Show off your Pu!!!!!!!

[apache]

Xing Cha (醒茶) is the process of awakening a tea, which can entail different things, but with the purpose of letting a tea rest for a bit before drinking it. Anyway, MarshalN puts it best here:
http://marshaln.xanga.com/622427471/awakening-a-tea/

PS: Did you get your HK cakes also via Tao Bao?

Thank you for the link.

No, I didn't buy the cakes via Tao Bao, IMHO, buying stuffs from Tao Bao is no easy task.

I bought those cakes from the main branch of Yue Hwa Emporium, in the basement. There I tasted different teas for two days to my heart content before I parted with my money. Might be there are cheaper offer on Tao Bao, but I know that those teas from Yue Hwa are genuine.

[Maitre_Tea]

Xing Cha (醒茶) is the process of awakening a tea, which can entail different things, but with the purpose of letting a tea rest for a bit before drinking it. Anyway, MarshalN puts it best here:
http://marshaln.xanga.com/622427471/awakening-a-tea/

PS: Did you get your HK cakes also via Tao Bao?

Thank you for the link.

No, I didn't buy the cakes via Tao Bao, IMHO, buying stuffs from Tao Bao is no easy task.

I bought those cakes from the main branch of Yue Hwa Emporium, in the basement. There I tasted different teas for two days to my heart content before I parted with my money. Might be there are cheaper offer on Tao Bao, but I know that those teas from Yue Hwa are genuine.

oh, so you bought these cakes in-person in HK. Wow, must have been like a kid in a candy store.

[apache]

Xing Cha (醒茶) is the process of awakening a tea, which can entail different things, but with the purpose of letting a tea rest for a bit before drinking it. Anyway, MarshalN puts it best here:
http://marshaln.xanga.com/622427471/awakening-a-tea/

PS: Did you get your HK cakes also via Tao Bao?

Thank you for the link.

No, I didn't buy the cakes via Tao Bao, IMHO, buying stuffs from Tao Bao is no easy task.

I bought those cakes from the main branch of Yue Hwa Emporium, in the basement. There I tasted different teas for two days to my heart content before I parted with my money. Might be there are cheaper offer on Tao Bao, but I know that those teas from Yue Hwa are genuine.

oh, so you bought these cakes in-person in HK. Wow, must have been like a kid in a candy store.

Yes, it was very nice to try different teas and comparing them to what I was going to buy. I think no matter how much reviews one can read about different teas, there was no substitution of actually tasting them. Now I understand the Chinese saying about pu'erh teas, I think it goes like this: "Drink shu, keep sheng and savour aged tea".

[AdamMY]

Got this order in today, 2 #8582 801's
1 7572 901
1 7532 801

[Maitre_Tea]

Oh look! It's a huge box...and it's from China. Why I wonder what can be inside?



It looks like Santa came earlier this year, and gave me an unexpected surprise this Christmas.



I didn't order much, because I'm merely testing out what vendors are reliable and what products to buy again in bulk. I also bought two travel-size tea sets and a better knife and tuocha pick. The tuo are various '01-'02 non-boxed/boxed jia ji Xiaguan tuocha. The cake is a '02 Shuangjiang Mengku Jing Pin.

I highly recommend using Tao Bao Now. Their service was fast, and it was only slow because the vendors took their sweet time to deliver the stuff to their offices. They packed everything in at least three layers of bubble wrap. Simply amazing. EMS was fast as always, it took 4 days for it to get here from China. Now the difficult *insert sarcasm* task of tasting these bad boys...man, what a hassle

[nicolas]

This has been my favourite 2009 shou so I decided to get a box.

Anning Haiwan Tea Factory
No. 1 Ripe Tea - 2009 901 batch

[Wastingyouth]

beware of cats, they may pee on your pu!!!

My cat drinks the leftover pu-erh from my tea table

[nonc_ron]

Updated 04/08/10
This is a picture of my Pu-erh Collection Data Base.
I have it set up like a Web Page.
Every time I buy tea on the web. I save that web page and link it to a thumb nail picture in my pu-erh web page.

Click any "thumbnail" opens the original saved web page from when I bought the Puerh.

Click the "Enlarge" button to see a screen size picture of the cake.

Click the "notes" button to open notepad. This is where I write directions on what number box and what number bag its in So I can find it easily.
I also write notes to self on how it taste.

[guitar9876]

Nice collection you got going there. Somebody's gotta keep this thread active!

[chittychat]

Here I have 2 pictures of one of my cakes which I picked-up in a local shop. Note the none-Chinese writings on the wrapper and the inside label. Is it Tibetan? Could anybody guess age, make?

[nicolas]

It looks like a 2005 cake made by the Can Be Happy (可以兴茶庄) factory.

[chittychat]

It looks like a 2005 cake made by the Can Be Happy (可以兴茶庄) factory.

Thanks Nicolas! Looks like it is it. Now if I would only know more Chinese characters than just Tea, Mountain, River, etc. I could read the pages.

BTW the shop I bought it closed its tea section this past May 2nd and gave teas and accessories away at 80 % discount. I have now a supply of a Wu Yi tea to last me for years. Excellent to drink in very hot weather after the brew has cooled a little.

[banzhang]

Seems like no one invest a stack for 2010 puerh

[nada]

Seems like no one invest a stack for 2010 puerh

I did!

[thanks]

Seems like no one invest a stack for 2010 puerh

I did!

Nada, when are your pressings going to be available? I check your site daily! I hope you produced more Bulang like last years, as I regretfully only grabbed one beeng.