Show off your Pu!!!!!!!

[Drax]

Sadly, I have no melon. Alas, avert your eyes, and cover the ears of the children!

Sal -- I think I've set it for 68% relative humidity, or maybe 70%. Every time I open the cabinet, it's usually ~66. It's been rather nice here the last few weeks (75-80F) and also rainy, so I've occasionally opened the door and let it climb to 75+

Yes indeed, it appears it's as good as keeping OUT humidity as it is at maintaining it inside the box. Maybe the entire system still hasn't equilibrated...

[JAS-eTea Guy]

Drax -
What a great setup!
Thanks for sharing your pics.

[hooksie]

Drax you put my pu collection to shame.

[Trioxin]

Hey Tony, whats your opinions on the Nan Zhao Yu. I've been considering ordering a couple.

[tacobell]

http://i576.photobucket.com/albums/ss20 ... closet.jpg

The bing on the far right is my latest purchase.

http://i576.photobucket.com/albums/ss20 ... 04Bing.jpg

It's a 2004 that I picked up at Seven Cups here in Denver. Not bad for $47, or so I think...first impressions have been good.

Here is a link

http://www.sevencups.com/tea_shop/produ ... 281&page=2

[tony shlongini]

Triox- haven't tried it yet. Too many pu's, too few days to drink them.

Taco- try bracketing your picture's address with [img ]......[/img] or just hit the Img button on the post a reply box to directly display your images.

Shelf is starting to look good!

[Drax]

Mmmmm, taco pu.

So for those squeamish of stomach, I advise not to look at the following sequence of pictures.



Ahh, my order from Nadacha. Hmmm, box looks crushed, oh and it's been opened for customers and poorly resealed. Great... well, it was so bad looking on the outside, I knew I should take pictures.



Yep... so sad. Two bings split in half, under the stack (not shown) that came in a sack.



Better shot of the two broken bings.



At least the rest of the stuff made it unharmed. Although I'm sure they tried. Who knows how crushed everything is...



Oh neat! One of those bing-sacks. I've seen em before, but I got one with my order. Very cool... so... what's in it? (:



Hurray! The rest of the bings made it in one piece. Wait a minute, these are pristine.

This is where it finally occurs to me that some AH at customs pulled those two bings out of the sack, opened them, up and BROKE THEM IN TWO. What the F$$$? Seriously? This is FOOD. I hope they wear gloves. That's just DISGUSTING.

*sigh*



Never DHL again...

[Drax]

Well, confirmation from Nada that all the bings did indeed start in the bag. *shiver*

But what I really wanted to add here is that all of the tea smell WONDERFUL.

I mean seriously, it's sitting behind me right now as I type and waves of aroma waft over me. *drooooooooool*

[shogun89]

Seriously, WHAT THE FU*K gives them the right to do this? This makes me so angry, no amount of tea poetry will calm me. If I could only meet the people who did this. . . .
Its one thing to open it and inspect it, but to be inconsiderate enough to rip everything apart, and literally throw it back in the box and tape it up really angers me.

[entropyembrace]

Don't you know the drug cartels are smuggling crack cocaine across the border in pu-erh tea bings...

[pb2q]

That's just awful. I commiserate, and in fact I was also recently stung: I found out last week that a package with a few 90s NanJian tuos was (most likely) stolen right from my doorstep. The thought of some jerk stealing the package, then tossing it in the trash, makes me sick. I would honestly feel a bit better if I knew that the thief was a tea geek.

Also groaning because I just made a very similar order from Nada last night...

Folks please get signature confirmation on your packages containing irreplaceable tea.

[Deleted User #17777]

I use a PO box - no matter where I am, or what time it is, if it's raining or 110 degrees, my delivery is safe. Or, (I work at a small company) get delivered to work (UPS).

Generally, overseas deliveries come via mail. (SAL) - So for me the PO Box is great.

For a modest fee - even those mailbox stores might be able to get your packages. If you use Paypal, make sure you get your delivery address as the PO Box, work, or mailbox store ahead of time. Some vendors won't send to an unverified address.

[heatwaves]

Drax, sorry to hear the awful news.

Clearly those broken Nada cakes are ruined. Since they're now worthless, I grudgingly volunteer to taken them off your hands. Feel free to pm me for my address.

[shogun89]

Drax, sorry to hear the awful news.

Clearly those broken Nada cakes are ruined. Since they're now worthless, I grudgingly volunteer to taken them off your hands. Feel free to pm me for my address.

hahahaha, so true.

[Trioxin]

Sorry the ransacked your order. I dread the day customs gets ahold of one of my tea orders.

Wonder how they would have handled a couple of iron compressed cakes?