Random pics of piled tea
Posted: Thu Nov 19, 2020 4:25 pm
Just a couple days ago found myself with a digital camera on my hands... a rare event ( yes! it's 2020 ) . An ancient piece of technology, a 15yr old ( maybe older ? ) budget digital camera in the hands of somebody not used to take pictures, so bear with it.
@pedant & @powersnacks ( hello Stan ) wanted to see some pics of my storage even though i made clear it's currently a disaster... need to order some custom furniture soon but since some months ago have bought (much) more tea than i planned to store, therefore tea has been invading everything slowly, had to get creative sometimes... it's total chaos, more Kg of tea is coming... and desperately need space, keep this in mind as well.
It's just a few pics, barely everything because when i was about to shoot the biggest departments noticed it didn't make sense, cakes or big bags are inside carboard boxes so that's essentially all you'd see, then there's the oolongs department where all you'd see is the front row of 50g bags piled up covering everything... same on other deparments.
While i don't find the time to get the new cabinet & reorganize everything as it should ( by the end of this year should finally have a clear idea of how much space i might need ), here's an appetizer .
Horrible pics, you will only see the frontal stacks not the background piled cakes with tuos/smaller cakes/bricks thrown in the middle... but it's something .
There we go:
Some stacks of huang pian "gushu" Mansa bricks, a couple 2015 Bulang "columns" ( the one opened is what i'm drinking these days, loving it more & more ) ; on the right stack there's Fangmingyuan cakes, with 2008 Bama on top ( getting better on each new session )
The shu deparment; Phoenix tuo with the hygrometer on top, one CNNP brick below, loose leaf shu from TeaGuru, more low-grade loose leaf shu ( Dim Sum-like , nice to drink with some meals, not brilliant, not bad... affordable as well ) , not visible... plenty cakes from the usual factories ( Some nice Dayi cakes - thanks to @mrmopu for the tip last year - , Xiaguan, etc... ) , 1Kg CNNP brick wrapped in bamboo leaf, more tuos, some more bricks, the world famous CrimsonLotus mini shrooms, tibetan market 250g shroom-shaped shou....
More sheng.
That carboard box is choked full with plenty - VERY - generous samples for me to taste, from HK stored 2011 factory anniversary cakes, to 2003 Laos bamboo sheng (>__>), some '99 HK stored factory sheng, gushu dragon balls, giant samples ( close to 40g ) , mystery samples for me to guess ... lots & lots of 'em .
Holding that box : a dozen of 2015 Bulang columns ( bought one - the one that's open -, tasted it, decided to buy a dozen of it ) , on the right another one ( 14 colums total in the end ) over a pile of cakes, one tong of smaller cakes... and more stacks of cakes on the back that can't be seen from that angle as usual .
Tea out of place. With no more space inside the cabinet had to remove all kind of kitchenware and place tea - temporarily - here. Mostly smaller cakes ( 250/200-100g ) , one 1Kg Kunlu Huang Pian brick, plenty tuos .
That's it for the time being . All you'd see on the biggest departments would be a huge or big box covering everything... choke full with tea ; other departments are choke full with bags of loose leaf teas ( mostly oolongs ) , not exactly funny to look at .
Not sure if this kind of pics can help... probably a lesson on how not to do things, focus on storage first-buy later... however it was forced by the circumstances.
@pedant & @powersnacks ( hello Stan ) wanted to see some pics of my storage even though i made clear it's currently a disaster... need to order some custom furniture soon but since some months ago have bought (much) more tea than i planned to store, therefore tea has been invading everything slowly, had to get creative sometimes... it's total chaos, more Kg of tea is coming... and desperately need space, keep this in mind as well.
It's just a few pics, barely everything because when i was about to shoot the biggest departments noticed it didn't make sense, cakes or big bags are inside carboard boxes so that's essentially all you'd see, then there's the oolongs department where all you'd see is the front row of 50g bags piled up covering everything... same on other deparments.
While i don't find the time to get the new cabinet & reorganize everything as it should ( by the end of this year should finally have a clear idea of how much space i might need ), here's an appetizer .
Horrible pics, you will only see the frontal stacks not the background piled cakes with tuos/smaller cakes/bricks thrown in the middle... but it's something .
There we go:
Some stacks of huang pian "gushu" Mansa bricks, a couple 2015 Bulang "columns" ( the one opened is what i'm drinking these days, loving it more & more ) ; on the right stack there's Fangmingyuan cakes, with 2008 Bama on top ( getting better on each new session )
The shu deparment; Phoenix tuo with the hygrometer on top, one CNNP brick below, loose leaf shu from TeaGuru, more low-grade loose leaf shu ( Dim Sum-like , nice to drink with some meals, not brilliant, not bad... affordable as well ) , not visible... plenty cakes from the usual factories ( Some nice Dayi cakes - thanks to @mrmopu for the tip last year - , Xiaguan, etc... ) , 1Kg CNNP brick wrapped in bamboo leaf, more tuos, some more bricks, the world famous CrimsonLotus mini shrooms, tibetan market 250g shroom-shaped shou....
More sheng.
That carboard box is choked full with plenty - VERY - generous samples for me to taste, from HK stored 2011 factory anniversary cakes, to 2003 Laos bamboo sheng (>__>), some '99 HK stored factory sheng, gushu dragon balls, giant samples ( close to 40g ) , mystery samples for me to guess ... lots & lots of 'em .
Holding that box : a dozen of 2015 Bulang columns ( bought one - the one that's open -, tasted it, decided to buy a dozen of it ) , on the right another one ( 14 colums total in the end ) over a pile of cakes, one tong of smaller cakes... and more stacks of cakes on the back that can't be seen from that angle as usual .
Tea out of place. With no more space inside the cabinet had to remove all kind of kitchenware and place tea - temporarily - here. Mostly smaller cakes ( 250/200-100g ) , one 1Kg Kunlu Huang Pian brick, plenty tuos .
That's it for the time being . All you'd see on the biggest departments would be a huge or big box covering everything... choke full with tea ; other departments are choke full with bags of loose leaf teas ( mostly oolongs ) , not exactly funny to look at .
Not sure if this kind of pics can help... probably a lesson on how not to do things, focus on storage first-buy later... however it was forced by the circumstances.