Specialty Teahouses

CHENGPION Tea House 埕畔茶坊

Appointment-only Dadaocheng shophouse for high-mountain oolong.

Appointment-only specialty tea house in the historic Dadaocheng tea district. Serious gongfu service of Taiwanese high-mountain oolong and aged teas in a quiet restored shophouse.

Dadaocheng$$$

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Fu Da Tong 福大同

180 years of charcoal-roasting craft, six generations in old Wanhua.

Six-generation tea family established 1845 in old Wanhua (Bangka). Founder Cai Han was a Qing-era court physician who turned to tea farming in Anxi and brought the craft to Taiwan. Specialty: traditional charcoal-basket roasting (焙籠), aged Wuyi rock tea, Anxi Tieguanyin, aged Taiwanese oolong, and Yunnan ancient-tree puer cellared in their own dry storage. Tea shop in the heritage register. Visit to source aged and well-roasted leaves rather than for sit-down service.

4.6Wanhua$$

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Jassid Tea House

Single-estate high-mountain oolongs from named growers.

Specialty Taiwanese tea house with a focus on single-estate high-mountain oolongs from named growers. Gongfu service, careful water, small tasting room.

Da'an$$$

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Lin Hua Tai Tea

Taipei's Baozhong specialist, family-run since 1883.

Family-run in Dadaocheng since 1883, one of Taiwan's oldest tea trade names. Baozhong specialist selling loose leaves by weight rather than sit-down gongfu. Suppliers to Taipei's serious tea venues, South Street Delight among them.

4.4Dadaocheng$

Liuyu Teahouse 柳隅茶舍

Slow contemporary gongfu in a wood-and-stone Da'an room.

Quiet contemporary teahouse in Wanhua, in the underground arcade near Longshan Temple MRT. Focus on Taiwanese single-origin oolong, aged teas, and small-farmer puer sourced via organic contract farming. Owner provides slow gongfu service with personal teaware sets and speaks five languages.

Wanhua$$

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Maokong Tea House 貓空茶屋

A specific Maokong hillside operator with views of Taipei.

Maokong hillside teahouse on Lane 38 of Zhinan Road, pouring Baozhong, Tieguanyin and Taiwanese oolongs grown on the surrounding slopes. Views over Taipei.

Maokong$$

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Morning Tea House 早晨茶坊

A family Maokong hillside teahouse over the tea fields.

Family-run hillside teahouse in Maokong serving Taiwanese oolongs from the surrounding plantations. Quiet, casual, with views over the tea fields.

Maokong$$

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Qingtian Tea House

A former professor's dormitory turned oolong tea room.

Tea house in a 1930s Japanese-era professor’s residence, restored by Caves Gallery in a quiet Da’an lane. Primary focus on Yunnan raw (sheng) puer, with Taiwanese teas as a secondary offering. Gallery-meets-teahouse atmosphere that works as both a tasting venue and an exhibition space.

4.5Da'an$$

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South Street Delight 南街得意

Sunlit Dihua Street tea room with traditional desserts.

Sunlit tea room above the Dadaocheng historic district, pairing Taiwanese teas with traditional desserts. Rotating seasonal sweets and views over Dihua Street.

Dadaocheng$$

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Wang Tea 有記名茶

1890 charcoal-roasting refinery, the original of the Wang Tea family.

Wang Tea factory and museum, founded 1890 in Dadaocheng. Five generations of charcoal-roasting heritage. Specialty: Wenshan Pouchong (light oxidation, light roast), traditional Tieguanyin, roasted oolongs from the on-site refinery. The original of the family. Sit alongside the working factory and see how charcoal roast actually works. Sibling to the contemporary Wangtea Lab next door at #24.

4.5Datong (Dadaocheng)$$

Wangtea Lab 王有記

The contemporary bar of Datong's 1890 charcoal-roasting tea house.

The contemporary tasting room of Wang Tea 有記名茶, established 2020 as the modern arm of the 1890 family tea house. Innovative drinks: sparkling tea, tea beer, tea cocktails, alongside traditional Pouchong, Tieguanyin, and roasted oolongs. The historic refinery factory and museum sit next door at #26 of the same lane. Stylish, walk-in-friendly, contemporary register.

Datong (Dadaocheng)$$$

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Wistaria Tea House

A 1920s landmark that once sheltered Taipei's intellectuals.

1920s Japanese-era building that once sheltered Taiwan's dissident intellectuals, later a courtyard gongfu oolong house. Currently closed for renovation 2024-2027 and will reopen as Taipei's first humanities tea house when restoration completes.

4.2Da'an$$

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Xiaoman Tea Experience 小慢

A pilgrimage stop. Tea master Hsieh Hsiao-Man's antique room.

Appointment-only room run by tea master Hsieh Hsiao-Man, pouring Taiwanese, Chinese and Japanese teas in slow ceremonial tastings surrounded by antiques. Serious drinkers make the trip.

Da'an$$$

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Xiaoyin Tea Temple 小隱茶庵 Dongmen

A tucked-away Dongmen room for Taiwanese oolong.

Quiet Dongmen teahouse with a small tatami-influenced room. Taiwanese oolongs and aged teas served gongfu-style at slow pace.

Zhongzheng (Dongmen)$$$

Yaoyue Teahouse 邀月茶坊

Maokong's 24-hour landmark. Tea on the hill since the 1980s.

A 24-hour teahouse in Maokong, on the hillside above Taipei. Established in the 1980s, family-run, with terraced outdoor seating overlooking the tea plantations and city below. Local Baozhong, Tieguanyin and Taiwanese oolongs grown on the surrounding hills. Maokong has 40+ teahouses and trends touristy on weekends and during the lantern season. Yaoyue is one of the more substantial gongfu-friendly venues in the area.

