/ck/ - Food & Cooking

This thread is for discussing teas, tisanes, and other herbal infusions.

info: types of tea, where to get tea, how to brew tea
https://rentry.org/teageneral

previous thread: >>20557961

>>20150222
yunnansourcing has the biggest selection and some of the most newbie-friendly descriptions for teas. kingteamall is another big site like that. for smaller sites, farmerleaf is popular here, mostly for sheng pu-erh. but check out the vendor list in the pastebin

if you want the really alien wet stored stuff that tastes like beetroot, ginseng and old furniture, there are stores like yeeontea too, and liquidproust stocks a few truly bizarre items scrounged up from god knows where

you can probably get a small glass teapot or gaiwan on one of these sites or on aliexpress, if you want to observe the leaves

>>19260199
this one of course. should still be available at Liquid Proust

>>19006261
here you go anon, guaranteed to not taste like shou

>>18928181
it's one of those "small, curated selection" sites. the idea is that you trade a wide selection of teas and price points for a more selective approach where the guy running the site chooses everything according to his taste
the guy who runs it is a bit of a weirdo, but he does seem to have a lot of rare stuff that would be hard to get in the west otherwise. I've never bought from him though cause the shipping costs to Europe are atrocious

did you take the *not fit for human consumption* pill yet, anons?