You don't have to comb the Internet. This group is just as definitive
as any webpage. Tong means tube. It is a stack of cakes in bamboo
wrapping. Normally the number is seven 357g cakes called a QiZi. Fang
means square. It is the small 10g+- cubes of puer. Larger 100g bricks
are called zhuancha. Cake numbers are well established formulas which
can be replicated by any factory.but in practice only a few choose to
do so.

Jim

Dominic T. wrote:
....snip-a-roo...
> 2. I see a lot of different terms and numbers tossed around for Pu-erh
> that I never can find a definitive guide for. Like the numbers of the
> cakes, I know they stand for the factory, etc. but where does one go to
> figure them out. And terms like tong and fangcha are new to me. I know
> that these can be answered by scouring the web, but is there a single
> place for a good comprehensive breakdown?
>
> Thanks,
> - Dominic