4.3Maokong$$

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Yetang 冶堂

He Jian’s tea-culture workshop, four decades of pottery and puer.

Tea-culture workshop run by He Jian 何健, the 1985 Chinese Tea Art Champion. Not a typical teahouse but a small museum-like room of antique teaware, Yixing pottery, and Yunnan puer leaves. He Jian researched Yixing pottery (1985-1994), then Yunnan raw puer (1994-2002), then opened on Yongkang Street to share. A pilgrimage venue parallel to Xiaoman, oriented toward pottery and puer rather than gongfu instruction. Open Tue-Sun, afternoons only.

4.7Yongkang (Da’an)$$

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老茶罐 Old Tea Jar

Aged oolongs and traditional teaware on Yongkang Street.

Small specialty Taiwanese tea shop on Yongkang Street in Da'an, in the heart of Taipei's old-soul food and tea quarter. Aged oolongs and traditional teaware.

Yongkang$$

Sydney

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Altitude Tea Room

A high-altitude tea practice, with a room in Waterloo.

Run by Cara Chen, a gongfu cha practitioner who started the Altitude Tea brand in 2014 and opened the physical room in 2021. Single-origin premium loose-leaf tea with a focus on high-altitude grown varieties, served in traditional gongfu sessions paired with sound meditation. Book ahead for ceremonies.

Waterloo$$

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Ambi's Chai Bar

Sydney's specialty chai bar, powerful and spicy.

Specialty masala chai bar that opened in Pennant Hills in 2019, grew to North Sydney in 2022, and added a Kent Street CBD location in 2024. Powerful, spicy brews in an Afro-Punjabi style. Sydney's only dedicated chai specialist. The CBD outlet is the city-centre canonical for short visits.

Sydney CBD$

China Tea

A 1938 Yunnan house, with an Australian outpost.

Outpost of one of China's largest tea companies (founded 1938), now selling in Australia for the first time. Pu'er specialists representing reputable Yunnan factories, with complimentary tea tastings on the shop floor. Inside the Mandarin Centre on Albert Avenue.

Chatswood$$

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Cre Asion

Sydney's matcha cafe pioneer, since 2011.

Tiny Japanese cafe in Pyrmont opened by owner-chef Yu Sasaki in 2011, well before matcha became fashionable. Sasaki's fine-dining background (Marque, Universal, French Laundry) shows in the matcha lattes, roll cakes, macarons, and pastries in yuzu, soybean, matcha, and hojicha flavours. A North Sydney sibling came later.

Pyrmont$

Long's Tea House

Hurstville's puer specialist, retail-only after COVID.

High-end pu'er specialist in Hurstville with an extensive retail selection of traditional Chinese teas. Originally a sit-down gongfu room. Sit-down service was discontinued after COVID and the space now focuses on the retail and tea events side. Worth a visit for the pu'er stock.

Hurstville$$

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MY Tea House

The largest tea range in the city, curated by Raymond.

Possibly the largest range of teas in Sydney, curated by proprietor Raymond. No formal sit-down room, but Raymond runs paid specialty tasting sessions (tea journeys) that can stretch several hours, balancing brews carefully to avoid tea intoxication. Book ahead for tastings.

Neutral Bay$$

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Ms.Cattea Tea Bar

Tea science meets tea bar, in Potts Point.

Modern tea bar in Potts Point run by Cathy Zhang, who holds a degree in tea science and a master of tea ceremony certification. Around 100 teas including rare niche varieties, matcha, and tea-based cocktails. Began as an online retailer in 2019 before opening the physical bar. Tea classes and seasonal features rotate.

Potts Point$$

Rushi Tea House 如是茶舍

A gongfu room beside the sutra-writing tables.

Buddhist-oriented gongfu tea house relocated to Rosebery in August 2025 from its earlier Chatswood premises. Traditional service in a large open space with private rooms, complementing on-site sutra-writing activities. Selection runs to songzhong dancong and Wuyi dahongpao yancha among others.

Rosebery$$

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Simply Native

A Goulburn Street chanoyu room, Urasenke-trained.

Small Japanese homewares and tea shop on Goulburn Street, run by Yukino, an Urasenke tea practitioner. Stocks Marukyu Koyamaen matcha (a historic Uji producer), herbal teas, condiments, and Japanese sweets alongside ceramics and tea tools. Runs Chakabuki blind-tasting workshops and a Yobanashi candlelit night tea ceremony.

Surry Hills$$

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Taka Tea Garden

The first specialty Japanese tea house in Australia, since 1999.

Opened in 1999 by Taka Pan and Helen Kwok, the first specialty Japanese tea establishment in Australia. Premium Japanese green and white tea anchors the selection, alongside Taiwanese and Chinese green and white teas, German herbal, Ceylon black, and Japanese traditional teaware. Taka was born in Sydney and raised in Japan.

Double Bay$$

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Tea Craft

A wholesale tea operation, by appointment.

Wholesale and retail tea operation in Lidcombe run by Arthur Tong. Fully hosted tastings by appointment only, weekdays only. The buying side matters here more than the sit-down experience: a serious wholesale operation that opens its tasting room when you book ahead.

Lidcombe$$

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Tea Journal

Family-sourced tea, modern gongfu, an interchange away.

Modern Chinese tea house in Chatswood Interchange, founded by Sunny who sources some teas from his family's plantation. Range covers pu'er (with a flagship 16-year-old AUD 600 cake), oolong, white and herbal. Flexible teaware on the table: traditional ceramic gongfu or modern glass for newcomers.

Chatswood$$

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TopoTea

From market stall to Chinatown teaware destination.

