Sunday, September 10, 2006

"Guangyun Royal Tea Cake"


The photo shows both "Guangdong Tea Cake" of 1960s and 1970s.

Why do people call some of them as "Guangyun Royal Tea Cake" or "Guangyun Gong Beeng"?

The "Guangyun Royal Tea Cake" was named in a book called Puerh Tea wrote by Mr. Deng in 1995. Mr. Deng was of the view that the quality of the "Guangyun Royal Tea Cake" was not bad and having a good taste in 1995. After discussion with other tea experts, they all judged that this "Guangyun Royal Tea Cake" was mixed with Yunnan tea leaves and compressed in Guangdong however. Therefore, Mr. Deng called this good 1960s' Guangdong Take Cake as "Guangyun Royal Tea Cake".

Thus, "Guangyun Royal Tea Cake" should only refer to 1960s' supreme "Guangdone Tea Cake". In fact, "Guangyun Royal Tea Cake" is also "Guangdong Take Cake".

From the photo, we can see that there are differences in the dry tea leaves and the shape of tea cake betweeen the two 1960s' and 1970s'. Those differences are decisive to the great qualities discrepancy.

Therefore, Cloud is of the view that only the 1960s "Guangdong Tea Cake" with good quality and taste can be truely named as "Guangyun Royal Tea Cake".

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