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Truly unique.

Hand-picked tea leaves, which are gently steamed, dried, or carefully roasted in small batches, using time-honored Chinese techniques that preserve the integrity and essence of the tea leaf.

Most of our teas are grown in China’s Fujian Province, an area renowned for tea for over 1,000 years. Production for all of our tea and herbals is overseen by the owner, Shang.

Our only shop in the world is located in Kansas City, Missouri, and our speciality is loose leaf white tea—the least processed variety of tea available. We also make a selection of loose leaf green tea, red teas (very similar to black tea), wu-long (oolong) teas, rare batch teas, and herbal tisanes.

High mountain grown for the finest quality.

 

Some of our Featured

Loose Leaf Teas

 
 
White Peony King
from $8.00

2 oz (57g) for $25.00, makes on average 60+ cups

Ingredients: Organic Loose Leaf White Tea Leaves
Name: White Peony King (Bai Mu Dan) 白牡丹
Cultivar:
Da Bai, Da Hao

  • Early steepings are laced with sweet honey clover notes, and a slight earthiness comes forward in later steepings.

  • Named after the peony aroma that emanates from the tea leaves, this tea retains a peony aroma while hot.

  • Has a refreshing, delicate mouthfeel.

Smooth and mellow, White Peony King is delicately crafted at the peak of the Tai Mu Mountain from the top bud and 2-3 leaves. It won the 2007 Gold Prize in Fujian Province's White Tea Contest, making it the #1 White Peony in the region.

Special Reserve Green Tea
from $8.00

2 oz (57g) for $25.00, makes on average 60+ cups

Ingredients: Organic Loose Leaf Green Tea Leaves
Name: Special Reserve Green Tea 高山绿茶
Cultivar: Mei Zhan and Huang Dan



This Special Reserve Green Tea is wild harvested from an abandoned tea farm in the southern Fujian Mountains, near the farm of Shang's friend. Known for its especially rich ecosystem, this region is also the same area that yields the porcelain used in our porcelain teaware. Harvested from the elegant Mei Zhan cultivar, which is normally used to make the Oriental Beauty Wu-Long Tea, Shang applied our green tea processing style with an outstanding result. This green tea is crisp, refreshing and smooth-bodied with a vegetal quality and buttery undertone. What really sets our Special Reserve Green Tea apart from other green teas is its clean finish and lingering sweetness with no bitterness or astringency.

  • Aroma of parsley and cut grass.

  • Opulent green kale flavor with meyer lemon high note.

  • Buttery mouthfeel.

Silver Needle Peony
from $25.00

1 oz (29g) for $25.00, makes 30+ cups

Ingredients: Organic Loose Leaf White Tea Leaves
Name: Silver Needle Peony (Yinzhen Mudan)
Cultivar: Da Bai, Da Hao

Tender buds from Da Bai and Da Hao cultivars are grown at the top of Tai Mu Mountain. The top leaf of the plant is hand picked. After being carefully harvested, the buds and leaves are air-dried in the fresh mountain sunshine, creating a rounded and mellow cup of super high grade white tea.

Honeysuckle White Tea
from $9.00

2 oz (57g) for $30.00, makes on average 60+ cups

Ingredients: Organic Loose Leaf White Tea leaves, Wild Honeysuckle Flowers
Name: Honeysuckle White Tea (Jin Yin Hua Bai Cha) 本草白茶
Cultivar: Da Bai, Da Hao

Smooth and soothing, this tea creation is a blend of our White Peony King and Wild Honeysuckle Flowers. Highly prized for its medicinal value, honeysuckle is used medicinally in China and other cultures to cool the body, alleviate headaches, soothe sore throats, and help with inflammation.

  • Deep earthy sweetness.

  • Distinctively supple mouth-feel.

Jasmine Pearl White Tea
$25.00

2 oz (57g) for $25.00, makes 60+ cups on average

Ingredients: 100% Organic Tea Leaves, Jasmine flowers
Name: Jasmine Pearl White Tea 茉莉
Cultivar: Da Bai and Da Hao

The Jasmine Pearl White Tea is made from tea plants grown in the Fujian Province of China. The plants used to make this tea are from the Fuding Da Bai and Da Hao White Tea plants. The leaves from these plants are tightly rolled and infused three times with jasmine flowers. 

Oriental Beauty Wu-Long
from $9.00

2 oz (57g) for $35.00, makes 60+ cups

Ingredients: Organic Tea Leaves
Name: Oriental Beauty Wu-Long 美人茶
Cultivar: Jin Xuan and Qing Xin

Our Oriental Beauty Wu-Long was harvested in June of 2022 in the southern Fujian Mountains--in the same area where our Special Reserve Green Tea and our Aged Yellow Tea come from. The Oriental Beauty Wu-Long is made from the Jin Xuan and Qing Xin cultivars, which are over thirty years old and grow at an elevation of over 2100 feet in the mountains of Dehua. The Oriental Beauty Wu-Long is elegant and smooth with a natural floral aroma and flavor, complemented with inherent sweet undertones.

 

Brew the ideal cup.

How you brew your tea makes a difference. We offer carefully curated teaware to provide you with a high quality cup of tea.