The Best Tea House Co., Ltd

It's the Taiwanese in me, but I do love some good (and sadly, expensive) tea. I've walked past the Best Tea House in Lai Chi Kok before, and the smell of the tea wafting onto the street was just heavenly. However, today was the first time I had a chance to go in and have a look.

As you can imagine, the interior is very refined-traditional, with at least a couple of tea stations set up for tea drinking/tasting. You can join a tea workshop, which includes tea appreciation and sampling a few types of tea for HKD500.

I've done a tea workshop before, and I highly recommend it for everyone (even if it's not at this particular establishment). You won't be able to sample such lovely tea otherwise. The shop has a wide selection of Pu'er tea, as can be expected.

They were painting the sidewalk railings red today.

Close up of the door. Love these carvings.

The foyer. I wasn't allowed to take pictures inside the shop, but there were a few cute displays in the foyer, anyway.

Clay teapots!! I love these!

That's a cake of Pu'er tea on the right.



Cakes of Pu'er tea. I don't know if these are the cheap ones or the expensive ones since I'm ignorant.

You can find out more about the Best Tea House at their Web site. Sorry, no English, though.

The Lai Chi Kok branch is on Cheung Shun Street. Exit A from the Lai Chi Kok MTR Station and turn left and then another left to Cheung Shun Street. They also have a shop in the Chung King Express Mall in Tsim Sha Tsui, in Taikoo Shing at Cityplaza II and, this really surprised me, in the Jumbo Floating Restaurant(!) in Aberdeen.

And, they have an outlet in Canada! I never saw it while I was living there, but then, I don't cruise strip malls.