Best mini-cakes?

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Best mini-cakes?

by maxman » Aug 17th, '09, 22:01

Most of my tea drinking needs to be done during the day, at work. I need convenience. I've used the "tea candy" cakes from the Pu-erh Shop and they worked out OK. I was wondering if anyone could recommend some other good single brew sized cakes.
I know they are not the best quality, but I need convenience.
Thanks

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Re: Best mini-cakes?

by wyardley » Aug 17th, '09, 22:33

Why not just either buy loose pu'er, or break up a cake in advance, and store it in a jar or bag? That should be just about as convenient.

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Re: Best mini-cakes?

by JAS-eTea Guy » Aug 17th, '09, 22:43

wyardley wrote:Why not just either buy loose pu'er, or break up a cake in advance, and store it in a jar or bag? That should be just about as convenient.
+1 This is what I do. It works extremely well for me.

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Re: Best mini-cakes?

by shogun89 » Aug 18th, '09, 16:22

wyardley wrote:Why not just either buy loose pu'er, or break up a cake in advance, and store it in a jar or bag? That should be just about as convenient.
+1

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Re: Best mini-cakes?

by maxman » Aug 18th, '09, 18:04

So how do you brew it at work?

At home I use a small Halls teapot. I rinse one time then infuse with ~100ml of water till done. Do you do anything different at work?

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Re: Best mini-cakes?

by Zanaspus » Aug 18th, '09, 19:32

In my opinion, best mini cakes is like requesting best Yugoslavian car.

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Re: Best mini-cakes?

by aKnightWhoSaysNi » Aug 18th, '09, 22:03

I have a theory that the materials that are used to make minis is whatever gets swept off the floor of the tea factory at the end of the day. I tried out those Tibetan "tea coins" once- almost knowing that it would be terrible but giving them the benefit of a doubt. It was the first and last time that I ever gave any tea miniatures the benefit of a doubt.

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Re: Best mini-cakes?

by coloradopu » Aug 22nd, '09, 11:33

why not try tea gell "cha gau"

just a thought for at work

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Re: Best mini-cakes?

by apache » Aug 28th, '09, 03:04

This likes a box of chocolate!
http://www.51puer.com/goods.php?id=912

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Re: Best mini-cakes?

by shogun89 » Aug 28th, '09, 09:09

apache wrote:This likes a box of chocolate!
http://www.51puer.com/goods.php?id=912
They do indeed! They look just terrible.

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