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Lew Perin

@babelcarp

Tea, Chinese, China, and the Babelcarp app occupy me here. All else at @wrenpile. I’m also on Mastodon: social.tchncs.de/@babelcarp email: [email protected]

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The name Menghai means ā€œfierce sea (or lake)ā€ in Chinese, but the town is far from any big body of water: babelcarp.org/babelcarp/babe… The name isn’t Chinese, anyway. More importantly, Menghai is arguably the center of the puer universe.

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GROWING ā€˜PANES’ - Camellia Shield Bugs or Tea Seed Bugs (Poecilocoris latus, Scutelleridae) (nymph (top) and adult) flic.kr/p/ThBsdL #insect #China #Yunnan #entomology #Hemiptera #bug

GROWING ā€˜PANES’ - Camellia Shield Bugs or Tea Seed Bugs (Poecilocoris latus, Scutelleridae)
(nymph (top) and adult)
flic.kr/p/ThBsdL
#insect #China #Yunnan #entomology #Hemiptera #bug
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My old tea friend who’s visiting southern Yunnan just sent me a short video of a local woman roasting kaocha over an open fire: babelcarp.org/babelcarp/babe… But she’s using a Japanese kyusu!

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I’m briefly emerging from Twitter retirement to tell you my friend Laszlo at The China History Podcast is starting up his own Tea History Podcast: overcast.fm/+uPr2vEv1k I’m sure it’ll be great, just like the now decade-old China History Podcast.

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As a rule I don’t blog or tweet these days, so here goes with a post on what might or might not be happening in the puer industry:šŸ™ƒ babelcarp.org/babelcarp/feiy…

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If you brew multiple steeps of a tea, you need to think about temperature control as the leaves take up water. And not all teas are alike. I have evidence: babelcarp.org/babelcarp/abso…