A refreshing Taiwanese surprise! The smell of this rolled oolong tea was smooth, herbal and milky before brewing. The tea soup has a vivid golden-green color and a hint of tanins. Smooth in the mouth, crisp with a fresh peach aftertaste.
My husband found this at home, he probably got it online ages ago. Using google translate it seems to be a Pu’er. Does anyone know more?
Thanks for any help!
Moss around the stone is fake. But the stone is a piece of iron slag from an ancient village in Saudi Arabia.
I live high up in the mountains, at 2000m above sea. Water boils here at 92C or 198F. I just had to calibrate my kettle. I belive this impacts how I brew my tea (Gongfu style) a lot. Slower and lesser extraction maybe. Some flavor/aroma mollecules might not even be activated below 100C. What are your thoughts on this?
My Nanjianh Shi pair. Removed hoarfrost with steel and brass brushes. Keep using hard nylon brush. No gloves. A couple of months of playing and brushing.
My Nanjiang Shi basking in the morning sun. A couple of months if playing and brushing. And yes, I used metal brushes to remove the hoarfrost. No gloves whatsoever.
Zhengqitang Ancient Tree Raw Pu'er from Lincang, Yunnan. Very fresh smell of the tea cake, leaves deep green and attractive. No wash. Wet leaves lightly smell of peach, tea soup is smooth, with tannins that come out at the end as rich sweetness. The best thing for me, is the strong acacia flower aftertaste aroma. I though again that I was going off, but it's really there.
MeiGui FuCha or Rose Fu Brick Tea. Rose petals visible in the cake, give out a delicate fragrance to this tea. I washed it ince and the first steep was the most aromatic. Subsequent steeps had a mellow aroma and no bitterness or astringency. A hint of blackcurrant on the tongue. Weak aftertaste.
BaiLiushi from Fuding. 2016. Did two washes, before the 1st steep. Wet tea has a strong and very pleasant aroma of prunes/blackcurrants. Tea soup is very smooth and develops a prune flavor after the 2nd steep. Very refreshing.
This is my first DaHongPao, apart from one on a Hainan Airways flight from Beijing to Europe. No bitterness, very slight pleasant astringency. An amazing fresh plum/nectarine aftertaste that turned into a full taste of the soup during my 3rd steep.
A delight to roll and a smooth feeling on the hand! And I was told they turn red quickly. In under 2 years!
Mellow taste, only traces of astringency. Beautiful amber color.
Tie Gunanyin from Anxi, Fujian Province. A beautiful green color of the tea soup and a refreshing seaweed taste. Not iverpowering and very pleasant, no traces of biterness. Amazing, light and lasting finish with orchid and floral notes.
Such as the title, the main content of this post is about the product problems of some walnut merchants
First, B3B(Buddha3Bodhi) and Zen Walnut. Their walnuts often appear on top and are sanded with a spatula/angle grinder to remove the yellow tip. As a result, there is a serious mirror surface at the tip, and even a color difference in the oil.(Figure 1~4） Among them, Zen Walnut's carving is very rough, sometimes cutting a plane directly.
Secondly, for some high-priced varieties of walnuts, B3B will adopt micro- sculpture treatment (as shown in the red circle in Figure5). Their purpose is to remove the yellow silk from the walnuts that have come down the tr ee ahead of time.
Third, a merchant's web page display uses Al (or other) decoration. Its walnuts have lost their bottoms, but are still on display.(Figure 6)
Fourth, the community accounts of some brands often embezzle and reprint high-quality walnuts on some platforms in China as shared content. At the same time, they call themselves their own walnuts, please pay attention.(Figure 7）However, after a community friend found out, the content has been deleted. The original text was published in October 2025.
Collectively, they often use poor information to commit fraud. Earn high profits with fairly low-quality walnuts. If you encounter the same problem, you are welcome to contribute to me. I hope that with everyone's efforts, we can purify the international walnut market order, so that interested people can have their favorite pair of walnuts.
Shofeng LongJing from this year is exactly what I needed today!
I found this on RedNote. Google translate. But is this classyficiation real? u/zheyicao