i broke it cause i too tamak.. carry too many things at one go.. everything didn't drop except the teapot... my heart shattered with it...

the unbroken lid is perfect... haha... u want for what? yes you can have the unbroken lid. can meet in teashop in kepong to pass to u

The lid can always use as spare parts. Last time S4T sold those shipwreck teapot without lid less than half price than the fully intact one and it is sold out and I missed the chance..

ah, if you want to use it as your backup is awesome! Well, i sometime just have this hunch that certain stuff would be useful

You can have it if you want. I see it makes me sad only... hehe

2009 Dayi Gong Tuo Raw - Revisit this. This is one of my very first few Pu I purchased. I was told that this was produced by an ex Xiaguan producer. It has a little of the xiaguan smoky taste. This tasted better than Jia Ji Tuo, but it is not something that is enjoyable now. Good aftertaste after drinking but it is still tough to like.

2006 Xia Guan Tibet Flame Iron Beeng Raw - Solid hard. Taste is quite similar to it's mushroom version. Quite a nice tea to drink now. Not too strong. Not bitter. Not smoky. Their signature Tibet Flame aroma and taste is there. Compared to the 2009 mini iron beeng version, the 2009 mini is so much stronger. This 2006 is lighter. Both are nice depending you like strong or mild taste.

I just remembered that I have a dong dao cup, and decided to bring it to tea shop from now on to use it. I want it to have crackle... last 2 tea photos above is the cup.

Brand new (back then)

I shall take away that sad part of your tea adventure
This month i will start my job in klang, ready room rent and work is alot. May we meet up on an auspicious date next month? I would have to check the lrt for the location as I don't have a car to ride during weekend if possible :/

Ok. On the Sat/Sun should be ok. I can pick u up at LRT station (Kelana Jaya) or KTM (Kepong)

Date, once you are here we can discuss in PM or MSN

sound good.

Unknown year, most probably new Not nice. Greenish awkward taste. Yuck.





90s Greenish, but at least sweet. Not nice.





80s Taste much better than the first 2. Pleasant aroma. A bit woody taste. Acceptable to drink but the time is not right to enjoy yet.

70s I am not even sure there are 70s Liu-An (cause I thought it started to produce back in the 80s), but it was written there as 70s. Ignoring the year... taste wise... very much enjoyable. Nice aroma and Woody taste. Sweet. A bit medicine taste.





Liu An Sticks 1920s I have wrote about this before. It is still very very very extremely good. So good that even 2g is enough to be drank and enjoyed up to 15 brews. The woody has turned into medicine (ginseng) taste. So sweet. Ahhhhh.... too bad... no more stock.





After many brews... it was boiled, cause we don't want to waste it. Taste is oh so very good

1980s Di Cao Qing













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Just got some new supply direct from Taiwan (Thanks to my boss). I got 3 packs of I think OoLong but today I only decide to open the 1st pack to taste. It was superb, the thing about tea bought direct from Taiwan is the taste is so much better than what you could buy here. Well just sharing with you guys.



1st pack





Front and back 2nd pack

This is the pack that I have decided to open today. I have drank last season's tea of this brand so I was very anxious to try this year's.




A look at the tea leaves


The second brew. The first was so light in colour that on photo it looked like water. So far the taste is sweet and good. It was so fragrant the the whole living hall smelled of Oo Long


The tea leaves 2nd brew. Not fully open yet but notice how green and fresh it is!

In conclusion I think its similar to last year in terms of taste, aroma and the no of times I could brew it (total of 10 brews before it goes flat). Well that is what I have to share for today.

BTW auhckw please keep up the daily posts. How bout more on teapots?

Hmmmm, drinking tea, my favourite subject. I've only read the first couple of pages as wading through 78 would be tooo much, however, here's my take on our favourite brews.

As everyone knows tea comes in many shapes & varieties but my interest has always been in the health giving benefits of tea & I have become accustomed to the taste of many teas over the years.

