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I had some wet stored loose tea from Ying Kee in Hong Kong today. And while drinking it, I couldn’t help but wonder what all the fuss about dry storage is. Ok, I know, good, well aged dry storage tea … Continue reading
Tag Archives: aged puerh
I drank some of the Jabbok loose puerh today. The claim, when I bought it, was that it is 30 years. It didn’t really look 30 years, nor did it really taste like what I normally thought of as a … Continue reading
On the menu today: This is a piece of an alleged 60s Guangyun Gong from a tea friend in Hong Kong. He bought it as broken pieces, and the guy who sold it to him wasn’t sure what it was … Continue reading
Another day with tea with L today. On the plate was, first, a Mengku cake from 2000 or so that was traditionally stored. Surprisingly, it’s really quite good. Very aromatic, smooth, sweet, nice, and fragrant. Not a lot of the … Continue reading
Today was a big event…. tea tasting with L, J, and Bearsbearsbears. We met up before lunch, had two teas (one Menghai Bada Shan, one Zhongcha Bada Shan) and then got some food, after which we headed over to L’s … Continue reading
A pretty good day drinking tea with L and J (the reader of my blog in Shanghai) today. We went to the home of one of L’s many, many friends. That friend, a certain Mr. Y, is a lover of … Continue reading
I went to drink tea with L again today, who has a shop in Maliandao and a vast array of friends. Everytime I go out with him I’m meeting someone new, which is quite interesting in and of itself. When … Continue reading
One of the things that distinguish a Hong Kong tea vendor from a mainland (at least Beijing) tea vendor is that Hong Kong tea vendors tend to be very imprecise about the provenance of their tea. Most vendors in Hong … Continue reading
Seems like the internet is back to normal faster than I thought. Give it another day, and I can probably start uploading pictures again. Right now it’s still quite slow (think…. 28.8k slow with lots of packetloss) I went to … Continue reading
I went to the old, wet storage tea store today to pick up the tong of tea I ordered back in the summer. Now that I think about it, I’m overpaying them for it. However, a search through Taobao showed … Continue reading