What made me think the cake is wet stored? Mostly the way the surface
of the tea looks, the colour of the leaves, etc... it looks dull and
not shiny. It's hard to tell with such a small picture. Dry stored
stuff don't really look like this though.

Indeed, if your relatives/friends don't know tea, buying puerh can be
difficult.

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