan villages , boiled or baked first then boil. It does "flatten" the taste in some way. Like if you try Cha Gao shu puer for example , that's the way how tastes boiled shu ( cha gao is made by boiling out / extracting , so it makes sense ) . My wife boils quite often shu , a...
- Tue Jan 09, 2024 7:22 pm
- Forum: Kettles & Heating Elements
- Topic: Electric Kettles
- Replies: 163
- Views: 120864
- Wed Jan 03, 2024 8:54 pm
- Forum: Black Tea
- Topic: Lapsang Souchong
- Replies: 65
- Views: 18933
Re: Lapsang Souchong
I don' trust my memory of customers' preferences. me too. that's why I write all that in my notes. I have full history of our clientele , samples they tried ( notes if any response ..etc. ) , all notes from comunication related to the taste notes. Yet, I recomend only samples first ( so it just hel...
- Tue Jan 02, 2024 8:02 pm
- Forum: Black Tea
- Topic: Lapsang Souchong
- Replies: 65
- Views: 18933
Re: Lapsang Souchong
when the base tea is already top, the smoking can only make it different, not really better I guess.. but it’s so delicious:) ..but as I read somewhere, traditional smoking is becoming a rarity due to low demand.. yep, I feel the same. Yet, I have to say , smoked Lapsang is more appealing to me tha...
- Tue Jan 02, 2024 7:21 pm
- Forum: Black Tea
- Topic: Lapsang Souchong
- Replies: 65
- Views: 18933
Re: Lapsang Souchong
The greatest shortcut is a vendor who understands what a particular customer wants to taste. ..the biggest responsibility ( pressure on vendor ) , in my opinion. I read in one tea book , saying that Good tea vendor remembers the taste of his / her clients . Although I do my best to do so, yet I alw...
- Fri Dec 29, 2023 10:17 pm
- Forum: Fermented Tea
- Topic: What HeiCha are you drinking
- Replies: 562
- Views: 302150
Re: What HeiCha are you drinking
We got cheated from big LB producing TF recently. They claim tea to be like 13y aged but tastes like 2y old shu, not like LB at all ( like literally no basement notes but caramel sweet-sour notes ) . Means like they would have to store it in hermetically sealed storage , because when you get out of ...
- Thu Dec 21, 2023 9:57 pm
- Forum: Travel
- Topic: Red Mark production
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2236
- Thu Dec 14, 2023 7:49 pm
- Forum: Travel
- Topic: Red Mark production
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2236
Red Mark production
just found it funny though. ..at 59:45 time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=s ... yyiOh-5oKc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=s ... yyiOh-5oKc
- Sun Dec 10, 2023 11:43 pm
- Forum: Oolong Tea
- Topic: 100 times roasted oolong
- Replies: 2
- Views: 997
Re: 100 times roasted oolong
Anytime the number 100 is mentioned in Chinese culture (and you know that probably), it just means "a lot of times" Aka 100y old egg, aka 100y business, aka 100y I forgot how long :lol: I don't think someone will roast 100 times, just means they lack the skill to get a good result after less time l...