• handmade item

• materials: big-leaved arbor tea leaves from the village of Guafeng Zhai

• shape: cake

• dimension: diameter 14 cm / 5.51 in

• weight: 200 g / 7.05 oz

Guafeng Zhai is located in the Yiwu mountain of Mengla county in eastern Xishuangbanna. Guafeng Zhai is a stockade village occupied with nearly 1000 residents of Yao and Miao ethnic groups. It is only 4 kilometers away from the China-Laos border. Ancient tea trees are scattered in primeval forests that measure around 50 sqkm around Guafeng Zhai. These tea trees grow with thick canopy, as a result they are exposed to lesser direct sunlight and grow relatively slow. The climate nurtures a tea with strong chaqi that linger with a soft after taste of sweetness and makes one reminisce about the tea mountains and fields.