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.m. wrote: ↑

Mon Feb 03, 2020 7:17 pm

Bok wrote: ↑

Mon Feb 03, 2020 6:44 pm

Adding oxygen by slightly lifting the lid while pouring is another thing that somehow improves some brews. Again, an unsolved case.

Interesting. Must try. Thanks.

Don’t blame me for broken lids though...

faj i would also be curious to understand the science behind it, for now I can just attest that something happens and that doing so is beneficial. Even better results are achieved when stored in porcelain jars for also unknown reasons. Long and short term storage. Adding oxygen by slightly lifting ...

twta500 no worries, no hard feelings :) If the Alishan was very bitter, then I’m afraid your brewing must have been off... too much leaf, or brewed too long, or brewed in the wrong vessel, lots of factors could be the culprit. But even a not so good Alishan should not be bitter if brewed right. Don...

Usually, I’d start with a thank you.

Then I’d google those names, who knows maybe someone among the few millions of people on earth has written something about those tea names...

As a general rule, the gift boxes from China are very often not very good teas, it is more about "giving face" than giving good tea. You never know. The Dongding box looks like it could be something, could be out of one of the competitions. Some of the single tins from China, especially the older on...

@twta500 would help if you posted actual pictures of them. Otherwise some of the description are not saying anything about the tea, I assume there will be Chinese characters on them as well? Sorry just realised there were links to the images, my bad...

The tea house looks wonderful, thanks for sharing I send everyone who’s in Taipei and doesn’t have much time to see the rest of the country there, it’s well worth the trip! Their aged tea is not bad I remember, Gaoshan as well. Of course you pay more than having tea at home, but that’s the price of...

Production and logistics issues are a given. Yet a sort of contamination boycott will make things more likely worse than better for the population.

I don’t seem to remember there was any contamination of products during the SARS outbreak, was there? And that one had a much higher fatality rate.

aet wrote: ↑

Sat Feb 01, 2020 9:08 pm

Sorry guys, I still don't get it. What does it have to do with tea?
Do I miss something between the lines here?

I guess the worry is contamination of tea leaves/packaging by the virus... Very far fetched and alarmist if you ask me.

Jiufen tea house. A bit pricey, but the tea house is truly spectacular, especially in the setting of Jiufen. Any photos of the tea house and setting? The tea and table setting are lovely! If you type jiufen teahouse you should find a lot of images on IG or else. It’s the only decent tea house up th...

Although I am not even remotely knowledgeable in either type, the (decent) Oriental Beauty and Darjeeling teas I have tasted share an aromatic aspect I do not like much either which I have understood to be the bug-bitten flavor. To me, it cannot be mistaken for anything else. It was entirely missin...

Rickpatbrown Guifei is not exactly the same as OB, similar, but not quite. Real OB is excruciatingly expensive, also because it’s en vogue at the moment among the high brow tea people in Taiwan. I had the luck accompanying someone sampling OB, tasting an OB that retails in Taiwan at 40000NT, roughl...

Yes that seems a more sensible way of describing teas. Another problem is that even common flavours are not the same for everyone: for example a European pear has a fundamentally different taste than a Japanese one, or plums is another good example, asian plums have almost nothing in common with the...

“people who bloviate about how many more different aromas they identify in, say, a wine or a tea, are just using their imaginations.” This quote I find interesting as I’m always mystified how some have endless rows of flavours they think to detect in a given tea. I always suspected that the majorit...

Not even mentioning the last thing the average Chinese needs is the world buying less of their products, adding economic worries to the existing ones.