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What did you think of his teas? Haven’t had a lot of Dancong, but I found his teas pretty decent so far and at reasonable prices. Big plus for not trying anything sketchy either. Most of the other shops around there look not very trustworthy. to be honest i have been there once in my life around 2 ...

lol i know that shop, is the guangdong guy who smokes the pipe, he's got tiny teaware haha. I would go there more often if it wasn't for the smoking he was nice. What did you think of his teas? Haven’t had a lot of Dancong, but I found his teas pretty decent so far and at reasonable prices. Big plu...

Bok, sorry we couldn't meet up in Taipei! We are off to Shanghai tomorrow for a couple days of 'vacation' before heading back to the States, and would love to know which shop you went to. My experiences with Dan Cong so far have generally not been phenomenal, so I'd love to taste some good stuff. N...

Thank you for your detailed reply. During our next LA tea club tasting at my house, I’ll set aside time for us to compare various Rougui I have here, and will save 1st cup of each also to compare at the end. With both of your Rougui I did set aside 1st cup, and was amazed how much better and richer...

by the way, I realize the quality that makes zhengyan rougui special might be hard to recognize. it is a strong flavor called yanyun. with enough experience drinking yancha however this can be recognized and regardless if liked or disliked is what makes certain tea special. banyan teas can have yan...

they don't really care where the tea is coming from ... being obsessed with zhengyan is foolish yes now that is something i can agree with! there is no point in drinking tea from xxx location, it is not a name that matters, it doesnt matter if the tea "is real or fake" as we often see people caring...

by the way, I realize the quality that makes zhengyan rougui special might be hard to recognize. it is a strong flavor called yanyun. with enough experience drinking yancha however this can be recognized and regardless if liked or disliked is what makes certain tea special. I was under the impressi...

I am aware that they are operating out of China, but for sure they have at least one foreign owner and are only selling to Westerners. Ironic designs with skeletons is not something with which you can sell food related things in the Chinese market. Says as much on the website: "...Living in China s...

Having lots of fun with this bag that a friend gave me. Seems to be a RouGui. Anyone can say what the package says or where is it coming from? 8E22EC52-0942-4274-9634-E8C8A353E3AD.jpeg it says Wusandi, its a village in the Banyan area of Wuyishan. I've been there its quite a beautiful place and env...

i guess this year i will be close to 3-400g of various greens. mostly not from famous areas but nice for daily drinking although got 3-4 a bit more special in 50g samples. waiting for houkui to be ready and that will be the last stab to my wallet. About bit more special ones I quite enjoyed a biluoc...

Thank you very much for sharing this. What I take from what you say is that aged yancha (in contrast to old yancha) is usually priced accordingly. I do have to say, that I have once bought some OK RouGui, nothing fancy, that was not very good to my stomach and I decided to try and let it rest a lit...

in the past, i have gotten good longjing (and other cn greens) from www.lifeinteacup.com also, lazycattea ( octopus on this forum) is offering some that might be good: side note unrelated to lazy cat tea: Due to some requests I decided to help people to purchase two chinese teas sourced and sold by...

this is very common and perfectly normal. you will simply answer your own questions if you drink and try more tea. most yancha in fact gets a very boring chen flavor after 3-4 years, not so interesting to drink and imo tastes the worst , loses its special characters. only the exceptional teas or the...

reroasting the tea is a good way to salvage what is going bad or has the “return to green" flavor but i would be very careful in doing it. I use a kind of large machine that's specifically for tea roasting and adjust settings based on the tea but if you dont and you roast at too high temperature or ...

your storage is not airtight enough, too much humidity = sour

try adding more layers of plastic bags and seal better or even better: buy only enough tea to drink when is good so you won't end up ruining it