That is a lot, but good tea is soooo good.

Yeah it’s quite tasty and I recommend it. I’m even tempted to go for their Gulan cake after I get through this one, which is supposed to be the fancier version of this cake. At $150 for the 357g cake though, I’ll need to do a little more convincing myself to pull the trigger, but I bet it’ll be worth it based on how good this one is.

Oh, never heard of this one. It sounds very good.

Sounds tasty! I’ll have to give that a try

Lasagna is best, cottage cheese and or ricotta mixed with lots and lots of chopped stinging nettle and pasta sauce. It's a good spinach substitute.

That sounds yummy. I haven’t done nettle tea, but I like a good pine or fir shoot tea. So fresh and full of vitamin C. I do like putting stinging nettles on a pizza or roasted with some chicken though. Always cool to find a fellow forager!

Yeah, I'm not taking a gaiwan to work, lol. Even taking my Finum basket is a nuisance.

I've just been doing fresh stinging nettle, a lot shoved in a mason jar, maybe with some white pine or spruce shoots.

Nice, let me know what ya think! And yeah, using the gaiwan is nice, but it can be inconvenient sometimes! This tea is perfect for those busy days when you just want a tasty no-fuss brew

Oh, I just bought this! I haven't tried it yet. One of the selling points for me is grandpa style, because it's such a convenient method of consuming tea at work.

Ha yeah it’s a nice one. Idk where my friends got it from, otherwise I’d let ya know where to pick one up for yourself. I always find myself trying to untangle the white strings on the edges of the placemat whenever I visit them

Glad to hear that! Hopefully our posts can inspire even more people to post their reviews

That placemat tho 🤌

It really is a wonderful tea, though! I got offered many boxes of tea last time I was in Wuhan and so far my favourite was the duck shit, haha! I'm definitely getting more if I get a chance.

Awesome! Always good to see you around. You're consistency lately has helped remind me to review tea lol.

Sounds delicious! I might have to order a canister

Ha thanks! Unfortunately that came from a giant sticker pile at work and I’m not sure where it was sourced from. But agreed, Hank Hill in party mode is hilarious haha

Dammit, that sticker is sick, and I want one lol

I think it depends on the tea! With this one, it has absolutely zero bitterness or astringency that other black teas can get when oversteeped, so I just leave the leaves in the mug and keep topping up with more hot water when it gets low.

We have another black tea that my partner will do 1-2min on because it does start to get oversteeped for her. I’ll usually do 3min with that one because I like it a little stronger, but I can’t leave the leaves in indefinitely like with this jinjunmei.

How long do you steep black tea? All my sources are saying like 3 mins but to me that's too long. It gets that zing that other teas get when oversteeped. But then 30 sec I use for all the other styles is too short for black

After finishing the cold brew, I was able to get a few more hot brews out of the leaves. These leaves have got a lot of juice in them!

Yancha is a category of oolong from the Wuyi mountains.

And yeah I’ll probably start brewing mine at lower temps now too! 95 was good for the first couple steeps, but once the leaves opened up a bit it just got to be too much.

What is yancha oolong?

dropping the temp a couple degrees down to 90c

With oolongs I rather keep in 80-90 area, that 95 to me sounded like too hot from the start

Please do! I’d like to see what you’ve been drinking lately.

For sure! It's cool that I inspired you! I ought to review some of the teas I got recently.