Pu-erh Tuocha (Tea Compressed into Bowl or Nest Shape)

Dark brown tea leaves compressed into a bowl shape, on a paper backgrouund with Chinese charactersView Full Resolution

This photo shows Pu-erh compressed into a bowl or "nest" shape (tuocha). These shapes are slightly less common than the flatter, disc-like shapes that most Pu-erh cakes come in, but are still among the more common shapes of compressed tea.
This image is featured in our article on Ripened (Shou) Pu-erh.

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Alex Zorach

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Joined Sep. 1st, 2009.


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