Well, as I was chipping off a chunk from my Pu Er cake today
for my morning tea, imagine my surprise and delight to find
a little curled white feather sticking out from deep inside
the cake!

I think it's a chicken feather.

Has anyone else found any "surprise bonus gifts" in thier Pu
Er before?

I'm keeping this one. Maybe there's a beak or a foot in
there somewhere! Exciting!

Thanks,
Troy
..

Troy Howard wrote:

Has anyone else found any "surprise bonus gifts" in thier Pu Er
before?

Some folks claim they've found "deliciousness" in Puerh. Miraculous.

--crymad

How hot of water and how long a steep does one need to kill bird flu?

In article ,
Troy Howard wrote:

Well, as I was chipping off a chunk from my Pu Er cake today
for my morning tea, imagine my surprise and delight to find
a little curled white feather sticking out from deep inside
the cake!

I think it's a chicken feather.

Well, look at it this way. Now, when you're enticing people
to try pu'erh for the first time, you can say it kinda tastes like
chicken!

Honestly though, I find it a little disturbing. What other body parts
might be lurking within? Hmmm..............................p*

I found a little toy plastic car in mine. And in another I found a couple
of little press-on tattoos.

i've never found anything quite so exotic, but i have found the odd
human hair on occasion...

In article ,
Troy Howard wrote:
Well, as I was chipping off a chunk from my Pu Er cake today
for my morning tea, imagine my surprise and delight to find
a little curled white feather sticking out from deep inside
the cake!

I think it's a chicken feather.

Has anyone else found any "surprise bonus gifts" in thier Pu
Er before?

No, but once I found a very large and dessicated roach in a box of
Mumtaz tea. It had clearly been compressed in the block.
--scott

--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

(Scott Dorsey) writes:

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[...]
Has anyone else found any "surprise bonus gifts" in thier Pu
Er before?

No, but once I found a very large and dessicated roach in a box of
Mumtaz tea. It had clearly been compressed in the block.

I'm so glad you mentioned that. As it happens, I got a Mumtaz sample
yesterday from an acquaintance and drank it for breakfast today. As
far as I could tell, it wasn't an unusually high-protein breakfast, by
the way.

/Lew
---
Lew Perin /
http://www.panix.com/~perin/babelcarp.html

LOL!

Well.. I think this lends a definately exciting edge to the world of Pu
Er drinking. I'm really curious what kinds of critters I might find in
my next cake. In fact, I think I'll be disappointed if i don't find
something. Of course, I'm the sort of guy who willingly ate bugs,
lizards, snakes, and parts of animals usually discarded while I was in
China. Soo... Maybe I don't represent a typical reaction to this.

Thinking about it.. this probably lends creedence to the steam method
for breaking apart your cakes into loose leafs. This way, you'll have a
chance to pick through the whole cake, and find out what is, or is not,
in there. Not to mention just being a relaxing and nice smelling way to
spend 30 minutes or so.

-Troy Howard (aka Da Tong)

The worst I've found was recently when I did my first steamed
dismantling of a cake (reported he
http://www.livejournal.com/community/puerh_tea). I found two camellia
seeds, one small and one large, and one (camellia) flower.