Pre-Qingming
Pressed flatLow bitterness
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Green · Houkeng village, Taiping, Anhui
Taiping Houkui
Monkey King tea · giant flat leaves
4.6 · 11 reviews
CAD 26.00$
Enormous flat jade leaves pressed into ribbons — the mildest, easiest-drinking green tea we sell.
Corn silkOrchidSteamed greensGentle mineral
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From CAD 26.00$ to CAD 46.00$
✓ Free shipping over CAD 79.00$
✓ Dispatched within 48 hours
✓ Sealed in a light-proof tin
Houkui leaves are the largest in Chinese tea, sometimes 15 cm long, and they are pressed flat between cloth and iron plates until they look like little green blades. Because the leaf is mature, the tea is extraordinarily low in bitterness and almost impossible to over-brew.
It tastes of fresh corn silk, orchid and a soft orchid-like sweetness, with a faint minerality from the granite soil. A wonderful introduction — and a striking thing to put in a glass.
- Gaiwan
- 4 g · 150 ml · 80–85 °C · 60 s, then +20 s · 4 infusions
- Western
- 2 g per 250 ml · 85 °C · 2–3 min
- Vessel
- Tall glass; the leaf is the show
We dispatch within 48 hours of your order, from our warehouse in China, with tracking on every parcel.
We do not quote a delivery date. Once a parcel leaves us it is carried by an international courier and cleared by customs in your country, and a date we cannot control is a date we will not promise. The tracking number, which you get when the label is created, shows every scan to your door.
Shipping is complimentary on orders over CAD 79.00$; below that a flat CAD 9.50$ applies. HST (13%) is calculated at checkout. Duties and import taxes are the recipient's responsibility.
Unopened tins can be returned within 30 days for a full refund. If a tea is not to your taste, tell us — we would rather send you something you like than keep the money.
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