/tea/

Was planning on getting a mug with a brewing basket. Thinking about this one (http://verdanttea.com/teas/samadoyo-personal-glass-brew-cup/) unless anyone can recommend something better quality and/or better value.

>>8412958
I would get something like that but I feel like making a mugful of quality tea would be wasting it. I use the gaiwan mainly

>>8413109
Is it really all the different if you use the same leaves/water ratio and steep time? I can't see how removing the basket and drinking it would have a significant loss in quality compared to pouring into another container and drinking it when all other factors are the same.
>select all images with tea
And of course none of them are tea. One isn't even a drink, it's a bunch of cakes.

>>8413127
No I mean I'd be making a mugful and using more leaves, I feel like making small amounts with a gaiwan is more appropriate for teas with delicate and complex flavors

These guys get it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAi7JHHutDw&t=727s

>>8413138
Alright, I can see that. I think while I was looking around I saw some smaller mugs closer to 100ml that might be more up your alley if you do want to consider one. I wasn't after those because I'm looking for something for general drinking with meals, while working, or doing other things. When I want to drink tea for the sake of drinking tea rather than because I want to something to drink and prefer tea I wouldn't use it.

>>8413146
holy fuck

>>8413151
I should definitely look into it, sounds convenient

My mum gave me a little tea guy for Christmas. It'll only really work with tea leaves, not bags. What are some cheaper tea leaves I can look for? When I was looking before they were all really expensive.

>>8413256
try what-cha, their teas are priced very well

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Just ordered this bad boy (the tray)

Tea drinking is one of the gayest things ever. Drinking lightly flavored water and being a pretentious faggot about it. Why? To top it all off the more flavourful variants also contain very high doses of brain-damaging and cancer causing toxic halogens. Fucking trendy faggots giving yourself brittle bones.

>>8413387
>very high doses of brain-damaging and cancer causing toxic halogens
>toxic halogens
Wot?

>>8413387
>toxic halogens

>>8413387
>halogen
this niggas already been drinking too much tea, you can tell from the evident brain mush.

>>8413632
The pu got to his brain, its fermenting

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My stepdad brought me some nicely packaged tea from china. I don't drink hot beverages very often though. It looks like similar to my image. Will it stay fresh for a few months if the package is opened?

>>8413387
Halogens are great leaving groups, just drink something that will be nicer, like oxygen or nitrogen in some sort of amine or something. Not dat dere carbon though, that gives cancer.

>>8413641
Yes, just limit the amount of oxygen and light it's exposed too. For example, place in a zip lock bag with air squeezed out and put in a tin.

>>8413497
>>8413615
>>8413632
Tea has large amounts of sodium flouride in it. If you wanted to detoxify the ground of flouride you would use tea plants to do it, they suck it up like sponges. Black tea is the worst, green tea is a little bit better, and white tea has the least amount of it.

Poisoned american tap water contains 0.7 ppm sodium flouride, even that is bad enough. The average tea has about 5 ppm. If we look at cheap black teas, you can even get hundreds of ppm. Note that there is no daily requirement for fluoride (especially not sodium flouride), any amount of it is bad, and it deposits into your bones and is accumalative.

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Get shrekt.

>>8413646

Alright thank you.

>>8413669
We should ask ourselves if the fluoride in tap water is 100% identical to the fluoride grown in nature. I have a hard time believing man made synthetic fluoride is the same in tea plants.

>>8413941
It's not, but neither is the flouride found in teaplants. There is a lot of industrial flouride pollution in china, that the tea plants suck up.

>>8413669
Who gives a shit tho? You don't give a shit when it comes to every other thing you consume so why do you care so much when it comes to tea? Just like those guys only eating fast food then complaining about pesticides in tomatoes.

>>8414013
I do though. Besides flouride is especially bad as it literally causes brain damage and cancer. But if you want a balanced approach you would just stop drinking black tea, green tea and white tea are not so bad in comparison.