Founded by Shane Shu and evolved from a market stall to a Chinatown institution in the Sussex Centre. Carries popular Chinese and Taiwanese teas alongside rarer estate teas, with one of the widest ranges of traditional teaware in Sydney. Impromptu tastings when the shop is quiet. Also hosts guqin music and calligraphy workshops.

Haymarket$$

Zensation Tea House

Two decades of Chinese tea, the Sydney anchor.

Sydney's longest-running Chinese teahouse, opened in Surry Hills/Redfern around 2004 and moved to the larger Waterloo premises in 2018. Full-service gongfu room with Chinese, Taiwanese and Japanese teas, an Asian food menu, and an extensive teaware selection. Hosts regular tea-culture events and degustations.

Waterloo$$

London

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Amitabha Garden

Ninety-minute guided gongfu in a Greenwich garden hush.

Ninety-minute guided gongfu sessions in a Greenwich garden, with rare Chinese teas and traditional pastries

4.7Greenwich$$$

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Gegend London

A quiet upstairs pause for Chinese tea and ikebana.

Upstairs Shoreditch tea room and gallery in a Rivington Street pump house. Chinese teas served on floor cushions with wagashi, plus rotating ikebana, incense workshops and small exhibitions in the same space.

Shoreditch$$$

JY House London 久遇茶室

An Avery Row gongfu room for careful Chinese tea.

Mayfair Chinese tea room off Bond Street, focused on traditional gongfu brewing and careful temperature control. Owner-led sessions and single-origin teas from mainland China and Taiwan.

Mayfair$$$

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Keiko Uchida

A Notting Hill room for Japanese tea and ceramics.

Notting Hill Japanese tea house opened in summer 2025 by Keiko Uchida, a former restaurateur. Ceremonial matcha and single-origin sencha, gyokuro, genmaicha and hojicha, plus tea-ceremony workshops and a ceramics gallery in the same room.

Notting Hill$$

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King's Cross (Coal Drops Yard)$$

MATCHADO

Hiromi Matsunobu's matcha, at Coal Drops Yard.

Japanese matcha specialist founded by Hiromi Matsunobu, with four London sites. Coal Drops Yard is the King's Cross location: matcha lattes and pours, hojicha, handmade Japanese sweets, and a small teaware counter. Sibling shops in Chiswick, Bloomsbury and Acton.

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Mei Leaf

Camden's quiet temple to gongfu, run by London's tea evangelists.

Camden tasting room where gongfu sessions run through small-farm teas from China and Taiwan

4.7Camden$$

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Postcard Teas

Single-origin teas from farms under fifteen acres.

Tiny Mayfair shop sourcing single-origin teas from small farms under 15 acres worldwide. Every tea traceable to its maker.

4.8Mayfair$$

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TOKKIA Soho

Korean matcha whisked one cup at a time, on Berwick Street.

Sooji Im's Berwick Street counter is a Korean matcha specialist. Every cup whisked to order with water softened through bangjja brassware, plus hojicha lattes and warm sogeum-bbang salt bread from a bakery sibling. A Covent Garden sister opened first.

Soho$$

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Teanamu Chaya Teahouse

A plant-filled hideaway for slow seasonal tea flights.

Plant-filled tea room in Shepherd's Bush pouring seasonal tea flights, with regular workshops and tea ceremonies.

4.8Shepherd's Bush$$

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The Chinese Tea Company

A little corner of China tucked under Portobello's Westway.

Specialist Chinese tea shop tucked inside Portobello Green Arcade under the Westway. Loose-leaf teas spanning green, white, oolong, red, puer and dark, plus handcrafted teaware including Yixing and Chaozhou pots. Private tasting sessions and tea classes available.

Notting Hill$$

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Yushu Tea Gallery

Owner-led Chinese and Taiwanese tea sessions in Soho.

Specialty Chinese and Taiwanese tea gallery in Soho, with gongfu service and owner-led tastings in a small design-led room.

Soho$$$

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莲·境 Lotus Realm

Chinese tea by day, tea cocktails after dark.

Two-floor Chinese tea house off Oxford Street, with a pastel-toned upstairs room and a tea cocktail bar in the basement. Straight Chinese tea by day, cocktails built around Da Hong Pao and pu-erh at night, and rotating exhibitions by young Chinese artists.

Fitzrovia$$$

Shanghai

Amanyangyun Bei Teahouse (安缦养云北茶室)

A tea ceremony hidden inside a camphor forest.

Aman's tea house at the Sheshan resort, housed in a Kerry Hill-designed pavilion inside the transplanted camphor forest and Ming-Qing courtyards of Yangyun village. Seasonal tastings led by a resident tea master, and non-residents can book through the hotel.

Minhang$$$

Jing'an (Changle Road)$$$

Bannong 半濃

Hidden Changle Road lane house. Appointment only.

Lane-house tea room on Changle Road combining tea, vegetarian food, teaware, traditional snacks and curios. Founded by a tea-and-craft community, appointment-only, and rarely promoted online. One sitting can easily run into an afternoon.

Xuhui (former French Concession)$$$

Canghai Wenhui 沧海文会

A 1940s villa devoted to Wuyi rock tea, white and puer.

Inside Yi Yuan, a 1940s villa compound in the former French Concession. Focused on Min and Tai oolong (Wuyi yancha, Tieguanyin), aged white tea, and puer. Scholarly room built for serious tasting rather than passing trade.

Chan Bian Tea Room 禅边茶室

A three-floor wall of aged tea, devoted to Tibetan dark.

Converted factory across three floors (Water Zen / Earth Zen / Heaven Zen) with a three-storey wall of aged tea. Specialises in Tibetan dark tea (zang cha), an intangible-cultural-heritage hei cha rarely served in city teahouses. Private rooms named Chu Chan, Fu Sheng, Ru Meng, Bo Re, Wang Yue.

