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Also yes, would love to see the video of you going through the yiwu flights

Im on this journey on converting my wife from drinking sodas and southern sweet tea, so far the only one she hasn't turned sour on is some Gongmei but she says its only just drinkable. Still amuses me the face she made when she tried a cooked puerh.

I appreciate you making this more accessible for starting people. This seems like a tea that would be great after a few years of sleeping in the tea closet. At this price it would almost be worth getting two, one to drink now one to see what it tastes like in just a few years.

Your wife is funny. Lol

Such creative angles, great videos man! Love drinking good tea!

The less peaceful part is trying to neatly wrap the cake back up again. lol at least for me

The butt one !!!

When you spoke about the porosity of yixing, I think you might be leaving out zhuni which can be closer to porcelain than many other types of yixing because of the firing temperature and high kiln shrinkage rate.

here I thought it looked like river rocks.. seductive is one way to look at it lol

The blue red contrast is GORGEOUS... ❤❤

Consider me seduced (that's a fiiiiine matcha bowl 😍)

You could buy a variable temp kettle or. . . you could get a beautiful Chaozhou kettle

Dang nvm watched the whole video lol

Can I have a cup? 🥺

I dont really count steeps, I just go until the flavor is gone or I am full.

Wait I would also like to Guess it's an Andrew Santorius tea bowl

Heh tea-ser

Hohoho I like green

Nice, love the phone tap lol

I forgot to suggest a pace counter/ ranger beads might help so even if you drop it, it'll still keep its count.

Have your guests roll initiative on who gets to drink first. NGL, threw me off when a d20 popped on the screen, thought it was gonna be Dan Cong and Dragons.

jacob sagittarius popped tf off

I have the name of a potter.

Mfw I didn’t even realize that it was a competition

wait how is it one of the best surprise teas if you hadn't yet tasted it LOL

The essence of an artist in 3D form, teapots as sculptures: yes! 👌👌

Gyokuro

Dunno but that's looking like some Bitterleaf year of the dragon 2024 raw

I like a good white tea cake as well. Probs my favorite

White tea

Wat

Not to come off as a smart alec, but I don't understand why you wouldn't store them in the box it came in and leave the packing material in the box with the teapots? It seems safer to store them as they arrived in a tote stacked on top of one another. Am I missing something here? However, I totally understand that you want to unpack and inspect each one to ensure they are in tact.

The funny thing is Gai wan in Chinese means cover bowl. It’s really accurate, people mostly use this method for kung fu tea, meaning tea that is made with a lot of effort.

The answer use to be a lipton teabag for me, now it's a nixing clay pot, the city bell to be exact lol

I was searching for more information about Japanese Ido-Dawan which is actually from Korean Mak-geureut(rice bowl). +_+ Thank you so much for the video! >.<

I still brew occasionally with a larger pot when I’m making something that can handle high temperatures or if being brewed an extra long time won’t affect it, say a white tea that doesn’t get too astringent or what have you, but since I got into gong fu and discovered gaiwans, I have to say, there is something about the level of precision it affords me that I like. I can choose the exact moment I’m done brewing, but I can also agitate the leaves a bit too which I have a tradition of doing every time I refill the gaiwan. I would say the fit in my gaiwan is almost perfect though. And I agree that a lot look very similar, so I just bought my second set that looks like an orange 🍊 lol it’s incredibly unique and I got it off Etsy. So you can still get some unique things if you look but I get what you’re saying

As a third-culture-kid this resonates. I was born in London and grew up in the mountains in the states and later returned to the UK. I feel more American than English and so much reminds me of what I call my home (Cali).

Nah, I slog down my tea.

I actually prefer a little bigger at 100ml. 50ml feels so small D:

As some one who recently bought there first couple tea pots and gaiwans this is really great information and definitely makes me feel comfortable buying off your shop I've been wanting to get a pot to season for cooked pureh

What about oxygen content in the water

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I have one like that from Greater Goods on Amazon and it works great.

The editing…love the phone filling up the jar! 👏👏

I love the way you talk to a novice. You seemed to be a great teacher. Thanks for this video learned I a lot.

Generally it’s not a good idea, most products for kitchenware are bare for a reason. Your best hopes might be a natural blueing process or anodizing but both require specific alloys.

ifixit mentioned!

Drill a hole in the bottom, plant something in it, put it outside. Get a couple of corks and glue them to the lid like a mushroom for nice decoration! Now it's useful again

I prefer an electric kettle 😊

"wheather it is a chouzhou or yixing doesn't matter" eh... disagree. if all you want is a pot to dip your toes in best bet is glass or porcelain. otherwise the type of clay or origin will change the taste. my first pot was yixing purple. a good pot for fermented tea but with other teas it made them bland. reciently i found a nixing pot and works well for black, green olong, even chinese green teas. preserves the flavor, thickens the tea and adds a bit of the taste of the clay giving it a refreshing zing to it.