Specialty Teahouses in Hangzhou

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6 teahouses

Hangzhou

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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$$

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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$$

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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)$$$

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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)$$$

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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$$$