Xuhui (Huaihai Road)$$

Chanye Tea House (蝉野茶馆)

Cicadas on the rooftop, old trees in the pot.

A five-storey 1930s villa off Huaihai Middle Road, keeping the old rosewood staircase and adding a rooftop terrace that has become a Xiaohongshu regular. Menu leans into aged puer, old shou mei and Da Hong Pao by the pot.

Xuhui$$

Xuhui (former French Concession)$$$

Dake Tang Pu'er Club 大可堂普洱会所

Three storeys of aged puer inside a 1933 Shanghai villa.

Three-storey 1933 French-style garden villa devoted to aged puer, founded by collector Zhang Qiming. Private rooms named after puer origins and a library of vintage cakes on the ground floor.

Gongshengtang (共生堂)

Drink tea beside the pot that made it.

A two-storey tea house inside a park courtyard on Kaixuan Road, doubling as a private gallery for Yixing purple clay from the Li family kiln. Chinese afternoon tea by the pot, with tasting flights in the second-floor private rooms.

Changning$$

Jiushiye Matcha (九十叶·抹茶)

Order your matcha by grade, like an espresso.

A dedicated matcha counter on the B2 of Xintiandi Plaza, grading matcha from level 1 to level 5 so you choose the strength before it is whisked. Uji stone-ground powder, matcha shots, lattes and small tasting flights.

Huangpu$

Shan Yu Cao She (山余草舍)

A Jiangnan garden folded inside a Fuxing Road lane.

A Suzhou-style private garden inside the Rose Villa lane on Fuxing West Road, with covered corridors, rockery and antique tea vessels arranged by the owner. Small pot service, house calligraphy on the walls, and a resident cat wandering the courtyard.

Xuhui$$$

Tianshan Tea City (天山茶城)

One building, most of the Chinese tea world.

Three-floor tea market with 150-plus vendors selling every major Chinese tea and the teaware to brew it. Most stalls invite you to sit at a wooden stool and taste through a few grades before you buy, so it works as a retail visit and an informal tasting tour at once.

Changning$$

Yan Zizai (晏·自在)

Rare leaves, Song tea whisks, one owner picking every pot.

Owner Yan Ping's private tea salon on Fuxing West Road, with a small courtyard of banana leaves and rockery. Rare teas from her personal cellar and occasional Song-dynasty dian cha demonstrations by tea-ceremony instructor Han Zheming.

Xuhui$$$

Xuhui (Hengshan Road area)$$

Zhiliao Tea House 知了茶馆

An unsigned gallery-teahouse hybrid near Hengshan Road.

Teahouse and gallery hybrid near Hengshan Road with no signage, entered through a planted courtyard. A series of small tasting rooms with rotating contemporary art, kept quiet and uncommercial.

Hong Kong

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Chas by the Time

A design-led specialty tea bar in Sheung Wan.

Contemporary specialty tea bar in Sheung Wan stocking single-origin Chinese and Taiwanese teas. Quiet design-led room, hand-brewed gongfu service.

Sheung Wan$$

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Cheung Hing Tea Hong 祥興茶行

A collector's destination for vintage puer and Liu Bao.

Veteran Hong Kong tea merchant in Sheung Wan stocking aged puer and Liu Bao. Collectors come to taste vintage cakes at the counter.

Sheung Wan$$$

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Fukien Tea Co

A Bonham Strand veteran specialising in Wuyi rock tea.

Historic Fujianese tea merchant on Bonham Strand specialising in Wuyi yancha, Anxi Tieguanyin and aged oolong. One of the long-standing names in Hong Kong's traditional tea trade.

Sheung Wan$$

Lock Cha Tea House (Hong Kong Park)

The original Lock Cha, beside the city's tea ware museum.

Original Lock Cha branch inside the K.S. Lo Gallery in Hong Kong Park, beside the Flagstaff House Museum of Tea Ware. Traditional gongfu tea and vegetarian dim sum in a colonial-era pavilion.

Admiralty$$

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Lock Cha Tea House (Tai Kwun)

A Hong Kong tea institution, inside Tai Kwun.

Hong Kong tea institution inside Tai Kwun, the restored Central Police Station heritage compound. Traditional gongfu service of Chinese teas with vegetarian dim sum, plus frequent guqin and tea ceremony events.

Central$$

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Ming Heung Tea 茗香茶莊

Old-school Sheung Wan merchant for aged puer and oolong.

Old-school Hong Kong tea merchant in Sheung Wan's tea trade district. Family-run shop selling aged puer, oolong and traditional Chinese teas with tasting at the counter.

Kowloon City$$

Plantation Tea Bar

A Mallory Street tea bar in the restored Blue House.

Modern specialty tea bar on Mallory Street inside the restored Blue House cluster. Single-origin Chinese, Taiwanese and Japanese teas served with simple sweets.

Wan Chai$$

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Yee On Tea 義安茶莊

A long-established merchant with deep aged puer and white.

Long-established Hong Kong tea merchant carrying a deep range of Chinese teas including aged puer, oolong and white tea. Traditional shopfront with on-site tasting.

Sai Ying Pun$$

Yuan Yuan Tang 源源堂

A Chinese tea house on historic Tai Ping Shan Street.

Specialty Chinese tea house in the Tai Cheung Building on Tai Ping Shan Street, Sheung Wan. Small selection of Chinese teas with gongfu service.

Sheung Wan$$

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Yú Teahouse

A tenth-floor hideaway above Wan Chai, for slow gongfu.

