{"id":84,"date":"2020-07-31T15:03:19","date_gmt":"2020-07-31T15:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chineseteas101.com\/?p=84"},"modified":"2020-07-31T15:58:40","modified_gmt":"2020-07-31T15:58:40","slug":"compressed-tea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chineseteas101.com\/compressed-tea\/","title":{"rendered":"Compressed Tea"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul><li>Compressed tea is common in the West and South-West China.<\/li><li>Compressed tea cake should be stored in contact with air at room temperature to allow continuous fermentation.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pu%27er_tea\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"undefined (opens in a new tab)\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Pu&#8217;Er tea<\/a>&nbsp;ages like wine and after a few decades, it can really go up in value.<\/li><li>Although&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/chineseteas101.com\/guide-to-kung-fu-tea\/\">Kung Fu brewing<\/a>&nbsp;is fine, best way to prepare compress tea is to boil (unusual way to prepare Chinese tea) it in order to extract full flavor out of the tea. Very &#8220;tough&#8221; kind of tea it is.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">It Get&#8217;s Personal<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Before the end of 2001, I thought compressed tea is low grade tea packed for easy storage. And compressed tea is something the Tibetans drink as a from of beverage, not anything of interest for those who seeks the way of tea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pu&#8217;er is a favorite tea used for compressed tea. It&#8217;s also a common dim sum restaurant tea. It sits in the background while people chat and have yummy dim sum and the tea gets uncomfortably dark after staying in the teapot for a while. I have never considered Pu&#8217;er something I would enjoy in it&#8217;s own right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the beginning of 2002, a friend of mine insisted that I taking him to the tea ally&#8217;s shop to get some nice Pu&#8217;er. With a little reluctance, we went.All the high grade Pu&#8217;er (loose leaf version) at the tea shop couldn&#8217;t keep me from watching the clock with half-opened eyes. &#8220;Are you done Mr. Friend? Pu&#8217;er is just not my cup of tea&#8221; I was mumbling. Then the tea ally pulled his secret weapon &#8211; a Pu&#8217;er tea cake which has been aged for a few years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First impression was good as the color of the tea made from the tea cake looked clear and, well, very tea-ish. I took a sip and found the tea smooth, natural, and thick. WOW! Best of all, this compressed version of Pu&#8217;er doesn&#8217;t get dark after taking a long bath in the teapot. For the first time in history, I get to understand why Pu&#8217;er is the love of so many tea drinkers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All the bad impressions about compressed tea and Pu&#8217;er are gone. I was just not drinking the&nbsp;<strong>right version<\/strong>&nbsp;of Pu&#8217;er in the first half of my existance. And consider some tea addicts paying the price of a brand new Honda Civic for an age tea cake, compressed tea got to be not too bad an idea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So there I start to rediscover compressed tea and Pu&#8217;er.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><th>Tea Class<\/th><th>Name in Chinese<\/th><th>Mandarin Pronunciation (Place of origin &#8211; Tea name)<\/th><th>Meaning in English<\/th><\/tr><tr><td>Compressed Tea<\/td><td><\/td><td>Bing Cha<\/td><td>Cake Tea<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Compressed Tea<\/td><td><\/td><td>Tuo Cha<\/td><td>Peg-top (referring to the shape) Tea<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Compressed Tea<\/td><td><\/td><td>Zhuang Cha<\/td><td>Brick Tea<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Compressed Tea<\/td><td><\/td><td>Pu Er Cha<\/td><td>Pu&#8217;Er Tea<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Compressed tea is common in the West and South-West China. Compressed tea cake should be stored in contact with air at room temperature to allow continuous fermentation.&nbsp;Pu&#8217;Er tea&nbsp;ages like wine and after a few decades, it can really go up in value. Although&nbsp;Kung Fu brewing&nbsp;is fine, best way to prepare compress tea is to boil&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"table_tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Compressed Tea | Chinese Teas 101<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"There are 8 classes of Chinese tea. 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