Found a very interesting thing at a local Korean market.... I thought I was buying some very dense teabags, sold by the "Yunnan Haichao Teablocks Co. Ltd" but when I got them home I found that they were actually tiny little compressed tea blocks, perhaps 2 cm on a side and with a depression on the top to make them come apart better.
This stuff turns out to be a respectable jasmine tea, nothing amazing but a slightly higher grade than the Fujian yellow box type. But the packaging in small compressed blocks is actually very convenient for travelling (which in fact is why I was looking for tea bags at the time).
Does anyone know these guys, and do they make any higher grade teas?
--scott