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Hello everyone! I'm preparing for a little trip to Hong Kong in April, so I will have a few days to visit vendors from the forum in this city or the famous tea house/stores. Could you give me some recommendation for this sphere? Personal recommendations of gorgeous place for drink tea or just your lovely sights are also welcome)

You can look into Fukien Tea Co. if you like oolong/Tie Guan Yin.

DailyTX wrote: ↑

Thu Mar 20, 2025 7:14 pm

You can look into Fukien Tea Co. if you like oolong/Tie Guan Yin.

Thanks for recommendation !

DailyTX wrote: ↑

Thu Mar 20, 2025 7:14 pm

You can look into Fukien Tea Co. if you like oolong/Tie Guan Yin.

If you like death-roast oolong.

But it is good tea to pair with dim-sum or greasy food. In any case skip their lower price offerings and go for what is most expensive. Your stomach will thank you.

Not sure if I could post links here, but Marshaln has posted some recs.

https://x.com/HistorianZhang/status/170 ... bZI5Q&s=33

https://marshaln.com/2014/10/hong-kong-teashop-ecology/

Bok wrote: ↑

Fri Mar 21, 2025 4:03 am

DailyTX wrote: ↑

Thu Mar 20, 2025 7:14 pm

You can look into Fukien Tea Co. if you like oolong/Tie Guan Yin.

If you like death-roast oolong.

But it is good tea to pair with dim-sum or greasy food. In any case skip their lower price offerings and go for what is most expensive. Your stomach will thank you.

its not death-roast, its old-style oolong . Anyway, thanks for advice! Maybe you know any else tea houses in Honk Kong which is good for visit?

Koveee wrote: ↑

Fri Mar 21, 2025 10:47 am

Bok wrote: ↑

Fri Mar 21, 2025 4:03 am

DailyTX wrote: ↑

Thu Mar 20, 2025 7:14 pm

You can look into Fukien Tea Co. if you like oolong/Tie Guan Yin.

If you like death-roast oolong.

But it is good tea to pair with dim-sum or greasy food. In any case skip their lower price offerings and go for what is most expensive. Your stomach will thank you.

its not death-roast, its old-style oolong . Anyway, thanks for advice! Maybe you know any else tea houses in Honk Kong which is good for visit?

Fukien Tea Co definitely is roasted to death... they need to cover the mediocre quality of the leaves/blends of different leaf sources. You can tell by looking at the leaves after they are spent only: Only brown, no hints of green left. Also in the cup, only notes of chocolate = roast. The character of the underlying tea is not recognisable clearly (if any present to begin with). A goo quality roasted tea will still show hints of dark green on the spent tea leaves.

But it is all good, it is cheap stuff, no one would expect any gems.

A worse representative of this trad "down-and-dirty" teas is Pek Sin Choon in Singapore.

It’s an acquired taste lol associated with dim sum as @Bok has pointed out. Anything close to chocolate or dark roasted coffee taste certain can be call death roast. Good thing about tea shop from Asian is you can sample it before you buy.