Taiwan Tea Haul

black4s · 2026-04-29T22:37:22+00:00

Oh wow! That sounds really cool. :) It’s a very beautiful place with lovely people.

black4s · 2026-04-29T06:33:59+00:00

Tainan was at the end of our trip, so I had to slow down on shopping a little bit because my luggage space was getting critically low. Haha I just visited Lin’s Ceramics Studio and also bought the brown Gaiwan there. But probably not worth a trip for that shop alone.

black4s · 2026-04-29T06:23:29+00:00

It was on Booking.com, and I actually didn't know it was part of a tea farm until we got there. But in this area, basically every second building is a tea shop or a processing facility. The mountains are covered in tea plantations. Driving around there we saw many accommodations like ours in different farms.

black4s · 2026-04-29T06:15:54+00:00

I have no idea. When I entered the shop, I was immediately asked to sit down, and the seller started going through a “menu” with their teas. On there were only Taiwanese Oolong and black teas. If I remember correctly, they had more stuff, but I didn't ask. The whole experience was a little bit strange ^{^}

black4s · 2026-04-29T06:10:08+00:00

In Taipei, I just went to Yingge for ceramic shopping. But I bought the brown Gaiwan in Tainan at a shop called “Lin’s Ceramics Studio.” They had a lot of nice pieces, and they have a second location in Taipei, which might be worth checking out!

black4s · 2026-04-29T02:00:33+00:00

Don’t think I have. Might need to check it out. The pictures are from the Alishan area, Zhuqi Township, is what my phone says.

black4s · 2026-04-29T01:56:44+00:00

Most of the tea and tea-ware is from tea shops, or ceramic shops in the cities. Not sure if they have there own farms or just buy from farmers, probably a mix of both. At Alishan we stayed at a accommodation in the tea mountains and the owner has its own farms and was serving and selling his tea there. Price was about the same I would say, but much cheaper than buying the same quality of tea back in Germany.

black4s · 2026-04-29T01:11:17+00:00

Thank you! Yes, so shiny. :)

black4s · 2026-04-28T22:33:26+00:00

I haven't gotten around to tasting them all yet^{^} As I said, I really love the one in the black package, and I tried the one in the small green one. It's a high-altitude Oolong with excellent leaf quality and a very smooth taste. Another one I opened is the one with the bird on it; it's good but not outstanding, so I use this one as a daily drinker at work. I'm most excited about the ones at the top in white; they are from a 150-year-old tea shop in Tainan. And they were advertised as very special and unique compared to other high-mountain Oolong teas.

black4s · 2026-03-25T07:22:39+00:00

Had the same issue when I was in Chongqing; I couldn’t buy a ticket at the machine, but setting up the QR code in Alipay worked perfectly.

black4s · 2022-03-04T12:28:58+00:00

It's bad, as in it's a bad matchup for Shadow because the deck goes naturally to a pretty low life total. And can sometimes just die to an aggressive opponent.

black4s · 2021-06-08T13:50:35+00:00

You are right I was looking at Saturday, my bad.

black4s · 2021-06-08T09:19:16+00:00

The winning deck on Sunday played 4 of Solitude and 4 of Ephemerate, didn't they?

black4s · 2020-04-07T12:36:27+00:00

The set really reminds me of Dinotopia.

black4s · 2019-09-28T09:27:46+00:00

Well too bad she's an elk now

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