Puerh should not keep in fridge. Room temperature and make sure the room no smell. It is better if the room has air circulation. Not too humid also.

Those tea that can keep in fridge are those that requires to be consumed fresh (green tea, non roasted oolong). And it should be in vacuumed sealed stock. If you intend to drink it, take out from the fridge, don't open it immediately. Leave it there for 1/2 day to 1 day, then only open. Once opened, don't put back into fridge cause fridge has foreign smell. Put it in air sealed container and consumed it within 3 months.

Having tea tasting for nearly 5 hours, about 9 types of teas... I am seriously having the drunk feeling and hang over.

Basically from the 3rd hour onwards... I couldn't tell the difference of the tea (same category) any more.

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Added on August 30, 2010, 11:36 pmJust want to share what I’ve learnt today from a tea seller. This guy claimed he used to be a tea lover before becoming a tea seller. He has about 15 years of experience and has sampled many many teas (he threw mountain names, trees names, etc that he has sampled). Here is his advice for a noob like me:-

- First, learn how to drink water. Drink different types of water, drink water at a different temperature (hot, warm, cold, ice) and drink water in different clay/pots. If you can tell the difference of water taste, it will be easier for you to taste tea.
- When tasting tea, best NOT to use influential water and clay/pots.
- Drink all kinds of tea. Cheap. Bad. Expensive. Good. Young. Aged.
- Don’t look at the price before drinking tea. Expensive tea does not mean good. Price is influential. Usually people would think that expensive means good. So, rely on your own taste to decide whether is it worth the price and whether you are financially capable of buying it.
- Don’t listen to what the tea seller says about the character and flavor of the tea. When one listen to what the tea seller says, the brain will somehow influence your taste.
- Buy tea based on your preference. Let your taste decide. No point buying something that people says nice, but you don’t enjoy it.
- What do you seek for when buying tea? Health? Investment? Taste of Luxury? Show off?
- Experiment on different brewing timing based on your preference. Sometimes soaking it longer may give better taste but lesser health benefit. So what is your preference?
- Learn to identify what kind of bitter is good. Not all bitterness is bad.
- Usually when you first taste a new kind of tea, you may not like it. Learn to drink a few more rounds before concluding.
- Learn to feel the taste at the tongue, mouth and throat. Different types of tea will give different after taste. What kind of after taste you like? Some people like dryness, some people like sweetness, some people like bitterness, etc etc. Is all up to your own preference.
- Learn to identify from taste what is wet storage and dry storage. Decide which you like. Wet doesn’t mean bad. Dry doesn’t mean good.
- Always observe how tea sellers brew the tea. What kind of parameters, etc. Did they put a lot of tea leaves vs water?
- When investing on young puerh, since nowadays puerh is done in mass production… will the price increase like how it used to be in the future?
- He said one can easily find an aged raw in the future, but not many will keep cook as people tend to drink cook straight away.

Just got Shigaraki Kyusu today.

Mr Hojo was there in the store. He taught me how to taste water/tea. Basically, your upper lips should not touch the cup. Your lower lips to be intact the the cup. Suck the water/tea directly into the end of your tongue. The water/tea should bypass your teeth and front tongue. Once the water/tea is at the back of your tongue, let it flow into your throat. Don't swallow it. Not an easy task... Burnt my tongue and choked cause sucked too hard. Need a lot of practice

Unboxing Shigaraki Clay Teapot (Kyusu) - Tachi Masaki

That 4 steps are what some ppl may test for their teapots. Some teapot design sure cannot pass the test 2, cause the hole is not reachable. or bigger teapots sure will take longer time to pour out...

The test is just to test how good the workmanship of the teapot and not saying it is fake or not.

Whether the teapot clay is good or not, need to see and feel. Unfortunately I have not reached that level yet to really tell real or not. Even expert also can make mistakes

Thanks to auhckw and Chaossisxy for introducing such a nice tea kaki, Eric is great.

It's really wonderful meeting you all in the hotel room......looking forward on the next outing, cheers.

located at Jalan Loke Yew. apparently they renovate the building and now known as Viva Mall.

I grab this picture from cari.com ....

  what tea? can share your after drink experience?

It is Wuyi season for me... so bought this for Wuyi Oolong dedication...

Factory #1 – Hongni Teapot – Zhu Jie Hu - 80ml

Very nice mini gaiwan, transparent cup, nice holder... and DANBOOOOOOOOOOO