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Post by jetz320 on Oct 28, 2006 2:52:00 GMT
Have any of you ever heard of "Tea Cake"?! It's a form of a cake but it's all dried tea leaves!
My parents (And my personal favorite) is a kind that is in the oolong family. It's called "Teet guun Yum". Have any of you heard of it? It's really light colored and not to sweet or bitter.
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Post by Si on Oct 28, 2006 7:40:41 GMT
I think you mean
Tie Guan Yin (I think thats the correct pin ying) often see it spelt Kuan
its one of the most famous chinese oolong teas
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Post by guzhenglover on Oct 31, 2006 6:06:06 GMT
I think syburn's right about Teet Guun Yum being Tie Guanyin (literally, "metal+Goddess of Mercy"). Teet Guun Yum is probably just the Cantonese version for the same tea name.
The "tea cake" jetz320 referred to sounds to me like those Pu'er teas from Yunnan (or similar regions). Pu'er teas typically come packed in this form so that, to consume the tea, one usually uses a type of pick to break bits off it for infusion. In other words, this kind of tea cakes isn't your usual idea of a tea cake (soft and baked and all that...). It's just a cake of heavily fermented and dried tea.
Mind you, the Cantonese REALLY love their Pu'er teas (maybe they think that Pu'er goes particularly with their culinary specialties and/or Yum Cha, somehow).
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Post by Charlie Huang on Oct 31, 2006 9:11:00 GMT
When I was in LA, I saw large 'teacakes' for sale.
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Post by guzhenglover on Oct 31, 2006 9:41:29 GMT
Well, dare one say alas, the invasion of the pu'er tea!
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Post by Si on Oct 31, 2006 14:17:50 GMT
I have not really explored pu'er tea much but its is damned good with cantonese food! Only prob is it get strong when left to in the tea pot if your dinner friend s are not tea drinkers.
The cakes also tend to be expensive so I have not risked buying one. I think Yunna is the homeland of all teas, and i think thy probably have used tea bricks since those early times, 1000s years ago.
I am an oolong fiend really!
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Post by guzhenglover on Nov 1, 2006 3:16:26 GMT
Well good for you, syburn - join the oolong club!
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