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Where Taiwan is increasingly famous for those high-mountain/light roast oolongs, Ding Dong represents its traditional, heavier roasting past. There are other Taiwanese staples too—oolongs like Eastern Beauty and Four Seasons, and black teas from Sun Moon Lake—but the Dong Dings will give you the best sense of Yoshan’s quality and, in a sense, a bridge that connects the history of oolong tea itself. Plus, you’ll get to sample the real-deal versions of the oolong teas so many boba shops are using in their drinks across town. They provide over 150 premium loose leaf teas at their specialty shop. Also offering traditional tea services, including the Gong Fu services, in their tea room.Like most journeys, opening and running a retail shop introduced a parade of pleasures, pains, challenges, triumphs and defeats. The experience tracks the philosophy behind Ku Cha House of Tea, which their very name honors.
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Since gaining early notoriety as the only vendor of Kopi Luwak (an Indonesian specialty made from civet-defecated coffee beans) in L.A., Funnel Mill has shown a knack for doing things a bit differently. There are a few sentences, if not full paragraphs—and in some cases a full page— of information about most of the coffees and teas on their menu. They take things seriously and their higher prices (by comparison to your run of the mill coffee/tea joints, at least) reflect this. Chado may be the best place in town to sit for a British-style cuppa while grappling with the uncomfortable colonial history of tea. If you are looking to try something outside the box, Chado also carries several teas from Bitaco, a producer of Indian-style black teas and blends from the mountains outside of Cali, Colombia.
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While Chinese grocery stores like 99 Ranch Market and an increasing number of other markets offer teas and tea supplies, the scale and variety is unmatched at Wing Hop Fung, which shares a lot in common with similar markets in mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. It is not a bad first stop when you are just starting to learn about the world of tea, with prices that are usually much more affordable. You can absolutely find better quality teas and teaware elsewhere in Los Angeles, but nowhere else offers the Chinese tea culture playground that Wing Hop Fung provides.
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Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays are ‘create’ nights and feature ‘intimate workshops that engage the senses.’ The workshops rotate weekly and include everything from flower arranging to nude figure drawing to immersive cosmic soundscape sessions. Both students of the revered Edosenke Tea School, Tea Masters’ Daigoro San and his wife, Kanako San, are the real deal. These Japan (Tokyo and Yokohama, respectively) natives treat each of their products—from lattes to soft serve to artisan crafted bowls of usucha matcha—with sincerity and love for their country’s contributions to tea culture. Apart from their popular café items, Tea Master has an incredible selection of loose-leaf and bagged green teas from Japan (sencha, gyokuro, hojicha, and genmaicha) and teaware (side handled kyusu pots and cups; matcha chawan bowls, bamboo chasen whisks, and chashaku scoops).
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The set up for Japanese loose-leaf genmaicha is all glass, including the glass pot with a tightly coiled metal strainer that prevents any of the tiny bits of leaf from winding up in your cup and compromising your brew. These details might seem over-the-top, but many in the tea world believe that if you don’t serve your tea with the care it deserves, you are essentially disrespecting the farmer who labored to grow it and the natural world where it was grown. Most importantly, not using a one-size-fits-all approach to serving tea is the difference between a delicious tea and what Lu Yu, the oldest tea scribe, described as the ‘swill of gutters’ way back in the 8th century. You don’t need to know any of this to cruise over to Pasadena and walk into Denong’s spacious tea room, where you can sample teas—Jeffery is particularly good at explaining some of the nuances for newbies and experienced drinkers alike. On the one hand, it’s a Downtown Los Angeles warehouse party for people who’ve grown tired of warehouse parties. It re-imagines the ‘idea of what nightlife can be by designing environments that lightly touch upon all the senses.’ On the other hand, it honors the traditional function of a tea house as a place to gather and spend some time in thought, creative expression, or conversation.
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When a boba shop doesn’t use this approach—as is the case with Pot of Cha, an unassuming gem nestled into a USC-adjacent strip mall on Figueroa—it makes all the difference. Their Taiwan-sourced teas (Red Ruby Black Tea, Full Roast/Tieguanyin Oolong, Golden Phoenix High Mountain) taste like real quality teas, even without sweetener, and whether you order them with or without milk, fresh milk, or my preferred, salty cheese. Near the corner of Spring and 6th Streets in the heart of Downtown, Farah A. Hagar has created arguably the best place for chai and coffee lovers to unite in the city.
On a recent visit to the tasting room, on an unassuming corner of Long Beach Boulevard where the Blue Line slides by every few minutes, Terrance offered samples straight out of the tap of batches he’d personally sampled earlier for quality control. Connecting the hose to a silo of their specialty silver needle kombucha—made with delicate silver needle white tea—Terrance proceeded to blow my mind. If Pot of Cha is the best all-around, Fluffy Head is the spot for cheese-tea-topping, and Xing Fu Tang boasts the best tapioca balls in town, Chicha San Chen is the place to go for the highest-quality tea used in boba drinks. In the spring of 2021, when the boba shortage hit, people lost their marbles over the absence of the little tapioca delights in their drinks. By the time the global supply chain issues were resolved, tea heads had grown to appreciate the boba balls themselves a bit more.
