After some less than enjoyable weather, along with some winter blues and blahs, it's time to share in some new tea!

 This is a Puer mini tuocha. I recently got 105 of them (in 21 "flavors") from a vendor on Aliexpress.com (link at end of post). That is a standard sweetener packet for scale.

 there is one in my hand with the massive bowl of fun behind it.

 Sweetener packet for scale to the bowl.

 here it is unwrapped, see the little indent? that's from the machine that they use to compress the tea.

 here it is flipped to show the top.

 and a couple of close up views

 the wrapper ( I can't read chinese, so if anyone can, tell me what flavor this one's supposed to be, yes?)

 A couple of close ups of the wrapper- NOW it's time to BR-BR-BR-BR-BR-BR-BREW (hah. I've been waiting to make that yugioh refrence for years.)

 Rooster mug with old davids tea infuser from the mug that broke, mini tuocha, jug to dump rinses in, and a very messy desk, Check check check check and Check

 tea in infuser

 another angle

 boiling water for first  10 second rinse

 after first rinse

 dumping first rinse

 second rinse

 it's already fallen apart, hope that's not a bad sign.

 first brew

completely disentegrated mini tuo (after only one 1 minute brew)



I have to say, i have tried a couple of other ones from this bag before this, and none of them were this fishy.


i did two brews after this one and the smell and taste would just not go away. So the yellow ones are a bust.

The orange ones were good, and the pale green ones were good, the brown (coffee flavored, i found a coffee bean piece in it) was only ok, but none of them had been bad so far. maybe that one was a fluke tuocha.
NOTE: i am not expecting high quality puer here, i am expecting mediocre at best, but the other flavors had given me some hope that these were better-than-average for mini tuochas.
The product reviewed today, purchased with own money.