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Tibetan Tea

Also known as Zang Cha, Tibeti

Dark tea · Tea style · Ya'an, Sichuan, China · Tibetan, Chinese

A post-fermented tea from Ya'an in Sichuan, long traded as brick tea between China and Tibet and carried over the caravan routes by yak. In Tibet, fermented teas like this are boiled with yak butter for butter tea.

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