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Los Angeles and the fermented tea probiotic beverage kombucha are well-acquainted. But we are falling in love with it—and like global football, tea is here to stay in Los Angeles. Even as more broad-range stores shutter and some classics get lost (R.I.P. the beloved Korean tearoom Hwa Sun Ji on Wilshire), new specialized ones open. And when all of that toil produces something heart-stirring and pleasing, we do not forget to embrace it, to treasure it. Doing so honors all of those difficult investments of time, money and mental energy that nurtured the flowering of the sweet. Private Dining and Special EventsFor personalized private dining and event menus, please contact UKA at
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The tea itself is all-you-can-drink and consists of four hot and four cold teas (approximately half are herbal/tisane infusions). Among the hot options during Summer 2022 are a Chinese white tea from Yunnan and a Second-flush Darjeeling from the all-women owned Jungpana garden. A favorite among the cold teas was a hearty gunpowder green tea mixed with mint that was popularized in Northern Africa and is often called Moroccan Mint Tea.
Like Imen at Tea Habitat, Tea Master always has a fresh stock of new green teas (shincha) in spring and early summer that will astonish even those who are new to tea. Like Sushi Gen across the parking lot in Honda Plaza, it would be hard to find better traditional options outside of Japan. Visit Tea Master before or after you have the best sushi in Los Angeles and continue to stay stocked at home by ordering teas online. This kombucha injected the essence of an exquisitely well-brewed white tea into a burst of lightly bubbly soothing refreshment cool enough to chill out the most brutal of Southern California summer days. Fine Feathers offers a solid regular flavor roster—from lemongrass oolong to sencha guyasa to jasmine peony—as well as seasonal and rotating flavors (Terrance told me he was dreaming up a dragon needle which would combine dragon fruit and white needle).
The result is a drink that offers the freshness of the best fruit juices with the grounded buzz of a solid oolong. It might be the best non-alcoholic beverage to have at a daytime meal in Los Angeles. Among the oldest and longest-running shops selling loose-leaf tea in Los Angeles (since opening in Chinatown in 1985), Wing Hop Fung is a Southern California institution. Offering expertise on TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine) herbs, the first-time visitor to the large Santa Anita location is met with a collection of teas and tisanes vast enough to overwhelm the mind and the senses.
She launched Little Fluffy Head Café in Downtown LA in August 2017 and soon found herself breaking down why Americans were trepidatious about drinking cheese to Eater. Funnel Mill’s approach is a welcome contrast to the too-common experience of ordering tea at a coffee place and being handed a paper cup, with a sad little string hanging over the side, and having to endure a murky brew that, at best, tastes like flavored water. Striking that elusive sweet spot of a place that offers both good tea and good coffee, Funnel Mill feels like a rip in the caffeinated beverage universe.
On the other hand, Jin does offer part-tea jugs of their oolong teas in 96 oz boxes too, which is a lot harder to make at home. The Boiling Pot Group decided to tackle the other famous cauldron of boiling water from East Asia when they opened Jin Tea next to their Boiling Point Concept store in Pasadena. Like many of the better boba shops around town, Jin specializes in Taiwanese teas—namely oolongs—taking extra steps to ensure all of their products are certified CERES, a German organic certification (something few other boba places do).
Fine Feathers offer cups off the tap to go, growlers, glass bottles, or cans, and might be producing alcoholic versions of their excellent kombuchas in the near future. Best of all, Fine Feathers offers all the fixings to make your own kombucha including SCOOBYS, full-blown starter kits, and brewing workshops—making it a kind of community hub for seasoned and newbie brewers alike. Since 2012, Fine Feathers has been a staple of the Southern California craft kombucha scene.
An organic silver needle white tea from Fujian Province in China is priced on the high end at $700 a pound, with the lowest of four grades of Chinese longjing green tea listed at $40 per pound. There are enough kinds of teaware alone—from serving tables to gaiwans to scoops to cups—to spend an afternoon exploring. Ku Cha House of Tea opened its second Denver tea shop in 2021 in Downtown Denver, inside the landmark of Denver Pavilions Mall. Today, the colorful, bright shop sells premium whole-leaf teas, to-go beverages including boba and matcha drinks, and tea accessories to the many locals and tourists who frequent Downtown Denver every year. If you dig having cold brew on deck, especially in these hot months, let me also remind you that you can easily buy higher quality teas from the other vendors on this list, add around 5-10 grams per liter of water into a glass tumbler and put it in the fridge overnight. The end result will easily surpass Jin and you won’t have to drink it out of a plastic container.
There is a long display where pu‘erh cakes are presented like dinner plates. There are chests with porcelain and clay tea sets stacked like luggage beneath displays of giant, ornamental Yixing teapot reproductions. There are dozens of loose-leaf tea bins arranged by category and grade.
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