Brick tea

Brick tea

Common grades of Chinese and Japanese tea mixed with stalk and dust and moulded into bricks under high pressure. Originally these bricks were used by Asian travellers as convenient way to transport the tea. Tea bricks were also used to barter for trade goods.

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