Surprise in my Pu Er today

Some folks claim they've found "deliciousness" in Puerh. Miraculous.

--crymad

How hot of water and how long a steep does one need to kill bird flu?

Well, look at it this way. Now, when you're enticing people to try pu'erh for the first time, you can say it kinda tastes like chicken!

Honestly though, I find it a little disturbing. What other body parts might be lurking within? Hmmm..............................p*

I found a little toy plastic car in mine. And in another I found a couple of little press-on tattoos.

i've never found anything quite so exotic, but i have found the odd human hair on occasion...

No, but once I found a very large and dessicated roach in a box of Mumtaz tea. It had clearly been compressed in the block.

--scott

I'm so glad you mentioned that. As it happens, I got a Mumtaz sample yesterday from an acquaintance and drank it for breakfast today. As far as I could tell, it wasn't an unusually high-protein breakfast, by the way.

/Lew

LOL!

Well.. I think this lends a definately exciting edge to the world of Pu Er drinking. I'm really curious what kinds of critters I might find in my next cake. In fact, I think I'll be disappointed if i don't find something. Of course, I'm the sort of guy who willingly ate bugs, lizards, snakes, and parts of animals usually discarded while I was in China. Soo... Maybe I don't represent a typical reaction to this.

Thinking about it.. this probably lends creedence to the steam method for breaking apart your cakes into loose leafs. This way, you'll have a chance to pick through the whole cake, and find out what is, or is not, in there. Not to mention just being a relaxing and nice smelling way to spend 30 minutes or so.

-Troy Howard (aka Da Tong)

The worst I've found was recently when I did my first steamed dismantling of a cake (reported here: