(Scott Dorsey) writes:

> Found a very interesting thing at a local Korean market.... I thought I was
> buying some very dense teabags, sold by the "Yunnan Haichao Teablocks Co.
> Ltd" but when I got them home I found that they were actually tiny little
> compressed tea blocks, perhaps 2 cm on a side and with a depression on the
> top to make them come apart better.
>
> This stuff turns out to be a respectable jasmine tea, nothing amazing but
> a slightly higher grade than the Fujian yellow box type. But the packaging
> in small compressed blocks is actually very convenient for travelling
> (which in fact is why I was looking for tea bags at the time).
>
> Does anyone know these guys, and do they make any higher grade teas?

This appears to be their website:

http://ynhccom.ec51.com/

It mentions five varieties, but not different grades.

/Lew
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