Tiktok full on sold me hook, line and sinker on artisinal small batch chinese teas and like a good NPC 
I opened up my wallet and obliged.
This shit just looks so satisfying
I bought a full chinky tea set too cos apparently im a twee fruitcake
I can't wait til it gets here 
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I haven't washed my coffee mug in 6 months
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Dry aging
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Congrats on your transition
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pu erh tea eh
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Pu'er can be pretty good, but it's definitely in the "not for everyone" category. We got some "sticky rice" pu'er in Seattle a few years ago and that's probably among my favorites.
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i love it, it tastes refreshing to me
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Theyre sold out god fricking darn it
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I also found the sticky rice one at a local shop. It smells interesting but i havent tried it yet. Might go buy it today
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I saw those online, but idk what they are. What do they have to do with rice?
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They literally smell like wet rice.
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I got a red tea cake, some white tea bundles wrapped in mandarine skin and oolong that's been bitten by bugs
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I love the tea bricks aged inside
those tiny mandarins. So fun to plop in a cup.
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Ima buy those next they honestly make my mouth water
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I love a good oolong. https://yunnansourcing.com/collections/new-products
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TF is this "King of Duck Shit aroma"?
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Confuscianed success
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Bookmarked
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Forgot about these.
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Is it actually
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https://www.forbes.com/sites/megykarydes/2015/09/30/duck-shit-tea-haute-tea
it's not actually duck shit with regards to that tea but if you're looking for animal poop products there's this civet cat shit coffee that's very expensive: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kopi_luwak
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Ive heard most kopi luwak is fake nowadays
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Tea is a con. It looks fancy, it smells nice, but when it comes to drinking, it is always a letdown.
I haven't had a single tea live up to the expectations built when sniffing the freshly opened pack of leaves or the scent while brewing. It always just tastes like leaves.
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I don't disagree. It's just thag the whole chinese tea process is just so extra and appeals to my inner sperg.
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Oh ok well in that case great. You can just throw the leaf water away and enjoy the process.
Unironically my favourite part of making coffee is making the coffee. Drinking it is kind of just OK.
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I have a hand grinder for when I want to make espresso in the moka pot
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I too was recommended Jesses Tea Shop and purchased a gongfu tea set. Its pretty kino but as an espressoking im still searching for teas that I really like. I found an Oolong thats 10/10, but I'm trying to find white, red and pu'ers for variety.
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The tea in his videos makes my mouth water. I now follow some chinese tea lady too, hers are more informative and don't engage the consoomer part of my brain tho
I was so frickin choked the gongfu sampler was sold out you don't even know how bad I wanted it
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Just go to a local shop where you can actually smell. My shop sells samples for like $2 a pop. I bought like 12 of them and am slowly going through each of them one by one. Theres a puer or red (black) tea that was in the orange and got shredded which im excited to try.
Edit: it was shit
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All we have here is David's Tea, Teavana etc
I've never seen anything like this irl
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Everything near me save for 1 shop is boba so iktfb
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Same for me but with soap
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My wife has probably over $1000 in just teas, not even calculating all of her tea accessories.
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It's incredibly foid coded.
I just don't like all the teaslop flavors the western vendors have. I dont want something called beach bellini or mojito i want dry leaves picked and processed by purestrain chinks
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She also has a lot of disdain for the stuff western vendors put out. A lot of her collection is Chinese names I'm unsure how to pronounce.
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I tried to get into tea but half assed it. I tried to replace alcohol with calming tea but drinking it at night made me pee too much in the middle of the night. lol
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You gotta go whole hog. I ordered a tea set with the tray and little cups, the pitcher, filter thing and a gaiwan
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On the rare instance I make tea, I use a pot on the stove
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Not neurodivergent enough
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This makes me like you even more, dramabro. There was a guy at my last wagie job that would bring in this expensive tea and share. It was a great mid afternoon refresher. I don't like coffee but in the morning for a quick caffeine jolt, but tea is great in the afternoon.
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The whole process of making it makes you relax, ima do it on weekends, especially looking forward to summer now
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on one hand I like tea too
on the other tiktok srsly
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The algorithm tells me what to do
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If it's not lapsang souchong you better yeet that shit in the trash
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That sounds amazing
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