14 best cafés and tea rooms for green tea in Tokyo
Here are the capital’s best cafés and tea rooms for enjoying authentic Japanese green tea, matcha, hojicha and more. Tea is an art form in Japan. There’s often a formality…
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A Tea Lover’s Adventure: Tour The Best Tea Houses In Taiwan
From the slopes of Alishan to tea farms of Hualien and Taitung, fantastic oolong, Pu’er, and Japanese teas can be found throughout Taiwan. Traveling tea lovers probably already know that…
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Japanese tea house for inside your home? Tokyo company wants to offer micro ‘chashitsu’ overseas
In a perfect world, we’d all have our own secluded teahouse, a cabin in the middle of a bamboo grove where we could sip a bowl of freshly brewed matcha while…
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Turning over a new leaf – how an innovative tea set themed idea led to a brew-tiful NI business
How an innovative themed tea set idea led to brew-tiful NI business If there’s one thing that unites people across these shores, it’s our love of tea. In fact, so great…
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An Assam Startup offers ‘ghost pepper’ and gold in a cup of tea
An Assam-based startup offers “ghost pepper” and “gold” tea among its 40 or so specialty blends because it combines the 24-carat edible golden metal with the world’s hottest chilli, “bhoot…
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DavidsTea returns to Boston with pop-up shop
DavidsTea quietly opened a pop-up shop earlier this month above the Lululemon in the Back Bay. The limited-time pop-up marks the tea brand’s first return to the U.S. market since the pandemic…
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Tea-infused cocktails are trending on TikTok, here are 8 to try
Last summer may have witnessed the rise in hard tea – but this summer, according to TikTok, fresh tea steals the show as the key ingredient in homemade cocktails. Whether you’ve been…
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Kenya keen on exporting black tea to Chinese market
Kenya is eager to commence the sale of black tea in China amid growing demand for the product in the vast Chinese market. This intention was made clear recently by…
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Tea chain Start-up Chaayos Raises $53M in Latest Round of Funding
Tea cafe chain startup Chaayos will use the fresh capital for tech enhancement, hiring, and store expansion. Tea shop chain start-up company, Chaayos just came out to announce that the…
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Coca-Cola is discontinuing Honest Tea
First Coca-Cola cut Tab, Odwalla and Zico coconut water. Now, Honest Tea is getting axed. “The Honest teas product line will be phased out of The Coca-Cola Company’s beverage portfolio at the end of…
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Coca-Cola Brings Out Its First Herbal Tea in Chinese Mainland
Coca-Cola, the world’s biggest soft drinks maker, has launched its first herbal tea drink in the Chinese mainland. Made with selfheal, the tea is produced in Hong Kong by HealthWorks and sells…
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Why Pakistanis are balking at Ahsan Iqbal’s suggestion of austeri-tea
Like most cultural norms in Pakistan, the romance with tea begins in our colonial past. Last week, Federal Minister for Planning and Development Ahsan Iqbal stirred up a storm in a…
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Long Island Iced Tea
Globally renowned cocktails such as martini, mojito or margarita are the drink versions of comfort foods and we cannot help but wonder about their history and the folktales hinting at…
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Why this Chinese tea costs more than $184,000 per kilogram
A sumptuous three-course afternoon tea at Glassbelly Tea Lab, a fine-dining restaurant in Hong Kong, has just begun. But neither the abalone nor the A4 Wagyu ribeye are the stars of…
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Price cuts brew success for milk tea brands
This summer, the growing tribe of milk tea lovers in China will likely find glad tidings as prominent brands such as Heytea and Nayuki announced they had slashed the prices…
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Asian American motherhood inspires canned milk tea company
Local moms create a heritage brand with Twrl Milk Tea Local moms Olivia Chen and Pauline Ang launched Twrl Milk Tea, a canned, plant-based pea milk tea, in 2021. Both…
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Forget whisky and wine, tea pairings are the latest trend in fine dining! Here’s a beginner’s guide
Sommeliers in restaurants, as we all know, usually recommend the right whisky or wine to drink with a dish. The right pairing can summon amazing flavours, just as the wrong…
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What do you like to eat with your cup of tea?
A beginner’s guide to understanding tea and food pairing from a Dubai-based tea expert Dubai: There is more to tea than brewing it right. For example, sweet or savoury snacks…
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Toronto’s new design and bubble tea cafe hopes to build a bridge between artists in Asia to Canada. Meet Benkei Hime
Knowing the toll the pandemic has taken people worldwide, Jason Wang was inspired to create a “unique and audacious” experience for people to look forward to when restrictions eased. And…
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Exotic tea beers and fruit ales
March is ON and American craft brewers are addressing things with a full slate of new beer offerings you’re gonna want to chase down. A Fan Favorite Returns (Escondido, CA) –…
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