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  • Adventures in loose puerh

    They come in bags, jars, boxes, cases.... loose puerh come in all shape and sizes, and they are notoriously hard to identify if you are only looking at the dry leaves. What is this, for example? Even without the prob…

  • Making a dent in my stash

    I literally haven't had tea the "proper" way for almost a month now. It's rather frightening, actually. I finally have cleaned out a few of the tasks I have to do, and hopefully starting tomorrow, will have at least a …

  • Drinking puerh

    Now I finally understand why people thought it was crazy to buy whole cakes, bricks, or whatever, for personal consumption. Instead, they preferred to buy loose tea, or tea that was broken up by the seller in advance. …

  • Cooked puerh!

    I was fishing around in my box full of weird stuff, samples, leftovers, and that kind of thing, and among them I found this If I remember correctly, this is a sample from Aaron Fisher. I cannot for the life of me rem…

  • Nor Sun puerh

    I saw this in a Chinese market yesterday. I actually opened the can to look, and thought it smelled wet stored. Couldn't resist The leaves look nondescript -- wet stored, for sure (from the smell). Nannuo (that's…

  • Music and tea

    I opened this up today to drink, finally, after it's been sitting around for months and traveled with me. Action Jackson packed it in Shanghai. It's a cooked tea that she wanted me to try. It's surprisingly sturdy a…

  • "Impressions"

    Today I went out for tea with Y, who's my friend L's business partner. Y's from Taiwan, so he has some friends here. I went to where one such friend opens a (non-tea related) store and had some tea with them. We didn'…

  • 70s cooked puerh

    Unlike Davelcorp's sample yesterday, some of my samples are distinctly un-labeled, and I'm never really sure whose tea it is, when I neglected to label them and it's been a year since I looked. Today's tea was one such …

  • Two cooked samples

    I went to the tea market today, but didn't accomplish what I wanted, and basically didn't drink any tea. So I got home, and decided to drink some cooked samples I got from Teacuppa thanks to their generous offer of tea …

  • Cooked loose puerh from Lam Kie Yuen

    When I went to Bonham Strand a few days ago I bought a little loose puerh from Lam Kie Yuen. The owner of the place, who is a very kind old gentleman with a lot of knowledge of the tea business, described this tea as ha…

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