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Green Tea

Green tea is made from the same tea plant as black tea (camellia sinensis), but it is treated much more delicately during harvesting and specially processed in order to prevent the leaves from turning black. It was the preferred type of tea in Britain during the 18th century and remains the most popular tea in many parts of Asia.

Bancha

Bancha

This intense golden-yellow bancha has a stronger taste than sencha and a delicate, fresh, straw-like fragrance.

Chun Mee

Chun Mee

A very popular Chinese green tea with a fresh, grassy flavour and gentle tart edge. This is the tea you are most likely to encounter in the streets of Hong Kong, and it is a great all round Chinese green. Chun Mee was originally produced in the Chinese Jiangxi province but is now produced throughout China and Taiwan (where this particular Formosa variety comes from).

Ding Gu Da Fang

Ding Gu Da Fang

A famous intense green tea from China, Ding Gu Da Fang has an incredibly luscious crisp greens and cheastnut-like taste. Its grassy bouquet hints of fresh cut flowers and toasted brioche.

Dragon Well

Dragon Well

Dragon well is a renowned green tea with distinguishing broad and flat leaves. With its gentle sweet fragrance, delicate, clean, chestnut-like taste and cloudless jade green colour, it is an extraordinary and unique green tea.

Genmaicha

Genmaicha

Flavours of warm roasted rice abound in this traditional Japanese brown rice tea. The combination of both popped and roasted rice together with a high quality bancha green tea creates a superior and soothing brew. The roasted rice yields a slight caramelised after-taste which adds a soft sweet finish to this tea.

Gunpowder

Gunpowder

Each green tea leaf in Gunpowder tea is rolled into a small tight pellet that has a silky sheen when fresh. It has an clean sharp taste and is a very refreshing green tea. Mint or other herbs are often added to complement the flavour (it is simply delicious with Moroccan mint added).

Sencha Fuji

Sencha Fuji

This is a very high quality large leaf Japanese sencha. It has a wonderful crystalline green colour and a superb flavour that eclipses those of other green teas.

White Monkey

White Monkey

Harvested from the Tai-Mi mountain in the Fujian province of China, this green tea has a large number of white tips. The fine white downy hairs on these curved and tangled leaves give the tea its unusual name. It is a superb and delicate green tea with the soft texture of white teas and a grassy and slightly sweet taste.

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