Elephant & Donkey

Walking from  the famous Embassy street,Washingston D C to the White House
come across this elephant and donkey wear the USA flags.. but why choose this two animals? can someone tell me WHY!

 

There are so many beautiful new and old buildings at the Embassy street besides the various foriegn  Embassy...

 

 

Puer Tea Trade Fair 2012

Lesson number one, never go to eat the famous Balakong Yong Tau Foo those good old days, those old days it sell Yong Tau Foo only, now it is selling more than 50 type of other dishes, the yong tau foo taste like shit...there 2 Leong Ya YTF all run by the same family bros n sisters...

After the horrible Yong Tau Foo lunch, we use the short cut tunnel to go the MIECC, suppose to take 5 minutes but due to public holidays great trafic jam, it took us more than an hour..Lesson 2 never go to such trade fair during public holidays, if go go early...B4 the jam start.

However at the fair we are entertain to puer tea tasting by those eager tea merchants.

Shou Kong must be enjoying his cup of RM500 per 1 kg old liu bao cha..

We test tasted 2 puer tea at the Legend of the Tea which was located inside the book fair hall... 

Lai our great puer collector checking up with the GSA for those popular brand about the new wrapping packaging etc, he had quite a number of stacks of this practicuar brand 2001-2005, sure happy as the prices now higher...

Bamboo casing puer tea log

The bamboo casing are hand make by the mountain tribes beside the puer tea it is a lovely village handicraft from Yunnan. 

to take the puer log you need to cut off the top, there is just no other choice, otherwise can keep a whole bammboo casing...

Quite a nice raw puer tea consider the price of 1 kg for only ...
i recall purchased in 2009 that the test tasting not very good, but still decided to buy as it was around Chinese New Year and wanted to hang it up as decoration..

The taste now in 2012 was good and can after mixing with other ripe puer tea, it provide me a nice different taste money can't buy..

 

Hei Cha/Dark Tea

This one kg hand pressed Hei Cha in Mandarin but Dark tea in English but I think it should be name Black tea  as Hei mean Black.

The tea leaves are black but the tea broth light golden color refreshing taste and very smooth, no wonder it is the ancient Silk Road routes tea as merchants travelling through desert require to drink this Hei Cha to prevent dehydration etc.

Hei Cha look like puer tea but it is not puer tea as the the technic use different from puer tea, its technic create Jinhua ( gold flower) grander colony that generate good enzeme for the tea.

 

 

 

Ceramic Tea set

Lovely ceramic tea set hand painted, I should buy it...

 

 

 

Ceramic Tea Pot set.

This set only selling for RM90 with 6 cups,pitcher tea pot, filter and buffallo filter stand, if at Tea shop asking price should be RM250 above..

This ceramic tea set price with tea pot and 6 cups and pitcher price RM120, design n ceramic seem higher grade than the above.

This set only RM58 cn get it at RM40, most the ceramic items by China merchant normally set up their businesses at some shopping complext etc, their tea set, tea pot etc are cheaper in prices..

 

 

Aged Commrades Puer Cake Fake/Real

Can any one tell me which one is the Real?