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>>8413387
>Tea drinking is one of the gayest things ever. Drinking lightly flavored water and being a pretentious faggot about it.

Is it any different than wine connoisseurs or beer drinkers? Or even someone who loves studying on high quality cigars? It's all about focus with these beverage hobbies, people have a fascination with putting their taste buds through a challenge.

How often do you find pretentious tea drinkers in life? Do you see them while walking the mall or hanging out with friends? Chances are you don't, you just see it on the internet and it annoys you. Passionate tea drinkers are generally very shy about it because they know people like you exist to ruin our day.

>>8414030
The pros seem to outweigh the cons for tea health. Thousands of studies proven that tea is indeed very beneficial, however it seems it does have a dark side like most things in life. I suppose the best we can do is not consume a half gallon a day and ensure it comes from a good source in the world.

>>8414141

don't mind him, he's just crabby cause he spilled ketchup over his keyboard again

>>8414146
What benefits are there to tea? Show me this science. 99% of it is just because of the caffeine.

>>8414199
go read a fucking book you filthy pleb

>>8414202
kys nigger

>>8414199
>Show me this science.
>What is an antioxidant? I can't even pronounce that word!
Really, read a fucking book you mong.

>>8414141
>Or even someone who loves studying on high quality cigars?
Stop projecting

>>8413146
Am I suppose to feel like i'm about to get molested after starting to watch this video?

>>8414297
>here, consume this drink with some antioxidants and large doses of brain-numbing carcinogens, instead of eating all those healthy fruits and vegetables with way more antioxidants and not poison

ok senpai

>>8413146
>nu-males having a tea cermony, while doing ASMR

Wow color me surprised

>>8414445
>ASMR
Didn't even know this was a thing, just thought the two dudes in the video were just giant faggots.

I wanna get into tea for those times when I don't feel like washing my coffee equipment.

What's a good heavy tea that feels like coffee?

>>8414877
Earl grey is kind of a heavier tea but it also has a certain type of taste to it as well.

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>>8414877
Pu-erh tea.

It's by far the most dankest of teas on the market.

>>8414857
>just thought the two dudes in the video were just giant faggots.

/tea/ has become /b/ and /pol/, fucking great.

>>8415065
Your on 4chan, if you don't like bad words go to one of the other sites that are more tolerant towards shitty videos being posted.

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What is /tea/'s opinion on Genmaicha, or on adding toasted rice to your tea?

I got a sampler tea gift set for Christmas and just tried the stuff for the first time. I'm in love with it already. The blend I got had too high of a ratio of rice to tea, so I mixed some other green with it to balance it out. With just a touch of honey and it was great.

Which are your favourite stores on ebay? Thoughts on ordering from China? Is Taiwan the best place to get tea?

Need bulk tea for every day drink. (I drink a 35oz french press)

Looking for stuff that runs <10$ a lb
I have been drinking Ahmad, but not sure if theres any other options out there that are good and sell in lb bulks loose.

>>8415535
I asked about some of the bulk sellers on Amazon a few threads ago. An anon said Davidson's gunpowder is good.

>>8414877
http://what-cha.com/china-shandong-laoshan-black-tea/

I just had some of this recently, lots of chocolate and coffee notes. Almost felt like I was drinking coffee

>>8415327
Genmaicha's pretty great

Sup, /tea/

I'm looking to buy a Matcha tea set off amazon. Anyone know of a good one I can pick up that's actually made in Japan?

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>>8415878
Why is Japan so obsessed with matcha? Literally all their tea ceremonies revolve around the green powder stuff.

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I bought this a couple of years ago, it has gone out of date but I still enjoy a cuppa every now and then.

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>>8416136

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I recently purchased a blooming tea pot and I'm currently waiting for it. Does anyone know if the flower adds anything special to the flavor?

