You mean there is an illegal, underground, lethal verion of this
stuff? I'd have to think if you're going too bother you'd produce
something that is non toxic so you'd have a customer the next time.
I'm calling HomeLand Security right now. Everytime you read a post
someone is uping the ante blah blah blah with the lastest one
upmanship a master for the gullible masses. It's the east pulling the
west's leg. It's the chai fad of a couple of years ago. What next
bubble puerh? You can't fool me with your only one on the block taste
in tea. Does anyone remember Darjeeling white? Hundreds of posts
with everyone blabbering about how great their free samples tasted
from the one and only plantation in India producing the stuff. So now
we have a claim of tossing out all other teas and only drinking this
stuff. Hogwash. At best this is just another taste for your
repertoire. You'll miss your Lipton's Yellow Label when you see it
behind the tea urn where they on purpose misplace the achar when you
eat at an Indian restaurant. I'll wait out the fad and buy it at my
local discount store for the 05 year end holidays. Mysterious Chinese
wrapping is a big seller. It'll go great with my $10 tetsubins from
last Christmas already in the discount stores for the holidays.

Jim

wrote in message >...
> The mold you find on a Pu-erh should be a white
> one, not a black one!!! Different mold can
> develop on a Pu-erh when it is placed in
> different environment. Some are good, some are
> BAD. The good apsergillus we Chinese talk about
> is NOT aspergillus niger. Not a black mold!
>
> It is believed that a Pu-erh has to go through
> the process of developing white mold, then
> letting it disappear. Only after a Pu-erh gone
> through the whole process, it is considered
> completely aged.
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