Are you suggesting TT at Genting or Cameron?

At times, I saw people put bottle at the pipe near the hill side collecting water.

First time making my own green tea (Karigane) = Failed.

I used my glass teaware, and the problem is, the green tea got stuck in the inner filter. Water won't flow out. Ended up with over brewed bitter green tea.



The glassware is so hot. Burnt my hand holding it while panicking why water wont come out. Nearly broke the glass.

Another problem now is with the inner filter, there are a lot of small pieces of the greens in the hole and it wont come out.

What a disaster... have to practice more and find the right tools to do the right tea.

Now I am trying to brew 1 liter of cold green tea. Put 2 tablesppon of it in 1 liter of water. Hope this will be better for such a hot day these days.

This post has been edited by auhckw: May 26 2010, 04:08 PM

I think ok to drink cold tea for such a hot weather these days... I tried google, but cannot find disadvantages / harm from drinking cold tea.

The benefit of cold water brewing is tea can last for a whole day and the taste is refreshing with a natural sweetness. Thanks to the cold water extraction, the level of caffeine in tea is very low. You would not suffer from sleepless nights. Even kids can enjoy this tea.
Source

Cold Tea Vs Hot Tea Health Benefits How Long Can You Keep or Steep?
http://www.amazing-green-tea.com/cold-tea.html#

*info above is on green tea... not sure about other tea.

>>>The benefit of cold water brewing is tea can last for a whole day and the taste is refreshing with a natural sweetness. Thanks to the cold water extraction, the level of caffeine in tea is very low. You would not suffer from sleepless nights. Even kids can enjoy this tea.

Like not accurate. Had the cold green tea after dinner about 9pm. It was very good. But me and wife couldn't sleep. Haha.

Just got this forwarded email.

Was digging for more info on purple clay...

http://vnet.vn/Business/?v=2&b=5757&ProductID=25051

What is Purple clay
Purple Clay can only be found in China, and almost all of that comes from Yixing, Jiangsu Province. A unique mineral resource of China, Purple Clay is deeply hidden in hillside strata. Its mineral compositions include Mica, Kaolin, Quartz and Iron. Scientific researches indicate that purple clay does not contain any elements harmful for human body and is a kind of purely natural soft clay, without environmental pollution.

Application of Purple Clay
Nowadays, Purple Clay is widely used in two main field, one is for tea brewing and the second is for cooking. So it is widely used in tea ware, teapot, tea mug, cooking pot, heating plate, rice cooker, slow cooker, soup pots, etc etc.

Purple clay tea ware( teapot and tea mug) as superior to all other types of teapots for brewing tea. Because the teapot will retains the porous nature after firing, which is excellent at absorbing the flavor and aroma of the tea. After long term use, the teapot will enhances the taste, color and aroma of the tea. Legend has it that if a purple clay teapot has been used for a long time, one can simply pour hot water into the teapot to brew a cup of tea.
Purple Clay cooking tools are widely used in daily cooking now, because of its perfect performance on transferring heat equally, anti-acid and anti-alkali, will not destroy the structure of food’s nutrition and will not have the chemical reaction between food and material of inner pot, so it can preserve the original tastes and nutrition of the food.

Scientific research of Purple Clay
From scientific research, purple clay does not contain lead, arsenic, cadmium, chromium, and other toxic materials which do harm to human healthy, whereas the research proves that purple clay contains SiO2, Al2O3, Fe2O3, MgO, CaO… these minerals are so good for healthy, such as control high blood pressure, limit complications of congestive heart failure,prevent diabetes complications and ease muscle cramps, aches and pains etc.
Purple Clay has also been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), to be safe for use, and possess a high standard of quality.

Ya, nowadays a lot of not pure things. Have to be more careful when it is coming from China.

I was drinking my Pu-erh (free when buying my mug) and the coloring is quite brownish. Entah don't know got put coloring or not.

That is why I am sourcing around for premium tea or trusted vendor...

I don't know whether it is coincidence or not, I took 1 liter of karigane green tea everyday for 1 week+. Ended up whole mouth full of ulcers. At least 5 biji. So painful. Have stopped for 2 days already, hope will recover soon

5 days since I last post that. Today, almost 95% of the ulcers are gone. During the last few days took chrysanthemum, and today back to the green tea.

I got drink water also la At least 3 to 4 liters per day. So 1 liter of green tea is still less than water intake.

Thanks for the reminder. Will go there see look see look.

Will be good if you can share where you buy your tea also

Just came back from the tea expo... and wow... really a lot of tea vendors there... too many until don't know which to go

Nope didn't buy anything nor try, was carrying baby. So just pass by see look see look. So many booths, don't know which to stop. So many teas, So many pots.

I think I have to find time to go again...

Just stocked up today at Hojo today:-

Asahina Gyokuro
http://hojotea.com/item_e/g04e.htm

Meng Ku High Mountain Raw Pu-er
Produced: 2009 (spring)








A nice read about The Myth and Truth of Pu-erh
http://hojotea.com/article_e/puerh_e.htm

This post has been edited by auhckw: Aug 8 2010, 11:01 PM

I've emailed and asked more details about this tea:

Question: Meng Ku is the factory name right? So, from which mountain is the tea leaves that I bought?

Reply: You are right about Meng Ku being a mountain, it is located in the south west part of Yunnan in a area called Cang Lin Shi 沧临市, close to border next to Burma. Meng Ku is located at altitude 2200-2750m, considered one of the highest altitude that produces pu-erh tea. This place is known for its vast area of ancient wild tea trees grown all over the forest area. For this particular Meng Ku raw pu-erh, tealeaves are plucked from 150 years old tea tree(grown in the wild).

I was introduce to this http://tea-li.com/index.php
So I went to their Serdang branch today. Bought this:







They said this is promo price, selling below market price to attract people to come. Link: http://tea-li.com/goods.php?id=119

They have quite a lot of teas. They said they are doing wholesale. Their teas are cheap. Frankly I see the price I was like (err is this real?). They have 7542 year 2001 @ RM150 / USD47. If buy 2 pieces, free 1 piece. Took some samples






This post has been edited by auhckw: Aug 8 2010, 12:09 AM

Interesting video about Secrets of Pu-erh

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5vel9utESU

Production of Pu-erh

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ij7hjioQQIs

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