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All right, thanks people! I guess then that the only thing that differentiates 90s zini from 90s "heini" is the amount of manganese oxide and other additives that was mixed with the clay ; meaning there are additives anyway. Puts things into perspective... maybe heinis are not so bad after all. And ...

Help from the community... ! I bought this pot a few years ago from Chawang. It is supposed to be a late 90s F2/5 "dark zini". So it is not sold as heini, but the clay is still mush darker than 70s and 80s zini, at least in my experience. I've read that the factories around this time used to add man...

Japanese qingxin oolong from thés-du-japon. Quite good and really interesting to see this cultivar grown in Japan! It's got some of the grassiness of lower elevation baozhongs, but also a intense spiceness which I hadn't encountered before with this cultivar, something in the lines of cinnamon and a...

And what about these nice clay plates? Careful what you include in the picture

Wow, this thread is a nice surprise. I've had the chance to travel to Hong Kong a few times and Hung Chong Tai TC might just be my favorite teashop over there! Rents are really high in HK and a lot of the teashops seem to be tourist traps, but this one is located on Bonham Strand in a part of the ci...

I can only answer one part of that last question, and with a modern zini pot at that, but I've had a couple of thinner, high roast Da Hong Paos recently that I've enjoyed brewing in zini. Yes, the pot mutes the high notes a tad, but it also thickens the broth, tones down the roast a little, and mak...

W2T No.2 Rougui! Intense cassia aroma and sweet aftertaste.
Brewing in a 60 ml jianshui pot. I've had good results so far with yancha in jianshui pots ; they seem to give body but not mute much, and most of them have a really fast pouring time.

Cheers!

Hi people! Playing with a cute pot I got on my last trip to Taipei (Taipei tea art shop near Yongkang street if I remember correctly) 100 ml, supposedly 90s F1 hongni. Got it at a discount due to the hairline on the lid (see close up picture) I mostly use it for roasted / aged oolongs. Would be curi...

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Any thoughts? Did you experiment with niangao clay?

And here is a green label niangao clay pot which I got from Emmett. I'm quite happy with it ; it definitively has a mutening effect, though subtle. - Clay type. Niangao, medium fired. - Size of pot. 85 ml. - What year/decade the pot was made. Green label ; 80s. - If the pot is thin-walled, medium, o...

With pictures of the seals :

Here are some of my most "interesting " pots (i.e. not bought from mainstream vendors). First is a pot I bought in Hong Kong on Bonham Strand: - Clay type. I guess some sort of hongni mixed with sand, even though the lady sold it as zhuni. High fired. - Size of pot. 90ml. - What year/decade the pot ...

Hi everybody. I've been reading threads on this forum for a while, and I'm happy to finally join it! How long have you been drinking tea? Tea has always been in my life, but I have only discovered the world of chinese and taiwanese teas a couple years ago. What kind of tea do you drink? Mostly puer ...