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This little cake come from border area with Myanmar from Kokang (果敢; pinyin: Guǒgǎn),...
Our Yiwu gushu for this year comes from an old village in Mansa area - Zhang Jia Wan...
This tea most closely resembles CNNP 7532, but we are labeling it as tiepai [pasted...
Raw Jin Cha is especially for Tibetan market, used to be mixed with milk, it is very...
this tea is sold only as a sample, each order is limited to have only 2 samples of this...
Nicely processed and completely manually produced tea from Bada mountains. The tea is...
„tong; 筒 - Literally a barrel or barrel shaped object. A tong in Yunnan tea culture is a bundle of 7 tea cakes wrapped in the outer skin of bamboo which naturally sheds from around the base of the bamboo stem. Each cake weighs 357grams so making a total of 2,499 gm. Said by some to have been calculated in order to remain under a specific legislated weight of 2.5 kg. There were originally said to be 8 cakes in a tong. The 8th being paid as a levy. An earlier unit of weight in China was the liang. A cake of tea weighed 7 liang and 7 cakes in a tong made 49 liang. “
Quotes Tags: Pu-erh, Tea production, Yunnan, China
Fujain famous white tea "White peony" (Bai Mu Dan)- Taste similar but not the same. This tea come from tea...
Exclusive collection of the youngest gardens in Darjeeling processed from fresh buds of cultivar...
This is a classic Menghai spring blended cake from Nannuoshan Tea Factory which was renamed as Menghai...
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Dry leaves: smell the leaves before you brew them. You can smell them before and after you put them in the heated gaiwan.
The gaibei's lid: lots of fragrant smells accumulate below the lid. Smell and you'll know when the tea is ready. You can also smell it after you pour the tea out.
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