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Haichao Tea Blocks
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? --scott -- "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis." |
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> > Does anyone know these guys, and do they make any higher grade teas?
> Saw them in an Int'l Tea exhibition last year. They offer 5 varieties: green, black, jasmine, pu erh, and mi xiang (sticky rice fragrance tea) I've tasted the black, green, pu erh and jasmine and they were all nice. They don't make any higher grades. Each piece approx 3 grams, which is a bit smaller than an ordinary mini tuo cha. The pieces are shaped like a flat square rather than a nest. Each piece is separately seal-wrapped in an aluminum wrapping (kind of like a...condom). To sum it up, it's a cool gimik and fairly good tea. |
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