Hello,
I live in Bangladesh. Recently got into tea. Read many articles, watched youtube videos. World of tea is wonderful.

I grew up with black tea dust brewed with milk and sugar as everyone else in my country. Tea dust is widely available in our country, sold both loose and packaged (ispahani, zerin, tetly etc brands). 99% people here don’t even know there is something called whole leaf.

After watching meileaf videos, ordered from them. Waiting for the tea to arrive. Ordered long jing and crysenthamum oolong. But overall their tea is expensive. Shipping is expensive too. And after joining https://www.reddit.com/r/tea/ reddit i discovered other vendors. Maybe should have ordered from teavivre, as they have much cheaper shipping to my country. Still no vendor in my country. After searching deeper, i found http://cha-walah.com/ . Possibly only place i can buy whole leaf in my country. So anybody has any thought on this seller? If you think they are not good, from where should i buy?

There is a company named Kazi & Kazi Tea (known as Teatulia in US, UK) that sells some broken leaf, under orthodox brand. Orthodox green and black. These are hard to find. But bought them today and tasted them. Green was too bitter, something wet haylike taste. Black did not have enough flavor, but flavor was like our regular tea dust.

I had a nose surgery and after that i can’t taste mild flavors. So should i look for medium to strong flavor teas? So oolongs, puerh and black teas?

Also looking for teaheads from bangladesh. Knowing someone knowledgeable will greatly help.

Note: Posted similar post in reddit, but i got shadowbanned. Don’t know why – https://www.reddit.com/r/tea/comments/6zn0ki/tea_beginner_from_bangladesh_help_me_start_my_tea/?st=j7jcubba&sh=4bbc926b

TLDR:
1. Where should i buy from as i live in bangladesh?
2. Which teas i should try first? As after my nose surgery i have trouble tasting mild flavor.
3. Looking for people to connect to, make friends and such.

Tea Beginner, help me to start

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