Mandala Phatty Cake II: The Sequel from Mandala Tea

Mandala Phatty Cake II: The Sequel

Tea type
Pu'erh Tea
Ingredients
Pu Erh Tea
Flavors
Chocolate, Forest Floor, Leather, Peat, Petrichor, Thick, Wood, Mushrooms, Camphor, Cocoa, Earth, Mineral, Smoke, Spices, Sweet, Vanilla, Wet Earth, Wet Rocks, Campfire, Maple Syrup, Tobacco, Caramel, Ash, Clay, Ocean Breeze, Fruity, Dark Chocolate, Molasses, Oak, Fig, Hay, Honey, Plum
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Edit tea info Last updated by eastkyteaguy
Average preparation
Boiling 1 min, 30 sec 5 g 6 oz / 178 ml

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From Mandala Tea

The follow up to our very popular Phatty Cake. We used the same material, but added grade 3 leave to the mix which gives a more interesting gongfu experience.

Save money by ordering a tong. Traditional “case” size for pu’er tea is seven cakes (beeng). The hand-tied bamboo sheath wrapper is a beautiful addition to your tea collection. A full tong purchase saves you $35. You’ll be drinking cup after cup of delicious, classy ripe pu’er for under $3 per ounce and gifting cakes to your friends who still think pu’er is that weird, fishy stuff from the Asian market. Score!

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Free sample with my order – thank you so much Garret and Jamie.
Sample is 8g , very generous.
I love it. Dark, sweet, thick and creamy. Very flavorful. I enjoyed it a lot and want to include it with my coming up order to take advantage of this crazy fabulous 50% sale.
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TheTeaFairy
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Yep,crazy and fabulous is right :-)

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Bow down to the delicious Phatty Cake II

WIth gongfu steeping, I found Phatty Cake II started sharp, strong and rich – almost abrasive. Each steeping, this tea mellows on you, like it got to know you and is now friendly. Chocolately, woodsy, vanilla, very smooth, mineral notes, and spice.

Full review on my blog, The Oolong Owl http://oolongowl.com/phatty-cake-ii-ripe-puer-mandala-tea-oolong-owl-tea-review/
Preparation
Boiling
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This is really wonderful to read here and on your blog, my friend! I had a session with this on Sunday and was super pleased about it. Whenever I first make a ripe pressing, it takes a few months for things to really start shaking out. There is some curing that needs to happen before they can begin coming of age and this one was no exception. When I first tasted the pressing (about 3 weeks after pressing), I was not so excited. But just as with every other pressing I’ve done, I remind myself that it will change significantly over the first 3 or 4 months.

Reading your take on it, coupled with my Sunday exploration of it, makes me realize that this is a great cake. Not that I don’t trust myself to know whether it is good or not, it’s just nice to have a trusted friend mirror back to me what I was thinking.

So thank you for that!

Rockin’ in the tea world,
Garret

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I love that the picture looks like a stack of PANcakes. haha.

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