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How is this any different from facebook/etsy/etc. but for tea?

I recalled having tea while listening a piece that qualifies as noise music, not the kind i up for usually, that begun with the whole spectrum crammed with stuff, though progressing later to some kind of cathartic moment - went so fine with the tea. Though i could imagine it looking pretty unusual o...

Nice pot stand you have there, OCTO , sure beats all those stoneware dishes =). wave_code , my love for experimental music has roots in following some Bristol dance music scene, rwdfdw, moods radio and the likes - folks like Best available technology, Broshuda, Bokeh versions label and so much more ...

I'm using a thermos to have a stock of cooked water for a session, hence mostly quieter music works fine here. Weird sound landscapes, ambient passages and recordings of nature are welcome if rare guests - i'm easily get carried away by music, so it's hard to keep those activities in delicate balanc...

@Stephen, unless It's already too late to ask, would you mind sharing the source of that zhang xiang cake? Anyway it sounds like you had a nice party there, at least accounts of several pus in a row always puts a happy smile onto my face!

Welcome to the lair of liu an smugglers imperviously disguised as an all around tea forum,@Andrew S! Love the way they got you hooked up on tea, like most things tea, can be as simple as effective and beautiful all the while.

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Sat Jan 30, 2021 2:19 pm

Have you purchased one of these cups?

Nope, not my thing really. Though some of their jian zhan cups had quite an interesting almost holographic effect.

I've treated myself to some EoT's farmer style liu bao yesterday and had to get back to my daily drinker, Duoteli landscape box from 2012 today, as with every session of fine LB i'm risking to lose the ability to glean at least some bits of pleasure from the austere factory produce. There is no pine...

m2193 , it's called resetting or deep cleaning and it's been discussed here - the search will have it i suppose. But you don't necessarily have to follow that blindly. Just try brewing sheng puer with it and see if you'll notice any remains of the oolongs in aroma or taste. And even then, i'd proba...

It's real winter mode here, hence i decided to try the 90s (1995 iirc) white label shou tuo i got from EoT in the last BF gift galore. Appropriate disclaimer, i rarely drink shou and first time such an old one. Guess now i see what good settling through time can do to shou. It misses a bit somewhere...

I tried a bit of 2005 Four Gold Coins liu bao from EoT, mostly to have a better point of reference and find it really good. Had tons of camphor - a good deal similar to the the 2003 Zhang Xiang CNNP cakes from the same folks. I'd could just stop describing it flavor wise really, there where couple s...

Such (or similar?) cups had been seen making it to Yann Art Gallery lately.

faj, those shuipings seem to have walls on the thinner side, which might be not ideal with heat loving teas. I have posted previously on why I think thick walls will probably mean a lower infusion temperature except in specific conditions. @faj, thanks a ton for speaking some thermo dynamic sense i...

@Maerskian, i was speaking about The Chinese Tea Shop. They claim to have couple baskets from 90s and one antique, without a time stamp to it. (along with 80s Ju LUn Zhu )

I'll ask Länggass about their liu an provenance, but it didn't seem to my inexperienced eye as having been through wet storage. Thought it looked and felt too green to my liking still. I've set my tipping point at dozen years. Previous century baskets are quite pricey at Chinese tea shop (north of $...