You are most welcome. Alas, I haven't been to Taipei, or Wenshan - so can't
help you there I am afraid.

Cheers
Mal
Oz


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Mal,

Thank you for all your advice!! These are beautiful shops. I will
definately be visiting the Ki Chan tea co, it looks amazing!

If anyone else also has more advice about other shops that might cater
to an intermediate or advanced audience as well, i'm going with a
friend who knows what she's looking for and speaks chinese, (but has
never been to HK.) I'd like to impress her.

We may also be taking a side trip to Taipei, to Wenshan. Have you
been?


Sina


On Apr 12, 4:41 am, "Mal from Oz" wrote:
Tea Shops That I'd visit again in HK..

'Best Tea House', Peking Road, Tsim Sha Tsui. Very friendly, helpful and
lots of patience with newbies, great selection of tea and they insist you
sample before you buy. This was the first tea shop I had ever visited
and I
basically had NFI what I was asking for or looking at. Staff however
still
made me very welcome and taught me a lot. Plan to spend at least an hour
per
visit.http://www.besttea.com.hk/ There's a restroom next door in the pub
if you need it !

"Lam Kie Yuen Tea" Co, G/F., 105-107 Bonham Strand E., Sheung Wan, Hong
Kong. Stephanie is again very helpful, doesn't see many tourists at all
as
her store is a little off the tourist tracks. I found her prices very
reasonable. A '93 cake I bought from Stephanie was half of what Yue Hwa
wanted for the same cake.
Large selection of Pu'er. www.lkytea.com

Ki Chan Tea Co, 174 Johnston Road, Wanchai. Another little shop off the
regular tourist tracks. Appeared to have more green, oolong etc rather
than
pu'er. But I didn't ask - so he may have some out the
back.www.kichantea.com

I also found the Shop in the Tea Museum in Hong Kong park to have a small
selection of good oolongs etc. A bit pricy I thought.

Yue Hwa department store at 301-309 Nathan Road, Kowloon (get off MTR at
Jordan) has a very big selection of teas and tea ware. Their prices
ranged
from dirt cheap to 'oh my god!'. I don't speak Cantonese so I personally
found dealing with them difficult. However the store manager's English
was a
little better and he did go out of his way to show me what he had to
offer.

The most eye-boggling store for pu'er for me was 'Sunsing' on 32nd Floor
of
Soundwill Plaza, Causeway Bay. Extensive vintage pu'er. I even saw one
cake
in a glass case from 1900. The wife clubbed me with her handbag before I
had a chance to find out the price of that one. An observation on this
shop
w.r.t yixing ware - lots of pots all looking identical - not cheap. Don't
let this put you off this store though. He also has a lot of tea at
affordable prices. I'd already spent my budget by then (and then some).

Hope this helps. I imagine others from this group will also have some
recommendations.

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Cheers
Mal
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I'll be tea shopping in Hong Kong in early May. Recommendations for
where to buy any (top grades) of teas welcome. Thanks!!

White tea:
Green Tea:
Chinese Oolong:
Taiwanese Oolong:
Pu-erh?

Thanks!