Chinese Tea Bricks

Tea bricks are basically large blocks of compressed tea leaves. These tea blocks are basically a bunch of tea leaves squeezed into a rectangular shape. Tea bricks used to be used in ancient China as a form of currency. Tea brick were and are still used in parts of china as food and tea. Tea Bricks can still be purchased online for those who want to buy a whole lot of tea all at one time. However tea bricks are rarely eaten, instead the tea bricks are broken apart and the tea leaves are brewed.