It is the anti oxidant qualities of tea that make it a healthy drink and as with any plant life that we humans like to eat the less processing it undergoes before it reaches the consumer the healthier it is.

Anti oxidants are very good at cleansing the body & clearing up nasties such as free radicals before they accumulate & can cause damage.

White Tea goes through the least processing & it has been found in many scientific reports to contain the highest level of anti oxidants.

Green Tea contains the next highest level of anti oxidants as it also goes through very minimal processing and so on and so forth down the anti oxidant food chain of camellia sinensis teas such as Oolong, Black & Herbals.

Just Googling White or Green Tea will just guide you to pages of companies trying to sell you products so I always find it is far better to delve deeper & look for scientific evidence from more reliable sources without a monetary bias.

Try these for starters:

http://scholar.google.com.my/scholar?hl=en...s_ylo=&as_vis=1

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2003/...30130081227.htm

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/...40526070934.htm

fyi.........I have no vested interest in selling tea but I drink lots of both White & Green Tea dependant on my mood.

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Added on August 14, 2011, 9:13 pmAnother tea I used to drink a lot but seldom do these days is 'Rooibos Tea' that is grown exclusively on the Cedarberg Mountain region of South Africa.

Rooibos lterally translates as red bush and is not from the Camellia Sinensis family of teas brewed frequently around the world.

Rooibos is also full of anti oxidant properties but it carries a different family of polyphenols & catechins to the Camellia Sinensis Teas.

Rooibos comes as fermented Rooibos or unfermented. Simarlarly with White/Green Teas it is the unprocessed tea that gives the most health benefits.

Unfermented Rooibos is a yellowy/tan colour as opposed to fermented Rooibos that has a more reddish colour.

Aspalathin and Nothofagin are two Flavonoids that are unique to Rooibos although it must be noted the anti oxidant properties of Rooibos is not just limited to these two polyphenols.

I remember trying Rooibos Tea in a certain SA restaurant in PJ only to be disappointed to find the tea came in teabags and not in the unfermented leafs

If interested in studying Rooibos this is a good resource:

http://www.sarooibos.co.za/health-mainmenu...ces-mainmenu-51

Happy Brewing

This post has been edited by SpyMalaysia: Aug 14 2011, 09:13 PM

A customer brought his artist teapot. This is a new teapot and cost a bomb. Duan Ni.

Artist Teapot: Di Cao Qing 1/2 Moon Teapot



Info
1/2 Moon Shape Teapot
Made by wife Hé Xīn and the carvings by husband Zhōu Bō
Made in 1999
Di Cao Qing clay
Semi hand made
Medium fired
150ml
7 holes
Smooth flow. No leakage
Emptied water in 15 to 17 seconds
Fill with water. Cover the spout, turn the pot upside down. Lid didn't fall
Suitable for Puerh











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Hello, I'm a tea-amateur here. Normally drink tea from Starbucks such as English breakfast, Earl Grey etc. How should I start off with a tea-set?

Thanks

I can't tell you how to get started but I can tell you how I started myself. I started drinking tea with my bosses. From them I found that I like Oo Long tea. Then I went to a tea shop to get the cheapest teapot, the whole set of tea drinking apparatus (inc the drinking cups). Then started by buying some cheap tea just to get started.

The main thing is to know what type of tea you like and find a few good tea shops and you would be on your way.

If you are into english tea, you would only need a nice cup and a strainer. Try chinese tea cause you get better variety and (for me at least) better taste. Also if I'm not wrong better health benefits.

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Added on August 16, 2011, 2:29 amNice, wonder what is the damage??

This post has been edited by slimfox: Aug 16 2011, 02:29 AM

To my knowledge there are more than 20 types of drinking tea apparatus and can completely exhibit and release the fragrance of it. Haha seems like is quite complicated to get started. It's more cost-conscious than drinking Coffee.