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The Best Places to Buy Tea in Beijing

Albeit drinking in customary tea houses is to a greater extent a curiosity in Beijing nowadays, tea culture in the city is still perfectly healthy. From cabbies to road sellers most local people will keep a carafe of tea nearby other people all through the working day.

Whilst you have the capacity to get a decent assortment of teas at most general stores crosswise over Beijing, for sightseers searching at the best cost and determination, and also a more valid tea purchasing knowledge, the accompanying tea retailers come very prescribed.


Maliandao Tea Market

Best known as Tea Street this clamoring accumulation of tea stores is, whilst not a road, the tea focal point of Beijing.

A progression of roads and multi-story market structures house near to 1,000 tea merchants supplying local people and traveler with teas from every one of the four edges of China. It offers guests an understanding into China's tea society and its storied past and is the nearest thing in China, or whatever other nation so far as that is concerned, to a tea-consumer's paradise.

Whilst the majority of the merchants don't comprehend or communicate in English they are for the most part obliging and upbeat to offer tastings and tests to potential clients. As being what is indicated it is best to visit Tea Street with a Chinese talking aide or an interpreted rundown of the teas you are after. The merchants are accustomed to offering teas wholesale however you can at present get little amounts at a reasonable cost.

It is at Maliandao that you will discover a portion of the best teas from China's most celebrated tea developing districts. Two or three must tries, whether purchasing or essentially examining are:

Iron Goddess (Tieguanyin 铁观音) from southern Fujian territory; request a mixed bag of Iron Goddess developed under peach trees that give it a peachy smell

Mythical serpent Well (Longjing 龙井) is a vastly improved known, more routine Chinese green tea beginning in Zhejiang territory

Dahongpao (大红袍) is a more extravagant, premium-quality oolong tea become on the inclines of the popular Wuyi mountain

Most stores in Maliandao will stock these teas so search at the best mixed bag and cost.

Whether you are a prepared tea consumer searching for something extraordinary or looking for a credible, sensibly evaluated Chinese tea to take home as a gift, Maliandao is the spot to purchase tea in Beijing. Read more

Address: 11 Maliandao Street, Guang'anmenwai, Xuanwu District (宣武区马连道路11号)

Metro: 150m south of Beijing West Railway Station (Line 9)

Yandai Xiejie

The appreciation for Yandai Xiejie is as much in the experience as the tea on offer. Situated inside of the system of hutongs encompassing Houhai Lake, it offers an opportunity to wander the lanes of old Beijing looking for China's most mainstream beverage.

Whilst shops along this hutong offer all way of keepsakes, there are a few tea shops stocking a decent scope of items and also tea pots, mugs and different extras. The majority of the tea shops along Yandai Street will offer expansive blocks of tea and in addition free leaf tea from jugs (permitting you to pick precisely the amount you need).

Despite the fact that stores will once in a while have tests to give out, you by and large need to depend on smell and appearance to choose a tea you need. In the event that you don't have room schedule-wise or slant to visit a devoted tea showcase then Yandai Xiejie is an incredible spot to purchase tea whilst investigating one of Beijing's most exuberant hutongs.

Address: Yandai Byway, Xicheng District (烟袋斜街西城区烟袋斜街)

Metro: Entrance is found 100m north of Shichahai Station (Line 8)

Yashow Market

Despite the fact that Yashow Market is principally an attire market, it offers practically anything a guest to Beijing would need, including a decent choice of teas and tea product. Situated at the south end of Sanlitun Village, Yashow Market's area and English talking merchants make it an advantageous choice for sightseers on a tight time scale.

Covered up in the back corner of the fourth floor guests will locate various tea slows down offering free leaf teas from extensive glass containers. In spite of the fact that the determination is more constrained than committed tea showcases, the items on offer are of a better than average quality and the entire procedure is much simpler than purchasing from a business sector coddling local people.

On the off chance that you have gone to one of Beijing's tea houses and needed to attempt your hand at a customary tea service, you can discover all the tea function hardware you require at Yashow at an extremely sensible cost. What you pay is constantly debatable in this way, as with any merchandise you plan to buy there, never settle at the starting cost and deal hard.

Address: Yaxiu Fuzhuang Shichang, 58 Gongrentibeilu, Sanlitun (三里屯雅秀服装市场,工体北路58号)

Metro: 500m west of Tuanjiehu Station (Line 10)

Sanyuanli Market

Inside Sanyuanli Market, found 1km north of Sanlitun Village in the east of the city, there are a few tea slows down that stock a mixed bag of green, oolong and dark teas from crosswise over China, and some more bizarre bloom teas. Since the business sector panders to countless living in Beijing, the dealers talk enough English to help you discover the tea you need and depend on return business, so for the most part charge a reasonable cost.

The business sector is in close nearness to various famous Beijing inns and offers better quality tea at a lower cost than neighborhood general stores or trinket shops. Comparative markets are scattered all through the city and, whilst most will offer a comparable, if not bigger, determination of teas, the way that venders at Sanyuanli communicate in English make it a decent alternative for guests.

Address: Sanyuanli Caishich
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