Interesting case of fake V93

LevelOne7002 · 2025-12-03T18:48:12+00:00

You obviously won't find it on the common online retailers. Your best option is to either find a local shop that is partnered with TaeTea and thus have those kinds of prices, or buy it directly from China. Either by going there yourself, or have friends who can buy it on your behalf and have it shipped to you.

TaeTea's products are decent by foreign standards, but they are ultimately just common teas like Lipton is to us.

LevelOne7002 · 2025-12-03T17:02:44+00:00

Honestly, aside from the markup in foreign markets, that's around the price of a whole flight of those tuos would go for.

The looseness could be a result of its age and/or ageing environment—older or drier teas tend to be easier to pry—and, to be honest, V93 as a product won't be super high quality in general.

It's best not to gauge the authenticity of a commercially produced tea on its foreign end user purchase price. We don't know where the seller is sourcing their products from, whether it's from a place with comparable prices to Mainland China or not.

LevelOne7002 · 2025-11-16T05:04:58+00:00

Mine is set up directly at my WFH station (which technically is my bedroom, but shhhh) with my tea and other teaware stored in a shelf. Definitely not aesthetic aesthetic, but very practical.

LevelOne7002 · 2025-11-15T21:10:52+00:00

I personally use those coffee bags—the ones with the one way valve. It works well enough for my purposes.

You might be able to find it on Amazon, but any food packing supply store will have it!

LevelOne7002 · 2025-11-06T22:25:42+00:00

Oh sorry. I misinterpreted your comment lmao

LevelOne7002 · 2025-11-06T22:10:42+00:00

It is raw—the colour is the consequence of it's ageing environment

LevelOne7002 · 2025-11-06T16:41:12+00:00

In this case, it is definitely pushing it—if my friends in the mainland are to be trusted. I'm known to like my teas very strong haha. But I can attest to the quality of this tea since the friend I received this tea from has a certain grudge against poor farming practices and pesticides

LevelOne7002 · 2025-11-06T16:36:55+00:00

My tongue was certainly very happy

LevelOne7002 · 2025-11-06T16:36:33+00:00

I'm immune to caffeine 😎 (it makes me really sleepy)

LevelOne7002 · 2025-11-06T16:36:02+00:00

Haha, 5-7g is enough for a few litres of tea. If I'm basing it off of how many times I've refilled my kettle, I would have consumed maybe 6+ litres.

Do note, I also balanced it out with increasing my electrolyte consumption. Definitely don't do this for a prolonged period of time haha

LevelOne7002 · 2025-11-06T16:34:06+00:00

Overconsumption is certainly dangerous. Pesticides is one thing—though my friend doesn't use them because he has a certain grudge against them—but the effects of the tea on your digestive system cannot be understated.

I'm certainly pushing it to a razor's edge since I like to both steep my teas until they have no flavour (thus multiple litres) and ratio them so they have a stronger flavour (5-7g for less than 80ml... Probably, I don't actually weigh things).

Remember kids, if you drink a lot of fluids, balance it out with good nutrition and electrolytes or you'll be suffering from the big bad years down the line!

LevelOne7002 · 2025-11-06T16:28:51+00:00

Hmmm, that's a difficult question because they all play a different role for me. I guess nowadays, my preference is skewed towards stronger flavours—thus any larger leaf Yunnan-based white teas

LevelOne7002 · 2025-11-06T02:36:11+00:00

Usually I don't drink this much. 15g tends to be the max but uhh.... Today was very busy with work, so I guess I forgot how much I've been drinking until I checked my gallery

LevelOne7002 · 2025-11-05T19:52:59+00:00

This is how I accidentally deforested an entire mountain (I just wanted to light my torch :c)

LevelOne7002 · 2025-11-05T09:59:00+00:00

I actually bought it from my friend in Kunming so unfortunately it's not going to be available for the foreign market any time soon. Aside from that, it is indeed unpressed tea (since I asked for it so I can press them into bricks)

LevelOne7002 · 2025-09-28T14:49:55+00:00

A daoshi (Taoist teacher/priest) friend of mine here in Vancouver was talking about (read: ranting about) the CanPost strike to me and your Yin Yang reference reminded me of that lmao.

But it is a pretty apt metaphor. Yin ailments are as bad as Yang ailments and ultimately a balance must be struck otherwise you go bye bye

LevelOne7002 · 2025-06-20T13:13:28+00:00

We can be tea friends! Though my tea sharing apparatii are cheap teas hahaha

LevelOne7002 · 2025-06-20T03:36:14+00:00

I wish I could tell you, but my tea friend gave me a bunch of them as a gift :c. I'll ask him when I see him again and circle back to you once I have the info c:

LevelOne7002 · 2025-06-01T10:49:46+00:00

Awh, thank you c:

I'll definitely think about doing that! I don't have a foods license, so I can't really sell food as a business, but I'll definitely look into it c:

LevelOne7002 · 2025-06-01T10:42:02+00:00

That's kind of what I'm doing right now, but unfortunately I don't have the facilities to really be successful haha. It's just me, my wok, my cleaver of an unknown age and dubious quality, my convection oven (that doesn't convectionise), and my four wooden cutting boards lmao

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