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>Girl at work offers me a cup of tea
>apologise and say I only drink loose tea so don't worry
>she gets curious
>asks me how loose leaf tea is because I've never had it
>want to make a joke
>want a good, and funny, response
>"i-it tastes much better, eve-thing is better loose"
>"WHICH IS WHY YOU SHOULDN'T WEAR A BRA HAHAH!"
>she gets shocked and looks at me funny
>pretty sure she told the HR department
>have a meeting today

What are some good teas for an unemployed person?

>>8416148
Post a picture of yourself, i'm curious what you look like to help me understand why you said that.

>>8416146

it makes you gay

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>>8416148
Get cuced anoom

>>8415613
got some Davidson's gunpowder in my cupboard right now. Most of the big amazon tea company's that sell bulk gunpowder are going to be pretty good in my experience.

>>8416148
kek. I think any woman with a sense of humor would have laughed, but those are few and far between. Nowadays they have to start screaming sexual harassment at a harmless joke so they can complete your emasculation.

>>8414877
No tea feel or taste like coffee. I want people to stop asking this question.

>>8416940
It wasn't funny, just semi-creepy. Don't blame your social retardation on pc or feminism.

>>8416952
t. The lord high emasculator herself.

>>8416148
>>"i-it tastes much better, eve-thing is better loose"

That's where the joke should of ended because it leaves it up to the imagination. It hints at a possible loose vagina joke.

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I awoke this mornin and gonfu'd some White Peony. Honestly I can't find a single reason to drink green tea anymore because of its astringent grassy bitterness. White tea has all the goods of green minus the bitterness.

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>>8416952
>>tumblr

>>8417122
>>8416988
>being uncharismatic and undesirable
>unable to charm women
>blame society
Stop being virgins

>>8417139
Stop being a hamplanet

>>8417139
Well that one anon in a previous post is right about society and women nowadays. There's a Marxist propaganda machine that's heavily influenced academia and mainstream media. Ever noticed how women (particularly Gen Y & Millenials) become so easily offended and outlandish?

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Hey /tea/, Im looking to replicate a certain bagged tea I get at trader joes. Its a ginger turmeric blend, pic related. Can anyone recommend me a similar "looseleaf" blend online that is top notch, or tell me how to make my own?

>>8417139
>Wonders why she herself remains a virgin when she emasculates every man that even hints at being slightly masculine.

Plus, you're probably a hamplanet, too.

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>>8417139
>>reddit

>>8417079
green's all about the aroma desu

>>8417218
Check the ingredients and get them fresh/dried/their juice, does it actually contain tea?

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>tfw my white2tea shipment finally came in
>tfw can finally have raw puerh again
Feels great. I look forward to trying this one in particular.

http://white2tea.com/product/2016-fade-raw-puer-huangpian-brick/

Anyone ever bought tea from AliExpress? Seems like some good prices on some different types, and makes sense to buy if I'm already buying other things. Thoughts?

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Yes or no?

>>8418349
I am not sure if I would trust buying stuff like this from Ali. China is always sketchy and I'd rather not have them messing with my health by selling me bad stuff. Maybe there is someone who can tell you more about it though.

>>8418728
they've already started shipping food to poorfag stores. i've seen chinese minced garlic in dollar stores when i needed some and couldn't make it t a real store.

How do I get into puerh?

>>8419148
Buy a cake

>>8419161
which one
how do I brew it

>>8419209
Just get a few 25g samples and a cheap gaiwan from yunnan sourcing, a younger raw, an older one(from the wet stored folder, hk/banna) and a ripe.
Or get the w2t basics set but that is only raw and mainly young.

>>8417983
Placed my first w2t order a few weeks ago. Tracking still has it leaving China on 12/16. :(

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>>8419425
Europe? The issue usually is it doesnt actually go direct to your country. The parcels usually get sorted in germany(iirc) and the tracking doesnt account for it until it reaches your country.

Reposting the pic from a few months ago of the tinder tea slut, is that anon still around?

Tea noob here. When I drink green tea it makes me feel nauseous afterards, that extends for an hour or so. I really want to drink it more often but I feel awful later. What am I doing wrong here? ps I don't boil the water.