Modern teahouse on the upper floors of a Wan Chai building with city views. Chinese and Taiwanese teas, contemporary ceramics, and a quiet room for slow gongfu sessions.

Wan Chai$$$

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雲茶境 Yun Cha Jing

A tenth-floor hideaway off Causeway Bay's Paterson Street.

Tenth-floor tea room inside Vienna Mansion off Paterson Street, Causeway Bay. Specialty Chinese teas served in a quiet residential flat above the shopping crowds.

Causeway Bay$$

Berlin

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BOHEA Teehandlung

Friedrichshain's tea sommelier shop: from gyokuro to aged puer.

Friedrichshain specialist tea shop with a deep bench of Japanese greens, Chinese puer, and rarer finds behind the counter.

Friedrichshain$$

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Berliner Teesalon

Over 300 unaromatised Asian teas in Charlottenburg.

Over 300 unflavoured Asian teas. Known for Wu Yi Shan rock oolongs and traditional Ti Kuan Yin. In-house tastings and tea seminars.

Charlottenburg$$

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C*SPACE Berlin

Coworking by day, Pop-Up Teahouse by season.

Creative coworking and event loft in a former Weissensee furniture factory. Hosts the Pop-Up Teahouse Berlin program with gongfu cha sessions, transcultural tea encounters, and AsiaBerlin community gatherings.

Weissensee$$

Chen Che Teehaus

A slice of Hoi An in Mitte: Vietnamese tea in a stunning setting.

Vietnamese-inspired tea house on Rosenthaler Strasse with fine Asian teas and Vietnamese cuisine. Beautiful Hoi An-inspired interior.

Mitte$$

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Dot Tea Bar 一点茶寮

Chinese tea by day, wine by night. Multiple brewing styles under one roof.

Chinese tea bar with gongfu cha, Chengdu gaiwan-style, and ceramic cauldron brewing alongside tea-infused cuisine. Berlin Tea Week participant.

Prenzlauer Berg$$

Mamecha

Matcha done right since 2010.

Japanese-run tea cafe since 2010. High-quality matcha, sencha, hojicha, genmaicha, and kukicha alongside Japanese food.

Mitte$$

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Nan Yi Tee

Four decades of Chinese tea and ceramics in Wilmersdorf.

Family-run Chinese tea specialist since 1982. Fine Chinese teas and tea ceramics. Sampling before buying, Chinese tea workshops.

Wilmersdorf$$

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Paper & Tea

Berlin's design-forward tea: whole leaf, wall to wall.

Berlin-born specialty tea brand since 2011. Whole-leaf hand-processed teas from sustainable cultivation. Design-forward retail with tastings.

Mitte$$$

The Feuerle Collection Tea Ceremony, Berlin

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The Feuerle Collection Tea Ceremony

Gongfu cha with gushu puer inside a WWII bunker: tea as art.

Chaozhou Gongfu Cha ceremonies inside a converted WWII bunker housing a world-class art collection. Gushu puer, dancong, aged Taiwanese oolong. Booking required.

Kreuzberg$$$

make tea not war

Direct-import Taiwanese oolong and Japanese sencha, brewed the right way.

Direct tea importer since 2013, shop since 2018. Organic teas from Japan and Taiwan. Gongfu cha oolong and Japanese sencha brewed properly.

Prenzlauer Berg$$

Kyoto

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Baisa Nakamura 売茶中村

Named for Baisao, the wandering monk who taught Japan sencha.

Uji tea house named after Baisao, the wandering monk who popularised sencha in 18th-century Japan. Uji teas served with quiet attention. Uji, listed under Kyoto.

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Bikouen 美好園

A central Kyoto family merchant for daily Uji sencha.

Long-running family tea merchant in central Kyoto stocking Uji teas. Quiet shop with a small in-store tasting counter and a following of Kyoto locals who come for daily-drinking sencha.

Shimogyo$$

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Horaido Tea Stall

A Teramachi tea stall since 1803, famous for serious matcha.

Tiny family tea stall on Teramachi-dori since 1803. Specialises in shaded Uji teas, particularly gyokuro and tencha. The shopfront is unchanged for decades and the matcha is famously serious.

Teramachi$$

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Mandaracha

Slow contemporary tea sessions in Higashiyama.

Contemporary Higashiyama tea room built around rare Japanese single-origin teas with extended hand-brewed service. Minimal seating and slow tasting menus.

Higashiyama$$$

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Matsusakaya 松阪屋

A long-running Uji merchant for matcha, gyokuro and sencha.

Long-running Uji tea merchant stocking matcha, gyokuro and sencha from local producers. Uji, listed under Kyoto.

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Ryuoen Tea Store

On Teramachi Street since 1875, five generations of tea.

Tiny tea shop on Teramachi since 1875, run by the same family for five generations. Uji matcha, gyokuro and sencha, milled to order.

Teramachi$$

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Tearoom Toka / Gallery Nichinichi

Quiet ceramics gallery and tatami tea room near Karasuma.

Quiet teahouse and ceramics gallery hybrid run by tea master Nichinichi. Seasonal Japanese tea pairings served on antique and contemporary teaware in a tatami room near Karasuma Oike.

Kamigyo$$$

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Tsuen Tea Main Branch

Founded 1160. Japan's oldest tea shop, by the Uji bridge.

Founded 1160 beside the Uji bridge, considered the oldest tea shop in Japan and run by the same Tsuen family for 24 generations. Traditional tea service and Uji matcha sweets. Uji, listed under Kyoto.

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Yamamoto Jinjiro 山本甚次郎

Stone-milled Uji matcha and shaded gyokuro near Byodoin.

Uji tea merchant specialising in stone-milled matcha and shaded gyokuro. Quiet shop a short walk from Byodoin temple, with on-site tasting. Uji, listed under Kyoto.

