she gets Oolong from "Tee Gschwendner" in Germany because they have a Taiwanese one and then she mixes it with milk powder

Is it good?

Out of the three tea shops here, Gschwendner is mostly seen as second best, so i only went there once to look in..

i dont like the gschwendner oolong, well I had the sumatra oolong not long ago, its good

but not milky

and milky oolong with milk powder is kind of fraud

<:thenk:329322130804047872>

the real deal is without milk powder

@Sdeck37 Jin Xuan is my favourite

not too expensive and very pleasant for everyday tea

i buy this one usually https://eco-cha.com/products/jin-xuan-oolong-tea

Sounds good

I'm currently on something called white rose

Which should be between Mu Tan and yinzehn

It's pretty comfy for learning

JohnFrum-Senpai wants to tell us not to commit suicide by ChinkTea OD

we know

sighhh

?

Thst was a joke, normal tea is probably fine herbal shit is what I'd be worried about.

The thing of Gschwendner is that they only have kinds of tea that they can obtain in big masses since they want to keep their offer consistant all over Germany

you won't find something obscure there

there is this tea + coffee field in Taiwan that has a very unique oolong but they don't export it. We have a box full of it.

http://tea-store-533.business.site/

Basically there's some kind of worm that feeds on the tea leaves and it's saliva is sweet. This gives the tea a very special, slightly sweet flavour

According to them, this kind of worm is exclusive to Taiwan

http://www.gruentee-direkt.de i bought some stuff from here to try. the side looks like early 00s but the tea is nice

I know the owner of https://www.nannuoshan.org/ - if I want something "special", I tend to ask him first because that company is in contact with many distributors and even farmers

the shop is in Berlin

Also @JHWH Gschwendner has 3 oolongs, did you try all of them?

A german niche shop with a functioning website, I'm sold.

@porco you mean on the website? I think they have different ones in the stores

i never tried the new zealand one, but its not affordable for me anyway, so there is nothing to gain for me

and i am ball fascist. my oolong has to be balls and not leaves

i m just trying out what tastes the best for me personally. and i can say I am more the green tea / unroasted kind of tea person. Although I like the black tea / roasted variants too, I generally prefer a more vegetale/plant-y flavour

@JHWH I never went to the website

Yes I agree, but I don't like the too bitter green teas

I like the light ones. Longjing style

The only time I didnt like tea was when I bought cheap shit pu er from the local chink store

i just brewed long jing ☺

Puerh is a meme that was introduced to China to sell overpriced fermented tea to stupid westerners

well, tbh. i only tried oolong and pu er because of dragonball in the first place

so it kinda worked

My Chinese teacher told us stories about how her western exchange student friends let her try puerh because they thought it's fancy and wanted to impress her

and how she pretended to like it because she didn't want to appear to have bad taste

But she's sure that noone liked it in that round and everyone was saying how good it is, just to appear fancy

<:thenk:329322130804047872>

maybe its like wine or coffee, an acquired taste

but you gotta acquire for a long time

I really don't like puerh

maybe you're right

Oh that stuff

I was told it tastes like Earl Grey in worse

Good to know, it's meme. probably wouldn't fit my taste either..

Not necessarily a meme, just go try it. Also Earl Grey tastes very different. I sometimes enjoy the bergamot flavour in black tea. Puerh does not have this kind of citrus note at all. It just tastes... Fermented

Just try it and you'll see. Maybe you will like it

the one time i got puerh and oolong from china it tasted like fish

I hate tea

tastes like dirty dish water at most chinese places

@kaetaa do people say 龍騎士 in China to hint that someone is dating an ugly girl or is it a Taiwan thing?

Computer lab after CNY

my TW friends said that they personally don't hear people say " 龍騎士" but they do hear people calling ugly girls "恐龍"

Yeah never heard of that

I usually call girls green tea bitches

That's my go to

Sounds classy

I hear that good puerh tea is actually decent

@Critical Strike 綠茶婊子?

@van ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ Where's the computers

Shit get stolen?

I fail to accept that there's criminality in Taiwan

Those people are so nice and peaceful

Chink working codes up to standards again I see

Lol

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/feb/28/price-panic-triggers-run-on-toilet-paper-in-taiwan

Ayylmao

That's a shitty situation

Lel

@JHWH Had a nice pu'erh with small bits of coacoa nibs and some other spices (cinnamon, tiniest amount of vanilla oil) that was really nice.

