Qing Pin Black Tea

awesome..sounds great!

Yay! As I was reading your review, I was like, “I hope this is her next BBBB offering.” :D

glad you said that too…was looking at getting free samples from them via my tea mule lol

Grape nuts – what a clever call on that flavor!

Welcome to your friend Nerdlor, I’m now following her then :-)

Awesome! I don’t know how much she will post, but she will probably read lots of notes :) I’m so excited she’s on steepster now!

Woohoo! I got a follow from her lol hope I don’t bore her to death lol

Sil the only person you could possibly bore would have to be a blind person who can’t read braille :-)

Haha I am sure she won’t be bored! Your notes are great :) so many teas I have not tried! Lol :D

Yes but I’ve been soooo busy lately that my tasting notes are all like.zomg so tired. TEa. good. Yay night.

Lol

Yay! How big are the samples?

All of mine were 5g samples :)

@moraiwe — I’m glad you like it too! I tried all 6 and I wouldn’t consider any of them smoky. But when I think smoky, I think Lapsang Souchong. None are like that. All 6 are delicious. Did you get the high mountain one too? That one is super good.

@Terri- This is coming your way from me. This and the high mountain one. And then I’m sending a few more the next time around, so don’t buy it…YET! I’m sure you’ll want to buy some of your own once you try this.

I agree on the Lapsang smokey thing. Like, there’s roasted. And then there’s smokey. And it’s the latter category I don’t like.

But yes! I grabbed the Gao Shan High Mountain and the Jin Jun (and then the Dong Ding oolong) and now I’m even more excited to try them!

Did you guys try the zheng shan xiao zhong, the Shui Xian Da Hong Pao, or any of the puerhs?

TastyB, I’m excited that you’re sending some! Yay!

I tried the zheng shan xiao zhong and it will be in the box next time around. I haven’t tried any oolongs or puerhs yet. Order free samples of those and let me know!

That’s the plan! I wanted to make sure to get samples of stuff you were NOT sending! :)

I debated on the Shui Xian Da Hong Pao, so if you end up with that one definitely let us know!

You could never be boring. Also, you’re totally fancy.

oh you! i love the idea of “fancy” becoming an injoke. :D

i am amazed someone who sees me prattle on on FB about hair buns and cat puke can say such a thing. but grateful too. <3 goodness knows it’s quite a shock coming from a lady who jetsets and gets her hair did splendidly and can talk theory and feminism with the best of ‘em. it’s been a pleasure running into you on the internets. (:

Aww. Aww. AWW!

oh, my heart ate my comment. this is what text cache is for!

oh you! i love the idea of “fancy” becoming an injoke. :D

i am amazed someone who sees me prattle on on FB about hair buns and cat puke can say such a thing. but grateful too. (heart) goodness knows it’s quite a shock coming from a lady who jetsets and gets her hair did splendidly and can talk theory and feminism with the best of ‘em. it’s been a pleasure running into you on the internets. (:

…ok. internet group hug with bouncy curls. ha!

OMG I DIDN’T THINK IT COULD GET MORE BEAUTIFUL BUT IT JUST DID

teaspoons all round!

You want to be the big teaspoon, the small teaspoon, or the middle teaspoon, keychange?

… is wondering whether the hair buns and cat puke were somehow related? Heh.

Best pet related hair styling product EVER.

I cannot stop laughing. Thanks, Anna.

Yes, this is how I like to introduce myself to new people on Steepster, Cheri – cat puke jokes!

In case you can’t see my profile picture, it’s one of my furry kids. In fact, he’s the pukey one. I know all about cat puke and cat puke jokes.

just last night i found out something i kind of wish i could unknow, that all those bouffanty ‘40s hairstyles were accomplished with the use of something known as a “hair rat”—women collected their shed hairs and made them into a little sponge like filler for their up ’dos! i mention this weirdness because now i’m imagining cat puke as a result of one finding one’s hair rat and taking it as a snack. eugh.

cat puke. it’s what brings people together. that or an immature/gross sense of humor.

haahaha, “the pukey one”…oh feline terms of endearment.

Does every home with more than one cat have “pukey one”? And here I thought we were the only ones.

I think so, yes.

I think every home with no cat also has a “pukey one”, to be honest.

Our two share the pukey duty equally it seems. Luckily they don’t do it very often. Mostly during shedding season.

ours share it too. unluckily all the time during shedding season. and worst of all, their favorite time of day to do it is while we’re asleep at night at like 3am, either right on the bed or right where i put my feet when i get out of bed. :b the first time that happened, husband was in the shower and heard a loud curse word from the bedroom when half awake i stepped in it. now i know to check before getting out of bed. oh cats. “you’re lucky you’re cute!” i only-half-jokingly tease at them.

Our pukey one is majorly pukey. The others do it much more rarely. We took him to the vet and the vet said there’s really no medical explanation. I suspect bulemia.

A friend was just telling me that she read somewhere that if you raise up their food bowl up about 6" or so, so that they don’t have to bend over all the way to eat, and it helps with the puking. She said it worked for her. I’m thinking about trying it. Pukey Penny was puking only occasionally for a while, but he’s back to puking a lot again.

Interesting. We’ll have to try that.

yeah, thanks for the tip! i will try that…

It could be over-eating, maybe. Luna has done that when she was younger, eating far far too quickly and then the whole thing came up again and you could easily see how some of the pellets had just been swallowed whole. They have a ‘food maze’ now, where I pour both their portions in at the top and then they have to use their paws to get the food out. Slows down the eating pace a lot and entertains the cats. It’s a bit noisy while they eat, but it’s cute to watch.

“Good for you you’re so cute!” Oh I know that statement well. It was directed at Luna when she attempted DIY surgery by removing all her stitches two days after having been spayed so that we had to go and have her re-stitched. By the emergency vet. On a Saturday evening. In the next town over. By taxi. And pick her up again the next morning. By taxi. (We didn’t have a car then and public transport would have taken three times as long) That little adventure cost almost as much as the intial spaying and ear tatooing of two cats!

Steepster broke? This is the last tasting note. For some reason on my tealog page it has 8 likes, but on recent page, only 3 likes.

Nope, this actually is the newest note still. :P

I find there’s usually a delay with updates on the newest notes page. I assume it’s a caching thing.

yep, cache

oh no! I just tried to look up Yezi tea and it looks like they don’t exist anymore! Darn. Their teas were good.