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Yes, keeping the juices from leaking into the stem works well for all kinds of tobacco, may be not for nakhla since it's best smoked from a clay egyptian bowl, but for everything else, a phunnel would give you much much better results.
When you say you pack only 10gm tobacco, are you asking for a phunnel bowl with a similar capacity? If so, then I cannot recommend Crown micro phunnel highly enough! It's a small bowl as the name suggests, holds like 10-15gms of tobacco and smokes brilliantly for such a small bowl. A bit pricey one may say, but is of excellent quality and justifies the price in my opinion.
I smoke AF from mine and it lasts me 1.5-2 hours in that bowl! The airflow is amazing obviously since it's a phunnel and don't even ask me about the clouds.
If I were to suggest, I'd say stay away from a vortex bowl and get a phunnel! Either a tangiers small (holds 30-40gms), or a crown micro phunnel.
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The only problem I am facing right now, is that hookah-shisha doesnt sell tangiers phunnel or micro phunnel as you stated. I was gonna try the chinese version of it. I live in Quebec/Canada, so shipping cost are quite high. Was gonna order a bowl with my next tobacco order.