Not if you're a purist looking for whatever infinitely subtle flavor notes in tea.

But very relaxing with a warm, smoky overtone that only that particular tea can accomplish.

Po'op

X'D

💙 💦

Wait this isn't offtopic

another fucking earthquake

very small quake but its been shaking for about a minute now

Better get your toilet paper <:umaru:232470184445607937>

I understand the Taiwanese over there. If you know it's going to be more expensive, better stack it up

you're not just going to stop shitting anyway

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Yeah but they're the ones making it expensive by buying so much

Newspapers are actually cheaper than toilet paper.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlL3_SR_wj4

john madden

the earthquake happened from japan

no?

aeiou

tfw this is a polish vid

Welcome to Hsinchu, Taiwan!

@vanvanvanvanvanvanvanvanvanvan#9834 smog nice and thick

delicious

@Lj4IW9hY3JmTwb hey now, that goes in <#189811441174446080>

Ohfuck

<:pepewot:327934404234313739>

Srryyyy

@Lj4IW9hY3JmTwb no worries

is that actually smog?

>when you have an Asian gf

why 3 bags of rice though?

if you're in chinkland you could just pop into the market and get them ez

or if you're anywhere

We're in Switzerland and it was 30% off this week

So she decided to get 10kg

TBf id do the same when eating a lot of rice and seeing 30%

It was the cheapest rice of my life though and she said that the shop was full of chink housewives hoarding buying rice as if WW3 was about to start

10 kg = 7 CHF / 6 €

Lmao I was wondering what's wrong with the image

Seemed perfectly normal to me to have a couple sacks of rice

Why would you stack it? @van ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ

rice doesn't go bad, and if you consume it daily it makes sense to stock up during a sale

Some rice tastes better after being stored

rice is god

Cook rice almost daily. 3 sacks would last about 2 months.

I've never had dry rice expire

That's pretty fast

5kg last roughly 1 month for the two of us

>tfw 40 pound bags on sale at my local gookmart for 30 bucks
Debating whether to go down there for that

What kind of bucks?

USD

That's pretty expensive for rice

Medium grain is usually pricier here, long grain is about 10 dollars for 20 pounds

Yes medium grain is always more expensive except for Italy

Long grain is such a low tier rice but more recipies use it so I guess I can understand it.

Depends on the kind of long grain rice. American long grain rice is low tier but nothing against jasmine rice

Never liked jasmine rice, even the pricy kind in hipster 1 lb bags

We always get cheap AAA jasmine rice for 0.80 $ / kg

who here /couscousfag/?

For some Taiwanese or Japanese recipies that require more sticky round rice, we just get Camolino rice from Italy for roughly 1.10 $ / kg

Officially been back in USA for 10 days. My fiancee loves it, and the mom does too - but now shes trying to go back to china a week early

We had a casual dinner with some family members last night and she was going crazy trying to gain chinese face

i think she has a mental disability. It was just a normal dinner and she was acting like they were going to donate a kidney to her so she had to be on best behavior or somethintg

then as soon as we returned she pretty much insulted my family members for no reason

its weird how someone so poor and so uneducated can think they are above others

She's constantly trying to defend China, like she works for them or something

if my fiancee says "wow, this house is so nice!"

her mom will say "China has nice houses too"

Every compliment to USA is an insult to China apparently

She saw that my city was building some new high ways, and she says "Its because USA is trying to compete with China huh?"

and I had to explain to her that nobody gives a shit about competiting with other countries. It's only China that is always trying to prove itself to other countries to gain face

and she couldnt understand it

>explaining

There's your problem, smile and nod until she does something fucked up enough to put your foot down

And let all of her crazy nonsense go? not a chance

She needs to learn

If not by me, thats fine - but she cant stay in her china communist bubble

Shes been brainwashed her whole life

Going to bust an artery that way, m8

yeah i know

my eyes are always red these days

Past 30 is near impossible to break pwople out of habits

Sometimes I'll just nod and say I disagree and leave it at that

but then she wont shutup about it

Thats why like 90% of hoarder stories end up in relapse

She said "America has so much handicap parking/ramps and is wheel chair accessible because they have way more handicap than china"

this is so fucking wrong. The reason you dont see handicap people in china is because they are shamed to stay in their homes and there are almost ZERO ramps or accessibility for them

Listen to how crazy she sounds m8

Crazy is as crazy does, nodding amd chnaging the subject to something like food or other family members she can also rattle on about is probably less stressful

Like water, you cant stop it but redirection is better than trying to push it alway. Just hope chain migration is patched before china collapses

Red guard indoctrinated?

