uncleiroh - I would be careful posting pictures outside of this community...to some it may look like some sort of a meth lab.... 
Thank you for sharing ...I wish people would post the places where they made the purchase....just so that some of us could get started on collecting some stuff like this....
Thank you for sharing ...I wish people would post the places where they made the purchase....just so that some of us could get started on collecting some stuff like this....
thank you all for your comments! i do love having a tea bar. it sat more or less unused for many years (just a couple of dusty liquor bottles on the counter and mail in the sink i never used!), but now it has new life and gets constant daily use. it's nice not to have to go into another room and leave whatever else i'm doing when i want a pot of tea, which is just often enough that having to go into another room is actually a bother
zac-- that is indeed a venture bros. logo. no particular tea connection, it just wound up there. i love that show!
pentox-- you've got my shopping habits all mapped out. i'm also lucky enough to live near one of lupicia's US stores, and i got that set for almost nothing as part of a promotion. den's is also near enough that stuff i order is here practically as soon as the confirmation e-mail arrives. and that sugimoto sencha really is great stuff, isn't it? i think it was actually your blog that led me to them in the first place, so i am in your debt...
triox & inspectoring-- all i can say is, you oughta see the rest of the place. the japanese ideal of spareness is obviously not one i can emulate, but any garage sale we'd have would likely scare the hell out of the neighbors.
thanks again to everyone who posted
zac-- that is indeed a venture bros. logo. no particular tea connection, it just wound up there. i love that show!
pentox-- you've got my shopping habits all mapped out. i'm also lucky enough to live near one of lupicia's US stores, and i got that set for almost nothing as part of a promotion. den's is also near enough that stuff i order is here practically as soon as the confirmation e-mail arrives. and that sugimoto sencha really is great stuff, isn't it? i think it was actually your blog that led me to them in the first place, so i am in your debt...
triox & inspectoring-- all i can say is, you oughta see the rest of the place. the japanese ideal of spareness is obviously not one i can emulate, but any garage sale we'd have would likely scare the hell out of the neighbors.
thanks again to everyone who posted
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So I went back to a local teashop and I saw two beauties that I just had to buy...and it didn't help that they were a bargain at $25 for each one.
I think I'm going use this one for Dan Cong Oolong...
I was thinking of this one for my Black teas, but I'm not quite sure yet...I might want to save this one for Pu'er. So I'm putting this one aside for now and I won't season it yet.
I think I'm going use this one for Dan Cong Oolong...
I was thinking of this one for my Black teas, but I'm not quite sure yet...I might want to save this one for Pu'er. So I'm putting this one aside for now and I won't season it yet.
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The little blue pot is so cute! Nowadays in Taiwan it's a trend that they make little porcelain teapots of the same shapes as traditional zi sha pots. They are cute, and can be of very vivid color, and unlike zi sha, you don't have to worry about authenticity problem!battra wrote:
This is what I use when I drink oolong tea (well, not both pots at the same time.) The pots are from Taiwan, the cup is Japanese.