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茶ノ路 Road of Tea

A neighbourhood tea shop near the Philosopher's Path.

Small specialty tea shop in Jodoji (Sakyo-ku), a short walk from the Philosopher's Path, stocking Japanese teas from named producers.

Sakyo (Jodoji)$$

New York

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Cha-An 茶菴

Twenty years of Japanese tea and quiet hospitality above 9th Street.

Second-floor Japanese teahouse since 2004. Serious tea menu paired with seasonal wagashi and mochi in a calm space.

East Village$$

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Floating Mountain Tea House

A hidden tea room above the Upper West Side.

Second-floor tea room with over 90 single-origin Chinese teas brewed in traditional Chaozhou Gongfu Cha style. Ring the doorbell to enter.

Upper West Side$$

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Jin Yun Fu Tea Shop 锦云福

Song Dynasty tea rituals in the heart of Manhattan.

Gongfu tastings with Yixing teapots and Song Dynasty whisked tea since 1995. Antique and artisan teaware on the shelves. Reservations via Tock.

NoMad$$

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Kettl

Japan's finest teas, one cup at a time in Greenpoint.

Brooklyn Japanese tea shop sourcing direct from farms across Japan. Six-seat tasting counter alongside a small ceramics selection.

Greenpoint$$

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Puerh Brooklyn

New York's puer headquarters, hidden on Grand Street.

Dedicated puer specialist with 30+ varieties of sheng and shou. Basement gallery doubles as a gongfu tasting room with teas from China and Taiwan.

Williamsburg$$

Setsugekka 雪月花

Hand-ground, hand-whisked matcha from a true tea master.

Tea Master Souheki Mori grinds matcha in-house and hand-whisks every bowl to order. Sources from heritage family farms in Japan.

East Village$$

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Sorate Teahouse

One farm in Uji, one beautiful room in SoHo.

All teas from a single family-owned farm in Ujitawara-cho, Uji. Architect-designed space under original tin ceilings.

SoHo$$

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T Shop

Brew your own gongfu in a NoLita rear-store retreat.

Minimalist tasting room run by Theresa Wong. Pick a tea and brew it yourself gongfu-style with proper teaware provided.

NoLita$$

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Te Company

Taiwan in a teacup, tucked into a West Village brownstone.

Tiny salon devoted to Taiwanese teas, pairing single-origin oolongs with handmade tea snacks. Run by Elena Liao and former Per Se chef.

West Village$$

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Tea Dealers & Ceramics

Sixty single-cultivar teas and the ceramics to match.

Tea shop and ceramics gallery with 60+ unblended single-cultivar teas from small farms across Asia. Formerly the 29B Teahouse team.

Tribeca$$$

Tokyo

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A Drop Kuramae

A tiny Kuramae stand for hand-brewed sencha and matcha.

Tiny tea stand in the Kuramae craft district, pouring single-origin sencha and matcha by hand alongside seasonal Japanese sweets.

Kuramae$$

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Jugetsudo Tea Shop & Cafe

Japanese teas in a Kengo Kuma-designed bamboo room.

Maruyama Nori's tea brand in Tsukiji, housed in a Kengo Kuma bamboo interior. Japanese teas including aged matcha and gyokuro, served with wagashi.

Tsukiji$$

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Nakajima-no-ochaya

A floating teahouse on a Hamarikyu pond, since 1707.

Historic floating teahouse from 1707 set on a pond inside Hamarikyu Gardens. Freshly whisked matcha with seasonal wagashi.

4.6Hamarikyu Gardens$

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Sakurai Japanese Tea Experience

An Omotesando counter where Japanese tea becomes a meditation.

Omotesando tea counter serving single-origin Japanese teas alongside seasonal wagashi in a modern, meditative room.

4.5Omotesando$$$

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Saten Japanese Tea

Sakurai's casual Koenji little brother.

Koenji tea bar from the team behind Sakurai Tea Experience. Single-origin sencha, matcha and hojicha served with seasonal sweets.

Koenji$$

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Senchado Tokyo Ginza

Senchado, the slow art of leaf sencha, in central Ginza.

Ginza salon dedicated to senchado, the leaf-sencha way of brewing. Single-origin Japanese teas served gongfu-style with careful water and temperature.

Ginza$$$

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Thés du Japon

Cultivar-specific Japanese teas from Uji's smallest growers.

Florent Weugue's specialist source for cultivar-specific Japanese teas, focused on small Uji and Wazuka producers. Appointment-based tastings of single-cultivar sencha, kamairicha and tamaryokucha.

Yanaka$$$

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Tokyo Saryo

The world's first hand-drip Japanese green tea bar.

World's first hand-drip Japanese green tea stand. Side-by-side comparison flights of single-origin sencha brewed in custom drippers, served in a minimalist white space in Sangenjaya.

Sangenjaya$$

Hangzhou

Cong Wujie Chashi (丛无界茶室)

Chaoshan hands, Jingshan hills, single-cong served slow.

A rammed-earth farmhouse in Jingshan tea country run by a Chaoshan-born owner brewing Phoenix Dan Cong single-cong oolongs in full gongfu format. The rooms keep the original mud walls and wooden beams of the old farm building.

Yuhang$$

Deguang Qing Chaguan (得光清茶馆)

Aged white tea, canal light, wooden walls.

The only white-tea-focused room on Hangzhou's Grand Canal, in a two-storey Qing wooden structure on Qiaoxi Straight Street. Program built around aged Fujian white teas, poured canal-side under lantern light.

Gongshu$$

Fuyuntang Tea Book Academy (浮云堂茶书院)

A Yuan-dynasty painter's studio, still serving Longjing.

