Black pu-erh mushrooms from Holy Mtn

I too find some cooked Puerhs pretty delightful.

/Lew

It looks to me like they have both

P-TMP-1a Tibetan Mushroom Pu-erh P-TMP-2a Green Tibetan Mushroom Pu-erh

Do you know which you have?

Doug

This one: P-TMP-1a Tibetan Mushroom Pu-erh

-ben

Doug Hazen, Jr. wrote:

Ben, "cooked/black/ripe/shu" are all synonymous when it comes to puer. So yes it could be called "cooked" also. There are many black puers that are quite tasty, there are 10 times more that are just mediocre. There are several vendors who stock the black mushroom so shop around and enjoy...

Mike Petro snipped-for-privacy@pu-erh.net

I believe that one would be black/cooked, given, as Mike points out, the "ripe" in the description, and given that the other Tibetan Mushroom they have is definitely green/uncooked.

Doug

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I was wondering about what you guys were talking about with "cooked". The shu-pu pu'er is the cooked version, and the sheng-pu version is the uncooked one?

I prefer shu-pu better than shengpu even though the latter is how it was traditionally prepared as told to me by some merchants. I supposedly have some 12 year old sheng-pu that's decent, but it still has that wild taste to it, if you know what I mean.

Mydnight

-------------------- thus then i turn me from my countries light, to dwell in the solemn shades of an endless night.

You got it. The term "cooked" seems to be popular in Guangdong as 2 different vendors who live there, and cater to the US, use the term. Most of the guys I talk to in Kunming use the English term "ripe". Few westerners recognize the term "shu".

Mike Petro snipped-for-privacy@pu-erh.net

I see. I haven't heard of it that way before. I lived in Dongguan, Guangdong for about 6 months and often only heard shu/sheng...but, then again, I dealt with shopkeepers that couldn't speak English. heh.

Do you prefer the sheng or the shu-pu?

Mydnight

-------------------- thus then i turn me from my countries light, to dwell in the solemn shades of an endless night.

Yes....

;-)

Mike snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com/21/04

Hi Mydnight, I'm a sheng sort of a guy. Michael

Real men don't eat kish. Real men don't drink shu.

Sasha.

Alex ChaihorskypYlod.48499$ snipped-for-privacy@newssvr21.news.prodigy.com11/22/04

Lew, it was like he was right there in the room, eh?

Under the table. I may have been wrong in this, but I didn't mention it because he wasn't getting any of the tea.

/Lew

Isn't that called in English "to add insult to injury"? Not being invited is one thing, but being kept under the table and deprived of tea? Do you gentlemen, prefer swords or duel pistols? If you allow me Macedonian shooting I can face you both at once. :)

Sasha.