Bamboo-packed tea

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- 2012.11.09 at 5:18 pm #8529
  
  MEversbergII
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  I read this article some time back:
  
  https://www.jkteashop.com/blog/traditional-dai-minority-bamboo-raw-pu-er-tea-making-process/
  
  Does anyone here have any opinions on bamboo-packed tea? Is it always a pu’erh variety? They certainly LOOK cool, but then again so do tea cakes. So far, Leo hasn’t had a great esteem in many compressed teas, and I don’t doubt these are sub-optimal, but the lure of bamboo taste is appealing, having consumed water from fresh cut bamboo in the past.
  
  M.
- 2012.11.10 at 6:48 am #9272
  
  CHAWANG
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  bamboo taste no exist in such tea. not good tea quality used for this kind of tea production. too strong taste for bamboo taste to show. this kind of tea smaller one for tourist and larger one for interior decoration only. real people using them are traditional style mountain and nomad people living in far away places from cities. bamboo for easy storage and carrying.
- 2012.11.11 at 8:34 pm #8977
  
  MEversbergII
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  I’d a feeling that what I’d have access to would be pretty low end. Nonetheless, they are pretty attractive. If I find one at an agreeable price, perhaps I’ll nab one just to have a bit of decoration for my tea cabinet.
  
  M.
- 2012.11.13 at 1:14 pm #9001
  
  ICE
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  Bamboo used to be the love of traditional educated people. The brush, brush holder, brush rest, book case, sometimes even the paper weight and furniture, were all made of bamboo. People used to have bamboo growing the gardens. I keep several bamboo items too.
  
  Keeping tea in it, however, is a different thing. The way they do it in the photos seems pretty raw. Be careful if there still are small insects in it.
- 2012.11.13 at 4:04 pm #9004
  
  MEversbergII
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  I’d wondered about the bugs. I guess that’s one thing the heating of the tubes is hoping to rid of. Then I have dead bugs in my tea.
  
  Bamboo itself is pretty beautiful. There’s some growing around here wild in some spots, even. I’ve never seen it quite so thick as what I’ve seen growing wild in S.E. Asia, however; guessing it never gets hot enough?
  
  Bamboo tea tools are on my wish-list, though I’m not certain they’re particularly nessecary for anything – they just look nice. Bamboo is getting a new “trendy” face here in the U.S. lately, as apparently it grows fast enough to make it “sustainable” for kitchen items. Too bad the stuff’s pretty heavily processed.
  
  M.
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