My brand new gaiwan from teaware.house FINALLY got here! Took a hella long time (for international shipping logistics reasons entirely outside distributor control, so I highly recommend teaware.house regardless) but here! she! is! :-)
She’s an 80ml compared to my old ~150ml, so my little solo seshes will finally stop taking so damn long lmao. So cute and petite but also clearly very intricate with gorgeous details I can’t help but admire. I happen to have small hands, so the handling is really good on it too, my one complaint being that the knob on the lid is flat and not ridged—so, not the most comfortable in that regard.
The gang’s all here now! The gong dao bei, teacup, and strainer are new as well—picked them up separately, from Yunnan Sourcing’s warehouse in China—which, on the other side of the coin of Gambling With International Shipping, somehow got here a mere WEEK after I ordered them lol.
Strapped for time doing adulting stuff so I can’t squeeze in a sesh just yet to verify how this thing does with hot water, but I’ll fill you guys in if the thing fucking explodes or if anything else ridiculous happens. Otherwise… I’ll probably still post, actually, just to show off what I’m sipping on. ;-)