>>8419791
you may be using too much tea, or you may be steeping it for too much time
depending on the brewing method you're using, you might have to either steep some 3g of tea per 300ml of 80-85 °C water for some 2 minutes, or you might have to steep some 8-10g of tea per 150-200ml of 80-85 °C water for a minute or so
if that still gives you problem, than you're either using a poisonous tea or you're allergic (not literally) to green tea
>>8412038
>Post recent purchases
100g Taiwanese Li shan
50g Japanese Gyokuro
60g Fujian Da hong pao
wish me luck brothers

>>8419813
I see, looks like I'm using too much of it. I'll try brewing it like you said, thank you.

>>8419791
Usually happens to me when I overleaf on an empty stomach

>>8419813
>>8419816
>>8419831
>>8419791
>>8419445
>>8419425
>>8419368
>>8419209
>>8419161
>>8419148
>>8419073
>>8418728
Samefagging aren't you?

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>>8419836
Not quite

>>8419836
What a dumbfuck

>>8414877
Lapsung. It's a bit smokey, which is the closest I can think of to roasted coffee bean.

>>8415878
I wouldn't buy it off Amazon. It's almost guaranteed to be cheap Chinese crap. For the bowl and spoon (if you want a special bowl and spoon) that won't really matter, but I've bought a Chinese and Japanese whisk before and that makes all the difference. I bought my matcha equipment off o-cha, and I can vouch for them (also, green tea in general-- I've been buying from o-cha for years)

>>8416114
Not sure, but matcha is pretty damn good. I think it's because matcha is made with the highest grade green tea leaves and regarded as the most healthy.

>>8413387
nigga who fucking cares i like it

if you go around with that mindset that you should only do certain activities that minimize health risks and nothing else then you're most likely not living a flourishing life, suppose that your claims are true

anybody else get this weird type of weird restlessness with anxiety drinking tea? It's different then coffee or soda.

I have trouble getting to sleep. Is there a tea for that?

>>8420203
There's a lot of herbs that can be made into "tea" for that. Even catnip helps.

There used to be an old lady on Etsy that would blend medicinal teas together, but she appears to be gone.

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>>8420203
chamomille infusion are great to relax and get good sleep. Take a high quantity of it and you'll want to go to sleep fast.

I used to have a special kind of chemotherapy and a chamomille tea was better to stop the pain than marijuana or opioids.


ALso anyone knows where I can get gret sencha on the cheap? I can buy decent stuff for 10-14$/100g here, ut since I'm drinking it every day I'd like to buy it in large quantity.

>>8420221
Be careful with chamomile; it can interfere with other medications.

>>8419836
op here, I only posted 09 and 48

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>>8420233
Oh thanks, medfag. Concerned because you might not get as much money in kickbacks from your pharma pals because someone found something non-perscription that works better? Might not make the down payment on that new 60 foot yacht?

Fuck off, you pirate.

>>8420221
Hmm, sorry bro, I was going to suggest some senchas in the $15-20 range. If you find a cheaper larger-quantity source, I'd love to hear it.

Do any tea brands or sellers do regular testing for pesticide and herbicide residue content in their teas?

>>8420293
Ok, will do ;) My next step is to try the japanese green tea brands at my local chinese supermarket. They're about 5-10$/100g.

>>8420293
We order Japanese sencha from a wholesale importer company in the chicago area called Dai-ei Trading Company by the case. You have to have a retail tax number though, but that's pretty easy and cheap to set up. The case has 30 bags of damn high quality sencha (my wife is japanese and really picky about her green tea). I think the last time we ordered a couple months ago it was around $9.00 a bag no tax.

>>8420297
Yunnan Sourcing tests all their teas to pass a certification process to ensure nothing harmful of unhealthy is sold.

