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Originally Posted by ProfCrash
What store are you shopping at?
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A few more details about NBTea and Teahouse Emporium.
I think NBTea send teas all over the world. They are a good online shop, I have known them since 2004.
They have a very good selection of
sample collections that give you a good idea of different teas.
Teahouse Emporium is a bit different.
We went for a city break to Bath last half-term (the end of October).
Small but posh city. Proper English people and atmosphere. You feel like
you are in England
By pure chance we found a tea shop. It is a privately owned small shop, not a chain or something. Tim is a very nice English guy and his partner, Lenka, is from Czech Republic. It is important to mention where she is from because it was her idea of tea shop and about educating local people of benefits of a good tea
Prague was the first city where I have seen the real tea shop in 2006. Lots of big glass bottles with teas (hmm I think I have pictures, will upload them after I finish typing). She even imports some special cakes from Prague that are made of honey and don't stale. Don't ask me for details.
Anyway, that was the places where I learned about Mate and Pu-Erh. Tim spent some time with us explaining about the teas. Pu-Erh especially. Where he orders them in China etc.
Then we realised they had a small tea room downstairs.
One day we tried roasted mate, another day we tried pu-erh aged.
As you can see, they have online shop. However, I don't know whether they send abroad or not. It is not a perfect one. No samples available. They are not very responsive to emails, they advise to call them.
On the other hand, it does work.
So far, I have ordered 3 times from them online. No problems.
Code:
Red Rooibos
Roasted Mate
Mate Coconut Milk
Tokay Apricot
Grenadine
Lapsang Souchong
Pu-Erh Aged
Green Pu-Erh
Pu-Erh Wellness Guarana
Assam BPS CL Mangalam
Assam STGFOP1 S Harmutty
Keemun
English Breakfast
Predictably
I didn't like
Tokay Apricot - Green Sencha tea, white Snow Buds tea, marigold flowers and apricot
Grenadine - Sencha, Formosa gunpowder, EN Shi Yu Lu and Jade Rings green tea, Huang Xiao yellow tea, Shou Mei white tea, stones of pomegranate, pieces of apple and peach.
OH liked Tokay Apricot.
She also likes Green Pu-Erh. I am not sure about it yet.
I love all other teas from them. I might be imagining but I think they have better quality teas. I could be wrong though.
