I came across a Chinese translated website that mentioned 心形
xinxing heart shape puer. I assume it is something like the Valentine
boxes. Has anybody seen anything that could fit the description?

Thanks,
Jim

Xia Guan's Mushroom compressed tea. It was also known as Cow's Heart

Danny


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I came across a Chinese translated website that mentioned ??
xinxing heart shape puer. I assume it is something like the Valentine
boxes. Has anybody seen anything that could fit the description?

Thanks,
Jim

Thanks Danny. I see a mushroom but do the Chinese also see a cow's
heart with different characters. Or did XG make the head first which
might look like a heart and add the stem later for a mushroom. I make
curry stews with beef heart and it doesn't remind me of a mushroom.

Jim

samarkand wrote:
Xia Guan's Mushroom compressed tea. It was also known as Cow's Heart

Danny


"Space Cowboy" wrote in message
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I came across a Chinese translated website that mentioned ??
xinxing heart shape puer. I assume it is something like the Valentine
boxes. Has anybody seen anything that could fit the description?

Thanks,
Jim

Some called it 'Niu Xin Tuo' - a little confusing - a tuo-shaped tea that
also looks like a cow's heart. I've never seen a cow's heart before, so I
can't comment on the similarities. It also looks like a mushroom too. The
tea was compressed with the mushroom head and stem together, and exported to
Tibet regions.

Danny


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Thanks Danny. I see a mushroom but do the Chinese also see a cow's
heart with different characters. Or did XG make the head first which
might look like a heart and add the stem later for a mushroom. I make
curry stews with beef heart and it doesn't remind me of a mushroom.

Jim

samarkand wrote:
Xia Guan's Mushroom compressed tea. It was also known as Cow's Heart

Danny


"Space Cowboy" wrote in message
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I came across a Chinese translated website that mentioned ??
xinxing heart shape puer. I assume it is something like the Valentine
boxes. Has anybody seen anything that could fit the description?

Thanks,
Jim

Maybe no mushrooms in Shangri-la. Officer that's not a button but a
cow's heart. I'll drop me a NinXinTuo better yet drink it.

Jim

samarkand wrote:
Some called it 'Niu Xin Tuo' - a little confusing - a tuo-shaped tea that
also looks like a cow's heart. I've never seen a cow's heart before, so I
can't comment on the similarities. It also looks like a mushroom too. The
tea was compressed with the mushroom head and stem together, and exported to
Tibet regions.

Danny

samarkand wrote:
Some called it 'Niu Xin Tuo' - a little confusing - a tuo-shaped tea that
also looks like a cow's heart. I've never seen a cow's heart before, so I
can't comment on the similarities. It also looks like a mushroom too.

I've eaten a number of cow hearts (not to mention dissecting one in
7th-grade science class), as well as a few zillion mushrooms. It's hard
to imagine a shape that would resemble both of them. Maybe poetic license?

-DM

Agreed, it has to be poetic license.

I was treated to a 'fungi' buffet recently with the largest assortment of
mushrooms I've ever seen - among the exotic names are 'Chicken Thigh'
mushrooms & 'Monkey Head' mushrooms, and then there were the regular ones
such as 'Golden Needle' mushrooms, 'Cloud Ear' mushrooms...

definitely a good measure of poetic license here...

Danny

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samarkand wrote:
Some called it 'Niu Xin Tuo' - a little confusing - a tuo-shaped tea that
also looks like a cow's heart. I've never seen a cow's heart before, so
I can't comment on the similarities. It also looks like a mushroom too.

I've eaten a number of cow hearts (not to mention dissecting one in
7th-grade science class), as well as a few zillion mushrooms. It's hard to
imagine a shape that would resemble both of them. Maybe poetic license?

-DM

Tibetans called it a "cow heart" so that Hindu police in Himalayas would
not want to take a usual percentage cut from a caravan.

Sasha.


"samarkand" wrote in message
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Agreed, it has to be poetic license.

I was treated to a 'fungi' buffet recently with the largest assortment of
mushrooms I've ever seen - among the exotic names are 'Chicken Thigh'
mushrooms & 'Monkey Head' mushrooms, and then there were the regular ones
such as 'Golden Needle' mushrooms, 'Cloud Ear' mushrooms...

definitely a good measure of poetic license here...

Danny

"DogMa" wrote in message
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samarkand wrote:
Some called it 'Niu Xin Tuo' - a little confusing - a tuo-shaped tea
that also looks like a cow's heart. I've never seen a cow's heart
before, so I can't comment on the similarities. It also looks like a
mushroom too.

I've eaten a number of cow hearts (not to mention dissecting one in
7th-grade science class), as well as a few zillion mushrooms. It's hard
to imagine a shape that would resemble both of them. Maybe poetic
license?

-DM

....& they would provide special escort to safe guard the hearts of holy
cows!

:")

Danny


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Tibetans called it a "cow heart" so that Hindu police in Himalayas would
not want to take a usual percentage cut from a caravan.

Sasha.