Dear Friends,

I am leaving today to go visit my family in Taiwan; will be back on 9/26. Irene stays in Houston to keep serving you Hou De as usual. But I can guess she will have her hands pretty full most of the time just trying to run after our daughter and fulfill all orders you guys kindly send in So please be a bit more patient on the speed of order processing.

I surely will visit several plantations and ceramic artists, and bring back really interesting teas and teawares. Also I will bring back more treasures (yixings and aged pu-erhs) from my storage in Taiwan to Houston.

By the end of this month and October you will see a whole array of exciting new things on Hou De! So, good bye and good luck!

Guang