Official *What did you get in the mail today?* Thread!!!
My What-Cha and Taiwan Tea Crafts orders arrived today.
From What-Cha, I got samples of 1st and 2nd flush darjeeling, Taiwanese sencha, wild-growing dragon well, and jingmai shengtai raw puerh. Received a very nice handwritten note from Alistair along with a sample of Thailand Red Tiger oolong. Excited to try this sample as I’ve seen rave reviews for their Vietnam Red Buffalo oolong which is similar.
I took advantage of TTC’s Chinese New Year discount and picked up 25g each of Spring 2016 Dayuling, Winter Shibi oolongs, this should be enough to hold me over until the spring oolongs arrive. But the highlight of my order was the gorgeous Xi Shi 160ml red clay teapot. Love the bubble shape and feel of it in my hands.
Btw, TTC’s clay pots are not authentic yixing but they are high quality, well made pots that cost much less than a real yixing teapot.
Just waiting on my Teavivre order to arrive so I have some tea to season this baby.
I was going to place an order with Taiwan Tea Crafts because some of my greens will run out before the spring teas are ready. I changed my mind because I had my cart too full! lol I think I’ll go back and take another look.
Love that teapot. I had to check out what it looks like. Really nice and a good price too! What were you planning on seasoning it with?
Thanks, I’ll be seasoning it with black tea. There are a few that have grown on me, namely laoshan blacks and golden monkey.
I have their 100ml pear shaped purple clay teapot which has been great for green oolongs. Hope this one does as well with black tea.
I got some surprise teamail today. What I believe is a shou puerh cake and an unmarked sample (unmarked in English that is) from an Aliexpress seller that had forgot to send me a tea cake a while ago. Also, I took the photo with my new camera which will replace my phone for tea pictures on Instagram once I get the hang of it.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BQYaV7ljiue/?taken-by=allanckeanepuerhtea
I got my order from Teavivre and Crimson lotus, Ill be digging in and making write ups very shortly.
I posted one of the greens from Teavivre late last night.
My black friday order from Yunnan Sourcing finally made it on the slow boat… YAY!
I got my Green Tea for Novice’s box from Den’s Teas. I have only tried 2 out of the box but both have been really good. Sadly i am not expecting anything else for a while.
My Sawa Houzan shiboridashi from Yunomi arrived today along with a sample of sencha. I think I received one of the newer styles because it’s all cream without the light pink streaks. I would have test driven it except I already drank more than a liter of green tea today.
And shipping from Japan is crazy fast. It took only 5 days from order shipment to arrival on my doorstep. Meanwhile, my e-packet shipments from China continue to languish in customs for weeks.
Yesterday I received some teamail, got an order from Lupica. Replaced a Handy Cooler iced tea pitcher that I had broken and bought about twelve teas in their 50g sizes.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BQlJiPlDADC/?taken-by=allanckeanepuerhtea
Yunnan sourcing sheng tea of the month club tea’s got here today…..
I’m SO impatient, I dont want to wait for them to rest!
I just got my box of samples from Garret at Mandala Tea, super fast shipment and delivery and nice big samples to try over many days. Now, what to try first? This is going to be fun.
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