Patrick Heinze > writes:

> [...]
>
> Ater I read so much about Pu Erh in this NG I decided to give it a 2nd
> try. I just stumbled over it, not in a teashop though, but in a local
> imported goods shop. I got a kind of pressed 'teaball', about 1,5 cm
> in diameter...well...not really a ball, but pressed and small, though
> ^-^
> Anyone knows what this is? Is that one of the 'cakes' read aout?

No, cakes (bingcha/beengcha/beencha) are more or less flat discs,
though they're much thicker than e.g. a DVD. What you have is a
tuancha.

/Lew
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