A tea house on the west bank of Yuhu Bay in the West Lake scenic area, on the site of Yuan-dynasty painter Huang Gongwang's Zijiu Grass Hall. Serious tea program built around West Lake Longjing and other Zhejiang greens, with a 268-yuan tea-seat minimum and reservation rooms overlooking the water.

Xihu (West Lake)$$$

Hupanju (湖畔居)

The Longjing house that looks out on the lake itself.

The iconic Hangzhou teahouse on West Lake's north shore, founded in 1998 on a small peninsula in the Shengtang scenic area with water on three sides. Signature Xi Hu Shifeng (Lion Peak) Longjing alongside more than a hundred teas from the China Tea Museum's certification programme.

Xihu (West Lake)$$$

Linxia Shuyuan (林下书院)

Old walls, older tea, a room for reading.

A century-old Jiangnan courtyard house on Xianlinbu Old Street, converted into a book-and-tea academy. Serves Xihu Longjing and Jiuqu Hongmei (Hangzhou's other native tea) alongside a regular calendar of tea gatherings and reading circles.

Yuhang$$

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Qingzhu Cha Shi (青竺茶食)

Tea fields, tatami, a hundred years of teacups.

The tea-food flagship of the Qingzhu group, in tea fields about a kilometre west of Lingyin Temple. Three tatami tea rooms on the ground floor, and the owner's collection of hundred-year-old teacups and tea vessels lines the walls and is available to buy.

Xihu$$$

Prague

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Banna House Čajová Komnata 茶室

A quiet Chinese tea chamber in residential Prague.

Quiet Chinese-style tea chamber in a residential corner of Prague. Gongfu service of Chinese oolong, sheng and shou puer, and aged white tea in a calm tatami-and-wood interior.

Nové Město$$

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Dobrá Čajovna

Czech Republic's first tea room, hidden off Wenceslas Square.

Czech Republic's first tea room, opened 1993 in a courtyard off Wenceslas Square, with each tea brewed to its origin's own method.

4.5Nové Město$$

Klasek Tea

Three decades of specialty Chinese, Taiwanese and Japanese tea.

Long-running Prague tea merchant founded by tea traveller Jiří Klásek. Wide selection of Chinese, Taiwanese and Japanese specialty teas with regular tastings and ceramics.

Holešovice$$

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Orijin Tea

Twenty years of luxury Chinese oolong and aged puer.

Twenty-year-old Prague specialist importing loose-leaf oolong and puer directly from China, alongside traditional teaware.

4.8Nové Město$$$

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Tea Mountain

Direct-trade single origins, including rare Nepalese teas.

Direct-trade specialty tea shop in Karlín, stocking Indian, Japanese, Chinese and rarer Nepalese single-origin leaves.

4.7Karlín$$$

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Tea Studio Meetea

Prague tea studio with annual sourcing trips to producers.

Small Prague tea studio devoted to Chinese and Taiwanese specialty teas. Regular gongfu tastings, tea workshops and sourcing trips, run by owners who travel to producers each year.

Nové Město$$

Singapore

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Jing Studio

Hangzhou-trained brewing inside Singapore's last Teochew mansion.

Eight-seat tea bar inside the 140-year-old House of Tan Yeok Nee, Singapore's last surviving Teochew mansion. Tea master William Chee, trained in Hangzhou, brews single-origin Chinese teas at the counter while guests watch.

Dhoby Ghaut$$

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MIURA

Whisked matcha and daifuku behind a Joo Chiat clothing store.

Japanese matcha stand at the back of In Good Company's Joo Chiat flagship, from the team behind Paaru. Matcha whisked to order alongside hojicha and handmade wagashi, in a fashion-store setting rather than a dedicated tea room.

Joo Chiat$$

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SILK Tea Bar

Sago Street oolongs, poured between a medicinal hall and a geomancer.

Second-floor Chinatown tea bar from Melody Teo and Xian Tan, wedged between a ground-floor medicinal hall and a third-floor geomancer's office. Oolong-heavy list with progressive session brews of Shuixian, Dan Cong and Fuding whites, spring-water brewing.

Chinatown$$

Tea Room by Ki-setsu

Yiwu pu-erh in an Orchard Plaza hideaway.

Reservation-only Chinese tea room inside Orchard Plaza, run by the Ki-setsu hospitality group. One-hour sessions built around aged pu-erh and oolong sourced direct from Bulang Mountain and Yiwu, one group per booking.

Orchard$$$

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Tea at Atelier Cherub 三山望月茶舍

Yancha from Wuyi, poured in a Kampong Glam atelier.

Chaozhou gongfu and Wuyi yancha sessions inside a shophouse art atelier on North Bridge Road. Founder T sources yancha directly from Wuyi Mountain and structures each visit as a course of teas paired with small sweets and savouries.

Kampong Glam$$$

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inner.teahouse

A Xiamen native's Fujian tea, poured slowly above Keong Saik.

Third-floor tea room above a Keong Saik shophouse, run by Jane Cai from Xiamen. Fujian teas sourced from farmers she knows personally, brewed gaiwan-style across eight infusions in 90-minute reservation sessions.

Keong Saik$$$

Los Angeles

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Chado Tea Room

Four hundred teas deep, three decades strong.

LA's longest-running specialty tea spot, 30+ years with over 400 varieties. Downtown location inside the Japanese American National Museum.

Little Tokyo$$

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Steep 漫

Modern gongfu in the heart of Chinatown, sourced the old-fashioned way.

Modern minimalist Chinatown teahouse with DIY and guided gongfu sessions. Personally sourced from China and Taiwan across five major tea categories.

Chinatown$$

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Tea Habitat

Imen Shan's dancong, by appointment.

