Space Cowboy wrote:

> Have fun and enjoy the experience. Don't pay any attention to any
> urls encouraging you to leave this group by people who are too lazy to
> drive too their local Chinatown and all they know if the webpage has
> spinning graphics and makes noises all they want is a virtual Shopping
> Cart and let the delivery man find them in suburbia. The other term
> you'll see on packaging is Vintage Oolong. Learn the characters for
> Puerh because there will be the anonymous waxed paper kilo in the
> dried bulk herbal section that the Chinese apothecary sells by the
> gram. It won't be cheap and doesn't match any description or taste
> you can find here or on any websites. You can satisfy your curiosity
> by buying 50g or so from a herbalist. The reason most Puerh in stores
> is 100g tins because it is more used as a digestive aid along with the
> popular chrysanthemum.
>
> Jim
>
> Carl Huby > wrote in message .au>...
>
>>I'm in Australia, I've also recently moved to near Brisbane's China
>>Town, and have been working my way through the tea aisle at the Chinese
>>supermarkets trying out their range. Haven't found anything to beat
>>their cheap Yunnan Toucha yet.

Thanks for the suggestion, I'll have to give it a try. (I've been
buying pre-packaged stuff, and never really thought to check out
the herbalist.

I agree with you on people ordering online, half the fun of getting it
in Chinatown is being able to check out all the other things and meet
some new people, not to mention the exercise.

(Besides that guy's site posted above costs almost twice what the
chinese stores want for toucha.)

'Carl