Sounds a bit like the elderly here.

Of course they're all dying out now, but you gotta visit German dementia station with 80+ people. They sing marching song and are heiling and shit. Sad to watch, really.

Sad to watch this is dying out indeed

if you go to lower tier cities they're everywhere

I think they ship the disabled to containment cities or something

They tend to gather at some place

@plasticsword out of sight out of mind

@kaetaa did she cheat on you yet?

No

you should just hang up a bunch of anime stuff tbh

to see her reaction

@kaetaa and now?

im 90% sure you have cuckold fetish

not kinkshaming tho

kek

iv live in texas, all the chads are with the stacies

they have no interest in FOB chink

everyone else is landwhale

Before knowing my gf I always went for FOB Asian girls because they were just super easy

Most of them choosing Europe to study, just to get fucked anonymously since they have no family here to judge them

Anyway, make sure to protect yours. Girls are naive af and a lot of work to keep them under control

I got a $4.97 steel chain from hardware store, shoudl be ok

the guy said the $10 would be better but meh

I just put a rice circle around mine

She usually won't find the way out

https://phys.org/news/2018-03-china-civilian-astronauts-boost-crewed.html

how likely is it that an amerifat like me can get china to send me to space?

Aren't you Danish?

>ywn be sent to a lonely planet with a Chinese cutie in order to set up an entire colony within a few generations

Mainlanders in space

One of their satellites is planning to crash into earth soon

Chink space program is a joke

@kaetaa what does your gf's mum think about China's new, glorious Xi dynasty?

She doesn't seem worried at all

She's been trained to never question the government

prob a good altitude in china tbh

@porcorosso#2322 good luck posting those winnie the pooh memes on wechat

@porco

Kaetaa, does she like American China Town? <:wholesomethonk:373550351082848267>

she did actually

thought it was funny

every chink likes chinatown

it's like they took china to a nice place

also chinatown are chinese military base

The "Original Chinese" still exist and they are living on an island called Taiwan

t. Every taxi driver and farmer on the Taiwanese countryside

might be a selection bias towards mainlanders who come to taiwan, but mainlanders i've met say something similar

"original chinese culture is dead in the mainland and the island is where it's still left"

My Chinese teacher (Beijing) says that, too

But then, that means nothing, because she also started political discussions with my girlfriend and now they don't talk to each other anymore

Ask mainlanders about Chinese stuff in museums outside of China

They are insistent that the country stole it from China and should return it

Read reviews of the museums from Chinese ... "I saw all the Chinese stuff and am really sad"

@kaetaa Explains why actual Chinese antique stuff is highly sought after by them

They're all buying it back at auction houses

If they have the money why not

i thought "ancient Chinese crime family obsessed with priceless artifact/heirloom and will kill to get it back" thing was an action movie trope

@johnfrum#8811 right? I didn't say it as a negative

Ah, was looking at knockoff chink pistols from the warlord period and damn the fuckers go high in price

They arent even safe to fire most times.

https://jingdaily.com/chinese-collectors-price-out-western-bidders-at-asian-art-auctions/

@johnfrum#8811 they want their fancy ricebowls back

in turn they flood ebay with fake antiques

Anyone buying antiques on ebay for anything other than aesteic reasons deserve to get scammed

True that

There's nice ones on there, but if you think they're real you deserve to get scammed

saw a nice Chinese ""antique"" pen/quill holder

didn't end up going for it but it doesn't cost a lot either

@johnfrum http://www.ebay.com/itm/100-natural-Hand-carved-black-green-jade-pendant-amulet-Dragon-phoenix/202247350297?

"jade"

Jade isnt that rare.

its Chinese propaganda

Peices of a particular quality or age are rare but the vast majority arent.

Jade isn't that expensive. There's a really cool jade market in Taipei. I wanted jade chopsticks but nobody there had jade chopsticks...

I have a jade artifact from the 1850s

That's actually rare <:italianthink:327934554126155776> due to it being made by the kingdom of that time

and it has their marks on it etc