Use http://www.panix.com/~perin/babelcarp.html for Chinese tea terms.
Puer can also be thought of in architectural terms. Look up the
character for cake, brick, or bowl. Also the wellknown factories
Menghai or Xiaguan. The Chinese characters for Chi Tse or Qi Zi
usually refer to the cake stacked in bundles. I think you are better
off knowing what to look for than asking someone in the Chinese.

Jim

bbh2o wrote:
> hola,
>
> i've been for some time wandering around chinese food stores in madrid
> searching for chinese teas, compressed ones, and classes about tea. i
> gave up on this last thing at the moment, and for the teas, decided to
> go with a written puercha letters in chinese [普洱茶], also with any
> luck. so, didn't even think about asking for compressed.
>
> anyway, for the compressed teas, is there any character [or
> characters] for compressed tea in general in chinese?
>
> babelfish says:
> 浓缩茶 for the simplified
> 濃縮茶 for the traditional
>
> is it correct? would they understand me?
>
> regards from madrid, spain
> bonifacio barrio hijosa
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