So is "O-long" consider as black tea? Where is the best place to buy tea?

i know one. SS14, Subang Jaya. the guy that owns the place is called Uncle Lee. Next to a chicken rice shop called Kar Heong (forgot the name of the tea shop.. Zheng something i think). my parents are there most of the weekday afternoon with their friends. the owner's very nice n helpful... funny too!

1) Purple Clay material = Makes the green tea / some other tea taste better. I compared side by side (same tea, same pot, same batch, one drink from purple clay cup and one normal glass), yes it differs.
2) Made in Japan
3) Hand made by Tachi Masaki (well known person for making it, hand made and not mass production).
4) 2 chop = tougher / more detail design

Hojo recommends it, and seems like many other on the net says the same wor 

Frankly, I tried comparing green tea with and without using purple clay. The difference is only very little to my tongue but with purple clay it goes smoother. Not sure whether it is a placebo effect cause people said it is better. My taste buds ain't that good yet. Maybe when learn how to drink more, hopefully will improve.

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...

From what I was told, most of the better/best/investment grade Pu-erh tea leaves were bought by two parties in Penang. The have been hogging the tea leaves for many years. They initially went around Malaysia and China to accumulate Pu-erh leaves (the better grade ones) when ppl still dont really keen on Pu-erh. Then a year or two later, one taiwanese doctor wrote in article that Pu-erh is good for the heart, and ppl started to rush to buy Pu-erh. They made millions from the tea by selling them back to China. One guy bought a house just to stock his Pu-erh tea.. Most of the Pu-erh sold in the market now are not the very expensive grade.
According to Pu-erh sellers in China, Penang is the place to go if you want good grade Pu-erh.

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

Where did you get your zi sha tea pot from? Teashop? I just bought one, a 'muo luni', not for drinking, more as shelf-decoration type. Thinking of buying one to use everyday.

Just stocked up today at Hojo today:-


Meng Ku High Mountain Raw Pu-er
RM250 / 250g
Produced: 2010

i'm looking for chinese tea art workshop in KL?
anyone know about that??

It is kind of expensive to buy 90s good puerh nowadays, so I planned to setup a Pu box (by the year).

I plan to get a box, labeled by the year and buy the year's puerh (diff range, 1 or 2 pieces each) and put it in. Keep the box for years to come and drink when is age enough. Do that every year.

Result of the box may or may not be good. But heck is much cheaper and should be ok if kept well. The box will worth much more then (10+ years time)