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oleg 7/17/06

> Michael Plant wrote:
>> oleg /15/06
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>>
>>
>>> Space Cowboy wrote:
>>>
>>>> In a previous discussion Seb said ?? LiuBao is from Guangxi and
>>>> ?? LiuAn is from Anhui and both come in basket form.
>>>
>>> Recently got 2000 Liu Bao Beeng Cha from Seb(jingteashop) in cake form.

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>>
>> Oleg,
>> How's it taste? Better yet, bring it along if you
>> see what I mean. (Thought those little buggers
>> came in baskets, not beengs.) Bodaboing! Hasta
>> maņana.
>> Michael
>>

>
> Liu Bao taste has some similarity to cooked puerh at least when i first
> tasted it and thought that it is some sort of cooked puerh especially
> now when factories get very creative with blends. Taste is very
> different from Liu An. I like both of them but Liu An a little bit more.
> I will bring it tomorrow; hope that you will write a better description.


If you mean better than yours, your description is just fine.
Besides, when it comes to Liu An and Kiu Bao, you're way
ahead of me. I'm just a poor country boy running to catch
up. Later, literally.

Michael