/ck/ - Food & Cooking

gonna have to buy more of this Tanyang shit sometime, it's one of the best black teas I've had, very intense and flavorful. interesting leaves too, they're very small for black tea

tried the bigger samples from my thetea.pl order already:
>Ai Lao Yesheng Hong Cha
strong aroma of blackcurrant. forest fruit and passion fruit flavors, a bit of pine resin and hops, especially in the aftertaste
light body, refreshing flavor
>Tanyang Gong Fu
aroma of buckwheat honey and gingerbread. flavors of chocolate, brown sugar, malty in a "stout beer" way and an interesting aftertaste of rum and coconut. rum-soaked Bounty chocolate bar?
thicker body, intense flavor
>Duoteli First Grade Liu Bao
my first younger liu bao. still has a bit of that savory beetroot note I've gotten from older liu bao, probably due to several years of factory ageing, but it also has the dark chocolate and roasted wood flavors I expect from a ripe pu-erh. I like the balance between those two. feels very clean and brews up clear, unlike the musty aged stuff I had before. has a nice, short sweet aftertaste to it, quite pleasant.

I'm liking all of these quite a bit. might look around and see if anyone's selling them for cheaper.

ordered some samples from thetea.pl
I've ordered some samples before and they were good, so decided to go for seconds. one of those curated stores with only fancy shit, but the prices seem typical for EU vendors. they offer a lot of aged oolong, but seems like a pricey rabit hole to go down