>>8420280
I am fuckbroke; and you should stop lashing out. Chamomile is just bad with drugs for anxiety and seizures. But if you don't want to listen to free advice because you hate big-pharma (and I do too) go ahead and make the wrong choice.

>>8413941
I genuinely can't tell - are you trolling or severely misinformed?

>>8414141
>How often do you find pretentious tea drinkers in life?

Way too often. My adopted cousin owns a Sushi restaurant and the hipsters that flock there sicken me.

The worst part is that all the Women hipsters always request Lemon in their tea because it, "reduces the number of calories in the tea."

When I'm helping her out on weekends the place is flooded with these people just sipping different tea assortments while eating California rolls. They don't even drink the tea either, they have to let everyone in a 5 block fucking radius know.

First they take a fucking selfie of the cup near their mouth, EVERY TIME.

Then they slurp it taking in more air than liquid, all while making a annoying SLSPSPSLSPSLP noise that's mixed with a GRLGLRGL.

Then they always swish it around in their mouths as if to "activate" its true flavor.

>>8420687
Good god, ' murrican women everybody! How in god's name do you accept this?

>>8420700
Our males lack vaginas.

>>8420687
is your cousin hot?

>>8420221
Adagio has 16 ounces for $39. Can't speak directly as to the quality, but I don't see any red flags or things to suggest it's bad.

>>8420687
I would want to leave with that level of non logic being spewed around. "Adding lemon to a drink that contains nearly no calories, reduces the calories." Where does this mind numbing bullshit even come from? I also don't understand why anyone would be trying to impress people by drinking tea. It's just tea.

>>8419838
>light theme
kys

>>8412038
I purchase a lot of rooibos and chais.

>>8416881
>need to get another $15 worth of stuff to buy it from Amazon because it's an "add-on item"
>nothing I particularly want
Damn.

>>8420395
>Dai-ei Trading
Nice bromigo! Ty!

>>8420687
>lemon in tea
That you even consider these people tea drinkers is laughable. People don't put lemon in tea, they put it in dust and fannings, AKA garbage

>"reduces the number of calories in the tea"
lol wtf

>>8420395
Thanks, this sounds solid!! I'll be looking into this retail tax number.

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Whats your guys' opinion on African teas?

I just picked up some black tea from Nandi Hills and I don't care for it much. I suppose I should try at least one more African tea just in case this one in particular isn't very good.

>>8421365
not a fan of black tea

Everybody says I shouldn't brew green tea gongfu style, why not? I just ordered my gongfu set recently

>>8421467
I personally like it but there isnt much improvement in taste compared to western, depends on the tea and your enjoyment of course

first cup of 2017 is vanilla rooibos

>>8421467
You get maybe 4 steeps worth from green tea, compared to PuErh it's nothing.

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>>8420687
That is really disappointing to here and honestly kinda saddens me.

Their hipster shallowness has both pros and cons depending on how you look at it. On one hand they're making up a fake facade of "i'm different look at me" vibe, but on the other hand they're unintentionally making more mainstream which is good for the industry. I guess the most we can hope for are hipsters bringing back the old authentic ways of tea brewing to the mainstream audience.

>>8413669
Citation needed

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>>8413387

You're getting angry at water. Have you considered you might be autistic?

>>8421365

I've tried some cheap Kenyan black. It was drinkable. If you've got a few bucks go for it, I didn't regret it.

>>8421913
I kind of appreciate hipsters when it comes to food and cooking. They tend to create a demand for high quality standards and bring a supply of new and often better products to those businesses who are aware and act on that demand. On the other hand they do fuck up some things like every day items becoming suddenly expensive solely from being a hipster fad. Its a tricky situation.

>>8422953
There's also different variants of hipsters. Some are punkish with outlandish behavior, others are more geeky. Some are hippyish, and you might even come across ones that appear quite normal until a strange hobby is reveals itself.

>>8418360
no

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I'm looking to buy some matcha, what's a good price/weight benchmark for it? I've got pretty dull tastebuds so it doesn't have to be great, recommendations are also welcome.
>>8420115
How was it different?

