(Karsten) wrote in message . com...
Hi all,
let me send you greetings from Menghai/Yunnan, the capital of Pu-Erh
tea.
I spent the last three weeks in this wonderful province, mostly
hunting for tea (and drinking truckloads), Yixing pots, ...
Even for a tealover it can easily get too much here with a couple 100s
(estimated 500+) of teashops alone in Kunming - the capital.
As I've been hunting for weeks I've been invited to at least 50
full-blown gongfu sessions with ALL kinds of tea (mostly excellent
Pu-Erhs and Oolongs -one guy even gongfued the Shincha-Sencha he
discovered in my backpack, he'll never do this again, hehe).
There are a lot of stories to be told, as well as some myths to be
shattered (Yixing teapots). In the next couple of weeks I'll try to
set up a tiny webpage (address posted to this group) with some
information on tea-shopping in Yunnan, Yixing-Pots, Pu-Erh teas, where
to look, how not to be ripped off (impossible!), you name it.

PS: Pu-Erh cha really got me hooked. After sampling unnumerable cups
of all kinds of Pu-Erh including some stone-age stuff (telling from
the taste) I can't live without it any longer :-)

Cheers,
Karsten

I am really looking forward to any posts you might write about your
yunnan experience. I too am a puer junky. I'm thinking of making a
trip to buy wholesale lots of newish green puer wheels one of these
years soon. I hope your trip continues to go well.

Regards,

Cameron