tibetan compressed tea

I also have heard that it's Puerh. Where did you find this denied?

/Lew

in the Lhasa Moon Tibetan Cookbook, here's a link to it on Amazon:

Great book BTW, but this makes me scratch my head. The author mentions that the tea used for Tibetan butter tea is not the same as pu-erh beeng cha, this yields a different flavor. Maybe the difference is in black vs. green pu-erh?

-ben

Maybe it's zhuan cha (tight brick, not loose cake as in beeng/bing cha.) If so, it would presumably still be Puerh, whether black or green.

/Lew

essentially its still pu-erh tea, and mostly come in the form of compressed shapes, e.g. mushrooms etc are especially common.