Appointment-only tasting room, a dancong oolong specialist in North America run by Imen Shan with direct Guangdong Province sourcing.

Alhambra$$$

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Tea Master Matcha Cafe

First-harvest matcha and real Japanese tea culture in Little Tokyo.

Run by Daigoro, an Edosenke tea ceremony practitioner. All matcha is first-harvest. Staff walk you through grades and origins.

Little Tokyo$$

Wing Hop Fung 永合豐

The puer cave and bulk tea paradise of the San Gabriel Valley.

Sprawling emporium since 1985. Hundreds of loose-leaf jars, stacks of puer cakes, and multiple grades of everything from Longjing to Tie Guan Yin.

Monterey Park$

Portland

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Enthea Teahouse

A house full of 200 farm-direct Chinese teas, poured in handmade cups.

A house-turned-teahouse with over 200 small-batch Chinese teas from decade-long farming family relationships. Gongfu service in handmade teaware.

Brooklyn$$

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Fly Awake Tea House

Fifteen steeps deep in a North Portland secret.

North Portland spot serving Chinese teas gongfu-style. Ancient grove teas, up to 15 steeps per session.

Boise$

Qi Fine Teas 七茶

Two tea masters, 400 villages, one impeccable selection.

Two China-certified Senior Tea Masters who spent 17 years exploring 400+ villages. Small selection of first-spring harvest teas.

Pearl District$$$

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Smith Teamaker

The man who built Stash and Tazo saved his best work for last.

Founded by Steven Smith (Stash Tea, Tazo). Small-batch full-leaf teas blended and packed by hand in Portland. Tasting room with flights.

Central Eastside$$

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The Tao of Tea 茶之道

Portland's tea OG, sourcing directly from origin since 1997.

Portland's original specialty teahouse since 1997. Owner travels to Asia to source directly. All teas in their original form, no artificial flavours.

Belmont$$

San Francisco

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Aroma Tea Shop

Free tastings, zero pretension, serious tea.

Free daily tastings and education on high-grade Chinese and Taiwanese teas since 2005. Two San Francisco locations.

Inner Richmond$

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Imperial Tea Court 龍鳳茶廰

The godfather of American gongfu, pouring since 1993.

Founded 1993 by Roy Fong, one of the first Americans to import premium Chinese loose-leaf tea. Traditional gongfu service inside the Ferry Building.

Embarcadero$$

Red Blossom Tea Company 紅花茶莊, San Francisco

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Red Blossom Tea Company 紅花茶莊

Three generations of direct-sourced Chinese tea from Chinatown.

Third-generation family-owned Chinatown shop importing direct from small producers in China and Taiwan. Guided tastings at the counter.

Chinatown$$

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Song Tea & Ceramics

Where rare teas meet handcrafted ceramics in a gallery you can drink from.

Gallery-like space pairing rare single-origin teas from Taiwan and China with handcrafted ceramics sourced directly from artisan producers.

Lower Pacific Heights$$$

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Vital Tea Leaf

Chinatown's most theatrical tea education, free of charge.

Chinatown shop where staff pour theatrical free tastings across a broad range of Chinese teas.

Chinatown$

Chengdu

Bu Zhi Chun Zhai (不知春斋)

A rock-tea outpost, tucked behind a courtyard wall.

Wuyi rock-tea house and tea-themed inn founded by 草木君, a Wuyi Mountain native who spent thirty years around the leaf before opening in Chengdu in 2021. Ground floor is a working rock-tea shop with cha xi. Nine themed rooms upstairs each riff on a Wuyi cultivar.

Wuhou (Hongpailou)$$

Gui Cu Tea House (归簇居茶馆)

Sichuan green tea, brewed by the person who chose it.

Small owner-run tea room known for carefully brewed Mengding Ganlu, served in a bluestone courtyard with bamboo and mung-bean cakes made in-house. A quiet counterpoint to Chengdu's louder social-tea tradition.

Wuhou (Tongzilin)$$

Kuanhe Tea House (宽和茶馆)

A Mengding house that reaches for Wuyi and Yunnan.

A themed tea house built around Mengding Mountain leaf, with a wider serious-tea program: wild Ganlu, Anxi tieguanyin, Yunnan puer, Taiwan Dongding oolong and Phoenix Dan Cong. Big by TEAKI standards, small by Chengdu ones.

Wuhou (Hongpailou)$$

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Mi Xun Teahouse (谧寻茶室)

Where a monastery kitchen meets a Wuyi kettle.

Michelin-starred tea room and Sichuan vegetarian kitchen inside The Temple House hotel, drawing on the food traditions of neighbouring Daci Monastery. The tea program runs a pared-back gongfu service with single-origin Wuyi Da Hong Pao and Yunnan puer alongside the kitchen.

Jinjiang$$$

Bangkok

Araksa Tea Room

Farm-to-cup teas from Chiang Mai's hill-tribe gardens.

Bangkok tea room serving Chiang Mai organic tea grown by Akha, Hmong and Lisu hill-tribe farmers, alongside tea-forward cuisine.

4.5Bang Rak$$$

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ChaiDim Tea House

Chinese and Thai loose leaf in Yaowarat Chinatown.

Loose-leaf tea shop in Bangkok's Yaowarat Chinatown, carrying Chinese teas alongside Thai teas from northern plantations.

4.7Yaowarat$$

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Double Dogs Tea Room

A Yaowarat shophouse run by a serious tea sommelier.

Specialty tea room on Yaowarat Road in Bangkok's Chinatown, run by a tea sommelier. Chinese, Taiwanese and Thai teas served gongfu-style in a quiet shophouse.

Yaowarat$$

Rome

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