I'm not the biggest fan of the gaiwan, but no Menghai nut should be without one.
Where's the matching yixing?
Where's the matching yixing?
I've got to get one of these
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Thats a nice size.
B&B gaiwan? 
B&b pu!
I was recently reminded of the benefit of having a gaiwan in one's arsenal - like you, I don't use them very often. However, I was drinking a very brutal 2005 Menghai Pengcheng "Yuanyexiang", which is a plantation Bulang. It's TOUGH! Brewing it in a Yixing pot causes massive oversteeping, simply because even the small amount of time taken to pour the water out of my (already wide-calibre) Yixing pot was too much. In a gaiwan, however, the water can be almost instantly removed from the leaves - highly beneficial for such a Bulang!
So, keep one around. Just in case things get dangerous.
Toodlepip,
Hobbes
P.s. I bet these Dayi gaiwan are quite light. It's not easy finding a heavy, chunky gaiwan and I've not found an internet source for doing so, yet. Please let us know if you have!
I think you need one of those early 20th century gaiwan which are now quite expensive. I need one too
how heavy are you looking at? I've got a pretty chunky one, heavy enough for me. reasonable quality at low priced range.
I was recently reminded of the benefit of having a gaiwan in one's arsenal - like you, I don't use them very often. However, I was drinking a very brutal 2005 Menghai Pengcheng "Yuanyexiang", which is a plantation Bulang. It's TOUGH! Brewing it in a Yixing pot causes massive oversteeping, simply because even the small amount of time taken to pour the water out of my (already wide-calibre) Yixing pot was too much. In a gaiwan, however, the water can be almost instantly removed from the leaves - highly beneficial for such a Bulang!
So, keep one around. Just in case things get dangerous.
Toodlepip,
Hobbes
P.s. I bet these Dayi gaiwan are quite light. It's not easy finding a heavy, chunky gaiwan and I've not found an internet source for doing so, yet. Please let us know if you have!
I've been using this Dayi gaiwan for a month or two now and It's excellent. Good weight, good feel, highest quality gaiwan I own.
looks good for display... just a bit shallow and wide for my liking 
I think you need one of those early 20th century gaiwan which are now quite expensive. I need one too
how heavy are you looking at? I've got a pretty chunky one, heavy enough for me. reasonable quality at low priced range.
Heavy, heavy, heavy! I want chunkiness! Solidity! Density! MASS!
Any ideas?
(Anything has to be better than the 10RMB gaiwan I bought in Chengdu, but which is still soldiering on 4 years later in my office every day...)
looks good for display... just a bit shallow and wide for my liking
Not so bad if you're a drink-from-the-gaiwan kind of guy, though
Toodlepip,
Hobbes
Showing my ignorance here....what are they? Is it a brewing container?
hobbes: you need a steel gaiwan or gold gaiwan 
tsmba: thats a 'gaiwan' used to brew tgy or puerh. we steep it for awhile in the gaiwan before pouring it out into a container leaving the leaves in the gaiwan each time
tsmba: thats a 'gaiwan' used to brew tgy or puerh. we steep it for awhile in the gaiwan before pouring it out into a container leaving the leaves in the gaiwan each time
Hmmmmm... now there is an idea!
