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https://www.purplecane.my

According to what I can find, this teahouse was started in 1987 by Lim Hock Lam after he was exposed to Taiwanese tea-culture during his time as a student at the National Taiwan University in the early 1980s, and it started selling packaged tea in 1996.

I was made aware of this shop through finding a book on gongfu they published in 1999, A Passage to Chinese Tea. However, I have no experience with their teas. It looks like they ship overseas; has anyone tried their teas? If so, what did you think?

Purple Cane is a decent teashop. They have a chain of stores in departmental stores across Malaysia. They carry some pretty decent teaware and teas. I usually get my tea accessories, namely cloths and utensils from their store near my home.

Cheers!!

mbanu wrote: ↑

Mon Mar 29, 2021 8:05 pm

I was made aware of this shop through finding a book on gongfu they published in 1999, A Passage to Chinese Tea. However, I have no experience with their teas. It looks like they ship overseas; has anyone tried their teas? If so, what did you think?

I have helped editing, in a small way, the manuscript of that book
Their aim with that book back then was introducing Chinese tea to non-Chinese.

OCTO wrote: ↑

Mon Mar 29, 2021 8:29 pm

Purple Cane is a decent teashop. They have a chain of stores in departmental stores across Malaysia. They carry some pretty decent teaware and teas. I usually get my tea accessories, namely cloths and utensils from their store near my home.

Cheers!!

It's amazing how they grew from a shop in KL's Chinatown into a tea empire.

Which, however, caused some friction, i believe, as some would have preferred to keep Purple Cane less mass market oriented.

In the late 90's i have spent much time there