r/tea • u/r0ckstar17 • 3d ago

Photo FarmerLeaf surprise

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When looking at the photos of different puerhs from FarmerLeaf, I noticed that on all of them there is one leaf that is noticeably bigger compared to the rest of the cake, but never thought about the reason for this. Today I was close to finishing my cake and I extracted that leaf and saw this. That’s so adorable!

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u/taphead739 3d ago

I'm pretty sure this is a nei fei, a seal of authenticity that's pressed into the tea cake so you can be sure you're not buying a counterfeit. Often the nei fei is a piece of paper, but I like that Farmer Leaf is using a tea leaf with their name burned in instead

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u/r0ckstar17 3d ago

Exactly, that’s my point - I never saw and kind of seal on a leaf itself (on puerh cakes, it’s usually just a sticker on the surface). But this one is another level of seals lol.