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A product comment that Makes me feel ashamed
& relocation status update
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While we have been busy with all the strange, tedious and time-consuming procedures and gluey bureaucracies for getting to setup in Japan, our online shop has not been quiet. N.N., whom I must crown as our all time top fan, has been posting meaningful product comments on our product pages. All of his postings are solid experience sharing but I am most amazed is the one he made on Sacred Lily, an oolong in our Wuyi yancha collection.
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A bit finicky
“It took me almost a full bag to figure this yancha out - luckily for me, I've got another bag to keep figuring it out. It's complex, and a bit finicky, but well-worth the wrestle to dial in the perfect extraction techniques…” What he continues to express actually puts me to shame: “I found the best thing to do was to use very short steep times and cooler temperatures than is typical for yancha… use 8 grams of leaf in my 100mL "Rural Life" gaiwan, with an initial steep of 186°F for 10 seconds, and working up from there incrementally, just a few seconds at a time…”
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It differs sharply with the current infusion tips published on the site: “For optimal results infuse at 90°C for longer durations or 95°C for shorter ones…” The batch must have matured in a good way to have become a tea that can be infused like what N.N. describes. I am so embarrassed to admit that for at least three years I have not had reviewed this batch of Sacred Lily. The systematic resampling of all batches in all the varieties in stock has not been in consistent practice for these three years initially because of my weakened physique due to a serious illness and later because of the demanding relocation.
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Characteristic of a well matured top quality yancha
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What N.N. has observed is characteristic of a well matured top quality yancha of a certain baked condition. However, the batch in offer is only aged for 6 years. I have to double check it when it arrives in Japan together with all my other inventories. If it really behaves as how N.N. has explained, I will most definitely change the description accordingly. It will also prove a certain set of criteria for us to select and store our Wuyi yancha collection.
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Please allow me to publicly express my gratitude to N.N. for his genuine efforts in exploring this tea, and really all the other teas that he has commented on in our site. Please also accept my sincere apologies, especially to those of you who have owned this batch of Sacred Lily recently, for my failure to describe a better infusion approach for this selection. I hope you will be inspired by N.N.’s comment to try out your own way of enjoying this, or any other oolong for that matter, to discover better ways to reveal its taste wonder.
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Relocation status update
Another topic of this update is our current status in Japan: we have yet to finalise a place for our operation. To make a long story short: there are not a lot of suitable commercial spaces in better locations, and a lot of them are in conditions that one may need at least a couple of months of major renovation. This is a bit different from finding a living space, where most apartments and houses we have seen are move-in conditions.
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This is quite beyond our estimation since those originally shortlisted target spaces had looked acceptable from the local listing websites or apps, but not quite so when we inspect them.
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At least two weeks to make a lease
Our local agent is working hard with us to get a space as quickly as possible. And I am still hoping that we can move in sometime in September, but perhaps quite late in the month. Be prepared that online sales will resume only in October if any of the properties we will see in the next few days works. The work of setting up the space and getting local peripheral suppliers aside, just processing a lease contract takes at least two weeks here. That is another story.
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Again, my wholehearted apologies for this delay. This whole relocation move has been much delayed itself because of quite a few other key events and factors, but we really need to execute it no later. The bold move of moving out before securing local properties has been the result of no other choices.
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Thank you for your patience with us and I hope I can report good news very soon.
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Meanwhile, as we continue to work on various new tea intakes, a lot of which for our export clients and new offers online, please share your precious comments with us.
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It was only when we began asking property agents for seeing properties, that we learned that in Japan, one has to have a local permanent residential address first before property management companies even allow you to see a site. We were lucky to be able to decide on a new home the first week of arrival. But it took over two weeks to got the lease contract processed, which the agent described as very efficient. Top most picture: my personal tea cabinet arrived in my new apartment from Hong Kong a few days ago, together with other home stuff. Above: evening sky of Nagoya as seen from my apartment.
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