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@Bok has inspired me in turn.

My usual yan cha pot, around 65mL, so, slightly too big for Bok it would seem.

Brewing a high roast tie luo han, also from EoT.

The colours are hard to get right on a day like this, though. Should look a touch more red than orange...

Andrew

That's a beautiful pot; even just the texture of the lid is lovely.

Old small zhu ni teapots look like they were always destined for the best yan cha.

Andrew

Yes, you have a good eye for pots... Did the shape of the handle give it away? I usually prefer pots in the 60mL to 80mL range for yan cha, but I like having smaller ones for when I want to try a couple of different teas in the day. This one is getting easier to use as I get to know it better. When ...

Enjoying a Rui Quan Jin Suo Shi from Essence of Tea on a very wet day.

Medium roasted, but none the worse for it.

Andrew

After LeoFox mentioned that teapot experience, I decided to wipe the dust off of my gai wan and try brewing tea in it, decanting into a fairness cup, pouring half of that into a pot, just to see what happens... I'm sure that some part of me thought that if I managed to disprove any teapot mysticism,...

I was wondering if anyone might proffer any thoughts about this teapot, and in particular the clay... Roughly 100mL, seven-hole filter, zhong guo yi xing stamp. I seem to recall it being advertised as a Factory 2 ben shan lü ni clay from the 90s or 2000s, but I'll leave it to wiser minds to agree or...

Might I suggest that the search for additive-free clay is an aspect of the search for ‘good clay’, but that ‘good clay’ tends to mean different things to different people? Good clay might mean clay without additives, or clay from a specific site which hasn’t been blended with unknown clays, or clay ...

Thank you @polezaivsani and @Pants404

The concept of "liu an smugglers" deserves to be turned into a movie.

And I look forward to acquiring enough tea wares in the future to fill up Australia, but my wallet has just run away out of fear for its safety.

Hello, Long-time stalker, first-time member. How long have you been drinking tea? I’ve been drinking tea obsessively since a short trip to Hong Kong and Taiwan in about 2008 sparked my interest. Unfortunately, that spark only ignited a fire in me after I came back home, and I had to ferret about thr...