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I have a lot of trouble with customs as well, I just keep that added cost in mind when buying, if it goes through good, if it gets caught at least I was expecting it :cry: Whenever possible to keep it under the ~20eu threshold (includes shipping) it's exempt. Avoid fedex and similar services like th...

Opened my bag of aoi asamushi from ocha, really nice change of pace from the 2 fukamushi I had before (sae and yutaka midori)
So far it's been 3 for 3 on the teas I saw reccomended in the shincha thread

Had some 2018 Rou Gui from lazycat, great balanced tea but I've been a bit under the weather lately so couldnt taste all it has to offer.

So I finally succumbed to peer pressure and decided to get a japanese teapot :lol: Back handle pot from Tsuchihira Eiichi via Artistic Nippon, it's listed at 140ml, probably closer to 110 usable, great for solo drinking Was in need of a pot capable of brewing fukamushi, previously I was using one of...

Drank some of lazycattea's zheng shan xiao zhong yesterday, been craving this tea ever since I had a sample a year ago before he opened the store.
Very smooth and pleasant and a different profile from most hongcha ive had, even other zsxz

Finished my bag of sae midori, had the yutaka midori today, quite different but just as good, I can get used to drinking sencha every day like this thinking of picking up the aoi next, since I i got these two based on the shincha order topic and thats the next on the list

Where do you live that it took that long for your order. Portugal, sadly tea in general has been a problem regarding customs, not just the waiting part, but the tax part, its adding up to becoming real expensive in relation to the value of the tea. But ive learned my lesson, with o-cha it isnt too ...

My o-cha order finally arrived after customs took a whole month to sort the damn thing, enjoying some sae midori, wait was worth it, still new at this but been getting good results even when brewing carelessly

Realized they sell through ig, they have 2 pages and I had been looking at the wrong one
https://instagram.com/potterystudionosa ... 3wms4npwv0

Sometimes Gallery Daunjae has some. And a few others to pick from. Ordering was easy and painless, good and fast service. Also seems to me that cross inspiration is quite heavy among Korean potters, so a lot of them use similar styles and methods, so if you are not hung up on Seong Il... Thats true...

Beautiful pieces in this thread, have been looking at Seong-Il pots for a while, does anyone know how one would procure one nowadays, it seems the cone9 website hasnt been updated for about a year, tea urchin sells a couple but they're not exactly for me.

I am by no means a conossieur, usually get it from a local store so I'm stuck with what they decide to stock each spring come FF time, last year it was monteviot and stendhal, this year it was risheehat. Best one so far was probably stendhal but I assume my local store doesnt exactly get the best po...

If an hour or more will pass between infusions, I spread the wet tea out on a plate to get air. I have often found liquid in a pot that I thought had been emptied of fluids and even found pearls holding liquid inside. I do this to avoid bitterness or whatever else can ruin future infusions. I have ...

Stephen wrote: ↑

Sun Aug 26, 2018 11:06 am

I've seen plenty of those, usually in older cakes of sheng or shou. It's from those big woven plastic bags that are used to carry mao cha and tea I think!

+1 see them all the time, have a cake that's just filled with them

Bok wrote: ↑

Wed Aug 22, 2018 2:43 am

I have some identical ones and they all tested positive for lead leaching. The 3M tester was bright red, so not a small amount!

Even in the ones with glazed white insides?
I use some 70s/80s Macau stuff on occasion, might be time to test them