/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>7210877
>teapots
>pottery
>puerh cakes
Everything in this picture is great.

Repostin' pic from old thread while we're at posting tea house pictures.

>>7200694
>>7200706
I'm not 100% against teavana bars. Like starbuck it's more industrial that an actual tea house and maybe not that high quality in the shipping and processing but at least they offer a great choice of teas and a lot of cultivars that aren't even half bad. The simple fact that you can enter a franchised tea bar and get some tie guan yin (rebranded monkey picked but whatever) is awesome. I don't even expect that from a local tea house (it's already great when I sea that they have lapsang souchong). Then of course it's a franchised shit with over priced tea. I won't buy from them for my personal tea (because lower quality), and I won't go there everyday (because too expensive). But interesting anyway, they still have cultivar that you can't find in any tea house.


Apart from teavana, tea (as in great tea, real good tea) isn't really that popular yet. And it's hard to find a tea house that doesn't serve Lipton shit or maybe like 3-4 teas. The best tea house I ever went was in a zoo in Belgium… Because there is a China themed park and they built a zen garden with a tea house from real Chinese plan and they wanted to be as realistic as possible. Then again, it's over priced, because tourist shit. I paid 7€ for my 1 person Pu-erh teapot, and only enough water for 2 brews. Yet that's still the only place I know where I got a yixing (well maybe a classic earth but great anyway) teapot with already-washed pu-erh tea and hot water aside. And they didn't asked if I wanted sugar, like it never even was an option. It was fucking great. I wish I could go back there some day, but it's 300km away from where I live and in a fucking Zoo. Pic related, that's the tea house.

Then there is this teahouse in NYC. (tea drunk) I never went in US, but they're pretty active on the internet and upload pictures of tea from time to time. Looks fucking great.