China(Shenzhen) International Tea Expo, episode 4, compressed tea making

People are always wonder how tea cake or Tuocha (bowl shape 沱茶 ) compressed tea are made. There are demonstration of making tea in the Expo, catching many ppls attention. Normally they steam the raw tea leaf, then some of them use to make tea cake and some of them make bowl shape compressed tea.

On the tea cake making side, we can see there are four steamers (look like rice cooker), two big tea cake compress stone and several workers.

On the other side, two worker are working on bowl shape tea. Actually I'm not sure what kind of tea they are making, however they said it is a kind of organic tea and can be drink immediately. Many ppl are trying at once, but I do not have much interest. But it is nice to see a live demonstration of making compressed tea. The bowl shape tea weight over 300g and cost 320 dollars.