![Zhuping and Austin at the Yunnan tea market with puer tea master Hu Haoming in 2005 sourcing puer mao cha](https://sevencups.com/files/2021/10/Zhuping-and-Austin-at-the-Yunnan-tea-market-with-puer-tea-master-Hu-Haoming-in-2005-sourcing-puer-mao-cha-220x180.jpeg)
What was the puer tea market like 20 years ago?
My first experience with puer tea came in an alley outside the Victoria Hotel on Shamian Island surrounded by the Pearl River in Guangzhou China on a fall morning in 2002. I had just registered my business in Tucson, Arizona and was in Guangzhou looking for tea. I was having dim sum. I was… // MORE