There are Dayi and Mengku there but it is fake. Other tea is ok as it is reasonable price. One good thing about China store is that you can nego for low prices.

There are 2 different stores there. The one I frequent does not carry any Dayi/Mengku.
Btw u from Ipoh?

Guys ... any nice green tea (tea bag) recomend?

I would like to confirm does ALL almond tea taste and smell like thinner(paint removing solution)?

I don't really fancy tea bags, but I have tried this and seems to be quite nice.
http://www.jdxtea.com/node/240

You can get it in JDX or in any local Pharmacy (except Watson and Guardian).

I have not tasted almond tea before, but don't really like additional almond flavor in drinks (eg coffee). It has one kind of weird medicine taste.

Had this today...

7532 Menghai Raw (1994)
-Colour aged well
-Starting to have the old taste (lao wei). Sweet
-2 rinse, 1 -> 6 was good, 7th onwards starting to drop
-After drinking, it gives the old taste breath but leaving my mouth & throat feeling thirsty

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Added on May 29, 2011, 1:03 am
Edit: While drinking, the tea shop owner was saying that Taiwan puerh market is booming and it is easier to sell his tea there and if preorder for new tea is slow here, he would not bring them in and just send them to Taiwan. He is the 2nd tea shop that told me.

The 1st tea shop actually has a branch in Taiwan and their custom puerh series for 2011 has nearly been sold out upon 1 month of arrival there. Quantity is not a lot but also not little. One of their customer wanted to buy 1 of their series completed, but the tea shop refused, and just sold him few boxes. Amount is worth about RM60k.

Speaking of spending, one of the tea customer I met today has recently went to Macao and spent about RM20k on slightly old tea. A y97 puerh 500g cost him about RM3k. He bought a variety and hand carry them back.

There are so many rich people around who are willing to spend so much on tea...

This post has been edited by auhckw: May 29 2011, 01:03 AM

Free Samples


2008 Dayi Peacock 5 Mountains (Nanuo, Mengsong, Bulang, Bada, Menghai) Raw


2010 Dayi 3 Moutains Raw


2010 Dayi Yiwu Mountain Raw


2010 Dayi Bada Mountain Raw


2010 Dayi Bulang Mountain Raw


This post has been edited by auhckw: May 29 2011, 09:10 PM

Just had 1960s Liu Bao @ 1k=RM4,000 after lunch. Smooth and Sweet. Gratis.

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Added on May 31, 2011, 8:15 pmI heard from someone that JDX is going to have some sales offer at their shop in 10 days time before the Tea Expo

This post has been edited by auhckw: May 31 2011, 08:15 PM

2006 – Da Yi Jin Se Yun Xiang – Raw Pu-erh – 666g Beeng

Today...

2000 Kunming Red Mark 8668
1994 Dayi 7432
2006 Dayi Bulang Peacock
2006 Dayi 666g
2003 Dayi Purple
2000 Dayi Red Mark
2006 v93 Raw

drunk...

What is this guy doing with Long Jing?
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1...100000405732753

Kunming 8668 Red Mark Iron Beeng


Y99 (left), Y00 (right)
Y99 slimmer fonts
Y00 fatter fonts


Y99 Big Ticket


Y00 Big Ticket


Y99


Y00


Tea Art No 19.


It is reviewing Y00, but the photo is showing slimmer font (Y99). Look at the big ticket too, it is showing Y99 ticket instead of Y00.



This post has been edited by auhckw: Jun 2 2011, 03:07 PM

How much you bought? I stay away from iron cake since it will takes ages for it to mellow.

I bought the y99 version. PM-ed you the price.







My friend was saying y99 has the original hong yan potential, and you are right, he also said it takes about 15 more years to unleash it's full potential. I decided to buy cause it is still affordable now. In 15 years more, it would not.

Hmm... I remember reading somewhere that Kunming Tea Factory was officially shut down in 1996. Unofficial production has been carried on until until 1998. It was then reopened in 2006. No offense meant but that the tea u bought were produced in Kunming Tea Factory 1999/2000 is kinda... questionable.

No offense taken

The shop owner said 50 boxes was produced for y99 and he bought 40 boxes. His stock came from Taiwan (if I heard it correctly).

y99/y00 was features in the magazines and books. It won award in something. Too bad I don't know how to read chinese

http://tw.myblog.yahoo.com/jw!VQDL1UaU...t=669&l=f&fid=5

I heard after 2006, Kunming production is not trustworthy. A lot of fakes.

This post has been edited by auhckw: Jun 2 2011, 05:53 PM

From the page, on the line wif blue and red characters, if I read it correctly, it says there is no extra stroke on the forth character from the left on the upper line (南), for the genuine product that is. But from ur pic below, the stroke is there (if u compare to his).


Another thing is, the dapiao looks too new for a yr2000 tea. Or maybe the camera killed most of the details in the pic?


One last thing: If this tea has won award and has limited production, it's unlikely that 80% of the total stock will flow outside China.

To me, the thing that's questionable is the production date. After the close-down of kunming factory, the parent company still produces tea but under other factories like menghai and XG, as well as other authorized factories. This is also when those irresponsible producers take advantage of the situation by using its brand. That's y there's a lot of fake zhongcha 90s products circulating in the market nowadays.

Yes, I noticed the y00 is diff from the book and the photo I took. The dapio you quoted is y00, my friend bought it at penang. I think maybe y00 batch is incorrect or got confused.

You see the left photo y99, I think it is the correct version compared to the book. The y99 dapio (the other photo) looks more dated. y99 has marks of insect eating the pu wrapping. I think the shop owner confused about y99 which is actually y00. But he insist he is right cause he bought the stocks.

One thing I am confused is also kunming factory is 1, but the number is showing 8.

Meanwhile, here is the larger resolution for the magazine. I don't understand chinese, can you roughly summarized what it is trying to say?



This post has been edited by auhckw: Jun 2 2011, 06:55 PM

most of the text talk about the origin of tea and comment from expert how the tea "taste" like. I was inform as a guide, pre-2000 tea in bing usually loosely compress, if your tea leave is very pack like the one your having in recent collection. Then there is a possibilities is post 2000.

It is iron beeng, so very hard