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Difflugia · 08-05-2016, 11:17 AM

Sort of generic Taiwanese high mountain oolong.

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Originally Posted by cromag

The tin says very little in English besides "Oolong" (which also appears in French), but there is quite a bit in Chinese.

I have a lot of tea like that. I often buy something unusual and look for reviews or impressions on the internet, but only find links are to an importer or a back corner of Amazon with no reviews or anything.

This is the package from the tea I'm drinking now: I like the tea and it was inexpensive for the quality, so I kept the bag. The bold Chinese says "high mountain tea" and on the bottom is what I think is a company name (山水茶園) that translates to "landscape tea plantation" or some such, but that's pretty much it.

poohbear_nc · 08-05-2016, 07:47 PM

Guinness Nitro IPA with my pizza ... the end of a hellishly long awful week ....

cromag · 08-05-2016, 09:36 PM

Last tea on a rushed day. This has been a very stressful and busy year so far, but a couple of major milestones have just been passed. Phew!

Quote:

Originally Posted by Difflugia

Sort of generic Taiwanese high mountain oolong.

I have a lot of tea like that. I often buy something unusual and look for reviews or impressions on the internet, but only find links are to an importer or a back corner of Amazon with no reviews or anything.

This is the package from the tea I'm drinking now: I like the tea and it was inexpensive for the quality, so I kept the bag. The bold Chinese says "high mountain tea" and on the bottom is what I think is a company name (山水茶園) that translates to "landscape tea plantation" or some such, but that's pretty much it.

Aside from "Oolong" the can does identify the source as "Fujian Blue Lake Foods." They seem to be a packager and exporter. Another big name among Chinese teas at the market is Golden Dragon Brand Tea -- not to be confused with Teavana's Golden Dragon Yellow tea.

And I think I've seen your tea on the shelf -- if not that exact one, then several very similar ones. The Taiwan teas have similar packaging.

CRussel · 08-06-2016, 12:30 AM

Not drinking tea tonight, but Lagavulin.

CRussel · 08-07-2016, 06:04 PM

Some lovely Keemun Panda. Smooth, full-bodied, very nice.

DiapDealer · 08-07-2016, 06:28 PM

Elijah Craig.
There was some left over after making the salmon glaze.

A litlle bourbon for the salmon...
A little bourbon for the human.
(and a little bit more bourbon for the human)

Difflugia · 08-08-2016, 10:20 AM

Taiwanese oolong.

cromag · 08-08-2016, 07:38 PM

A fresh bottle of Coke Zero.

DiapDealer · 08-08-2016, 08:00 PM

1893 Ginger Cola. My new sugary weakness.

CRussel · 08-08-2016, 08:04 PM

Now that's a new one on me.

Faux San Pellegrino here.

DiapDealer · 08-08-2016, 08:58 PM

Wrapping up the evening with Inca Tea's Peruvian Spiced Berry.

Luffy · 08-09-2016, 02:51 AM

half liter of Coke Zero.

ProfCrash · 08-09-2016, 08:46 AM

Seven Sons Pu Erh.

Finally starting to feel healthy again. An out of the blue asthma attack at the beginning of July seems to have led to a month of small crap that kept adding up and ended with an ear infection and a cold doing its damndest to become bronchitis. Ugggghhhh So a Z Pack, steroid pack (that was a new one), infuser, two allergy meds and four bags of cough drops later I am celebrating two days in a row without a cough and praying for the ringing in my ear to stop completely.

It's not like I have been ignoring any of this. I went to the Doctor but each time we started to get one thing under control something stupid came up and set it all back. Just a pain in the ass.

And then I felt like crap complaining because it really was all minor, but with threats of building to something larger, because my FIL is in the hospital with massive chemo hoping to get to the point where he can have a stem cell transplant which makes constant coughing and a cold with ear infection with asthma seem like not a whole heck of a lot.

So I am glad July is gone and August is looking better and I remembered that my husbands birthday is tomorrow in enough time to get his gifts off of Amazon and delivered in enough time.

Just scattered, really scattered.

Wrong thread, right? I just feel more at home here then the Vent thread

CRussel · 08-09-2016, 12:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ProfCrash

Seven Sons Pu Erh.

I wish I had developed a taste for Pu Erh. I really should try a couple more. But then, I have so many teas right now, it's hard to convince myself there's a need. (Right, like THAT ever stopped me!)

