Beijing Tong Ren Tang Edit

It’s a very beautyfull store in the middle of chinatown, with very good teaware (gaiwans mostly). The tea catalog is quite good, with high quality teas, and they have a lot of chinese medicine too. The employee that attended me wasn’t very friendly but very polite.

A highly recomended place if you want true chinese-loose leaf tea and not the english traditional tea bags.

This is a very serious tea shop, on the edge of Chinatown, dealing only in high quality loose-leaf tea and other Chinese medicinal herbs etc. The staff speak Chinese and English and will be happy to show you the teas (about 20 types), all of which are loose leaf and high quality. They are a bit pricier than other places, but the quality is also much higher. The Yunnan Dian Hong is absolutely lovely, and the Fujian black also looks wonderful (but was too expensive for me to try…). As with most Chinese shops, they call black tea red tea, and Pu’erh tea black tea, so be warned. They also stock mostly greens and oolongs etc., as keeping with many Chinese shops. It’s a real experience shopping here, and just like going into a similar shop in China.