We went to visit Bern, walked through the botanical gardens, saw the bears, drank hot chocolate and finally went to see friends for dinner.
But before going there, we had set aside an hour to buy tea at Länggass Tee. We drank three different kinds of pu-ehr tea and I ended up buying a cake.
It is only now as we’re sitting in the train home that I see on their homepage that they got some Dongpian Oolong from Taiwan: A Li Shan Dong Pian 阿里山冬片 and Gu Keng Dong Pian 古坑冬. Should have bought some! Oh, and they bought some Korean tea, too! Ha Dong Dae Jak 河东大雀 하동대작, Ha Dong Se Jak 河东细雀 하동세작 and Jirisan Wu Jeon 智异山雨前 지리산우전.
Next time I really should read the website *before* we go visit, not on the way home.
Here’s what I bought:
I still have three bags of tea open, but I also don’t come often to Bern too often, so this is what I’ll be drinking in the coming year. 🍵
I also had to explain to my wife how little I knew and that I knew true tea nerds on fedi like @babelcarp@social.tchncs.de who runs Babel Carp, “a Chinese Tea Lexicon”.
#Tea
But first, drinking some Wu Yi Oolong Grade 1.
Sencha Uji Special: Good, nice sencha tea. Smooth.
Gang Kou Cha Meer Oolong (100g) 港口茶: I liked the mineral quality of it. For lack of a better term I'll call it "salty".
Bai Hao Wu Long, Oriental Beauty (50g) 东方美人 白毫鸟龙: I've started drinking it and it somehow feels bland. Perhaps a minute of the first steep is not long enough.
Ye Lai Xiang, Phoenix Single Bush (50g) 凤凰单丛 夜来香: I'm having my first cup right now and it also feels a bit bland. I might have to increase my steeping time.
Pu Er Sheng Bing Gu Shu Cha, Manzhuang 2013 (375g) 普洱生饼古树茶 曼: I've been drinking this one for a while and have no intention of stopping. I like it! I remember when I started drinking it, I preferred the flowery Jinggu 景谷 生茶 2018, but now I'm not so sure.