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Finally starting to feel healthy again. An out of the blue asthma attack at the beginning of July seems to have led to a month of small crap that kept adding up and ended with an ear infection and a cold doing its damndest to become bronchitis. Ugggghhhh So a Z Pack, steroid pack (that was a new one), infuser, two allergy meds and four bags of cough drops later I am celebrating two days in a row without a cough and praying for the ringing in my ear to stop completely.

It's not like I have been ignoring any of this. I went to the Doctor but each time we started to get one thing under control something stupid came up and set it all back. Just a pain in the ass.

And then I felt like crap complaining because it really was all minor, but with threats of building to something larger, because my FIL is in the hospital with massive chemo hoping to get to the point where he can have a stem cell transplant which makes constant coughing and a cold with ear infection with asthma seem like not a whole heck of a lot.

Any idea what triggered the attack? Is it anything that you can control? If only by recognizing that it's happening or about to happen and doubling up on the inhalers?

I am on Symbicort and it acts as a kind of self-adjusting dosage. Because I use it as both my maintenance (steroid, budesonide) and attack response (bronchodialator, formoterol), whenever I have an attack, I'm also automatically getting more of the maintenance corticosteroid which helps fight the current irritant.

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So I am glad July is gone and August is looking better and I remembered that my husbands birthday is tomorrow in enough time to get his gifts off of Amazon and delivered in enough time.

Amazon express shipping is a wonderful thing! (Unless, of course, one lives where the saying is: "If it absolutely, positively, has to be there overnight... -don't send it here.")

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Just scattered, really scattered.

Wrong thread, right? I just feel more at home here then the Vent thread

Nope. Right thread and right place. Always.

::Hugs::

(In the interests of keeping the thread police happy: Murchie's English Breakfast Blend tea in my cup.)

ProfCrash · 08-09-2016, 02:40 PM

I have no idea what triggered it. I had not been taking my allergy meds but I had not been having allergy issues. It had been 3 1/2 years since I had an asthma issues so I did not have an inhaler at home or anything. Totally out of the blue.

I have an inhaler at home and work now. I am taking Singular as an asthma/allergy drug and just finished a round of Prednisone. The last time I had asthma issues we tried Advair and it turned out I had a bad reaction to it, lots of respiratory infections that went away when we stopped the Advair, so we are trying to deal with the asthma without moving to a similar medicine since there is a strong likelihood I would have a similar reaction.

I don't do things by halves. Either my asthma has me on a nebulizer and three-four other meds or it is non-existent. Very frustrating.

Jasmine oolong in my cup.

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ProfCrash Tea Enthusiast Posts: 8,554 Karma: 75384937 Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Somewhere in the USA Device: Kindle1, Kindle DX Graphite, K3 3G, IPad 3, PW2	Seven Sons Pu Erh. Finally starting to feel healthy again. An out of the blue asthma attack at the beginning of July seems to have led to a month of small crap that kept adding up and ended with an ear infection and a cold doing its damndest to become bronchitis. Ugggghhhh So a Z Pack, steroid pack (that was a new one), infuser, two allergy meds and four bags of cough drops later I am celebrating two days in a row without a cough and praying for the ringing in my ear to stop completely. It's not like I have been ignoring any of this. I went to the Doctor but each time we started to get one thing under control something stupid came up and set it all back. Just a pain in the ass. And then I felt like crap complaining because it really was all minor, but with threats of building to something larger, because my FIL is in the hospital with massive chemo hoping to get to the point where he can have a stem cell transplant which makes constant coughing and a cold with ear infection with asthma seem like not a whole heck of a lot. So I am glad July is gone and August is looking better and I remembered that my husbands birthday is tomorrow in enough time to get his gifts off of Amazon and delivered in enough time. Just scattered, really scattered. Wrong thread, right? I just feel more at home here then the Vent thread

08-09-2016, 02:40 PM	#32790
ProfCrash Tea Enthusiast Posts: 8,554 Karma: 75384937 Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Somewhere in the USA Device: Kindle1, Kindle DX Graphite, K3 3G, IPad 3, PW2	I have no idea what triggered it. I had not been taking my allergy meds but I had not been having allergy issues. It had been 3 1/2 years since I had an asthma issues so I did not have an inhaler at home or anything. Totally out of the blue. I have an inhaler at home and work now. I am taking Singular as an asthma/allergy drug and just finished a round of Prednisone. The last time I had asthma issues we tried Advair and it turned out I had a bad reaction to it, lots of respiratory infections that went away when we stopped the Advair, so we are trying to deal with the asthma without moving to a similar medicine since there is a strong likelihood I would have a similar reaction. I don't do things by halves. Either my asthma has me on a nebulizer and three-four other meds or it is non-existent. Very frustrating. Jasmine oolong in my cup.