Don's tea bloopers of 2016.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGLFWGJQhXU

So i'm contemplating whether or not I should buy an electric tea kettle... or a portable electric burner to heat up my iron kettle.

Which would use less energy?

>>8424153
The electric kettle. If you want to use the iron kettle you could get an induction cooker which should be pretty fast.

>>8423723
I buy mostly from hibiki-an, fucking excellent store. http://www.hibiki-an.com/index.php/cPath/26

>>8424153
Yes, buy an induction cooktop. it will turn every one of your pots in an electric teakettle and is super versatile for other stuff besides.

>>8423723
This blog has a lot of matcha reviews
http://oolongowl.com/tag/matcha/

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>>8413387
>>8413669
point and laugh at this faggot

What are your steeping today, lads? I'm brewing w2t's bang dong hong. First time using a yixing pot.

>>8419425
I ordered mine at the end of November. Shipping from China just takes a while. If you're in the states, yours should come in a week or so.

>>8424488
Just got some tiny 50ml gaiwans from ys, compared a sheng from a local store to a ys one, pretty sure the local one dried out and died, super watery, probably not the best material to start with as it was pretty cheap but the store should really store it better

>>8424226
cant use cast iron on induction

I've been drinking sencha and genmaicha for a few months now and I want to upgrade to slightly more expensive tea.

What to get? Gyokuro?

Also, where to start with chinese tea?

>>8425197
wait for the new harvest and get some shincha, the difference is really big to older sencha

>>8425018

lol, what? Cast iron works perfectly fine on induction. Any ferrous metal does.

>>8425328
Damn, does it make that big of a difference? I recently ordered some more sencha and that would explain why this had a notably less sweet flavour

>>8423723
I suppose I was being a little exaggerating when I said it made all the difference. That's just where the quality difference was. It made matcha fine, but the bamboo spoon had splinters that continued to peel back within the first few weeks of owning it, and the fingers of the whisk started to separate and spread apart within the first use, and it only continued to lose shape and firmness/springiness with each additional use. I bought a Japanese whisk and spoon which were much better quality, despite being only slightly more expensive, and the whisk has maintained shape much better.

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What's the most aesthetic tea container? Looking at Amazon I find stuff like this - it'd work, sure, but it feels kinda sterile and un-comfy to me.

Is the best option just to look through local stores and second-hand places or what?

>>8426094
just do it teavana-style and put it in a big clear container

[spoiler]please don't actually do this anon, but I'd like something comfier than the standard sealed metal bullet too[/spoiler]

Sup /tea/ new to the stuff. I'm trying out tea and blends and I want to keep far, far away from added sweeteners or sugar. What are some good teas I can get into that are great without sugar? So far I've enjoyed just straight-up green and black tea, green tea with mint, and Earl Grey.

>>8426396
Buy the intro to tea from what-cha.

If you absolutely need sweetener use honey.

>>8425018
It will work just fine. There's some risk of cracking or warping if you use a really high setting all the time. That risk is probably even lower for a kettle filled with water.

how do I get into the specific types of green tea (sencha, matcha, etc)?

>>8427338
Buy some good quality examples, make sure your brewing vessel is clean, use clean spring water and brew at the right temperature for the right amount of time.

If you don't like it, don't force yourself! Life is too short.

Just went to customs to get my ys order, 7 different wuyis, only had one so far, the wild dhp, pretty solid much better than the dhp got from them a while back

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should I do it, /teagen/?

>>8428124
Seems nice, keep in mind the two cakes you have there are not pure tea one has camellia flower mixed in and the other has jiaogulan, they arent really expensive so no harm desu.
The thing im not sure about is if the fact your dancong is from 2015 is a bad thing or if it doesnt really matter, especially since it's fairly expensive

>>8426094
http://www.postcardteas.com/site/product-category/accessories/kaikado-caddies/

Could try these if aesthetics and quality trump price for you.