It’s early days yet but this tea has taken a pleasant turn.  

  A different level of ripe puerh tea.  

  A collection of old teas

  Full teacakes and bricks giveaway with your purchases. 20 years is a long time but looking back time really does fly when you are doi...

Appreciating the visual beauty of the tea leaf. A close up look at the beauty and transformation of various type/category of tea from ...

“7581” classic ripe puerh tea from Kunming Tea Factory. The different batches of 7581 produced can be hit and miss when it comes to qua...

Gong Ting (aka Golden Needle) is a special grade of RIPE that contains a high content of buds. Only select batches of ripe puerh tea is ma...

GET MORE TEAS WITH YOUR ORDER I am excited to introduce the Tea Samples Catalog to the blog. As a tea lover I have always enjoyed havi...

The Golden Needle White Lotus (GNWL) series represent a line of premium ripe puerh produced by Menghai Tea Factory. The production can b...

     Magic happens when fatty porky goodness meets age ripe puerh tea.

  The 2010 Menghai Hong Yun is a ripe tea that is compressed into100g mini teacakes. Inset: Roasting requires constant motion of tossing a...

Whilst I am a purist at heart, in life there are exceptions and the combination of ripe puerh tea and honey (+ milk is optional) is so del...

The name of the Thai food stall Nai Mong Hoi Thod translates to "Mr Mong's Fried Shellfish". The signature dishes are the oy...

This tea was given to me by a friend over the weekend. It is an old tin carton containing loose leaf puerh tea from Ying Kee Tea House b...

The Menghai Tea Factory is the standard bearer for ripe puerh tea. Menghai is one of two factories that pioneered the production of ri...

In the following weeks I will be posting a number of teas from the Menghai Tea Factory. Before I begin with the teas I feel it is importa...