CULTURE & EASTEN AESTHETICS

Chinese Tea Ceremony Experience

DURATION

GROUP

Price

2.5-3 HOURS

Flexible

From $120/ person

II China has been drinking tea for 6,000 years — but not every cup is the same. Today you’ll taste three completely different teas, and discover how an entire worldview fits inside a single leaf.

Experience Flow

Entering the Tea Space · Awakening the Senses

A private tea room. Before anything begins, you take in the fragrance, the tea ware, the atmosphere. Let the space settle you.

The Full Tea Ceremony

Your tea master performs a complete Gongfu tea ceremony — warming the pot, rinsing the leaves, brewing, pouring. At one point, you step in and do part of it yourself. Not just watching. Actually doing.

Tasting & Comparison

Three teas, three completely different characters. For each one, your master walks you through the origin, how it was made, what to smell, what to taste. By the end, you’ll notice things in a cup of tea you never noticed before.

Tea as a Way of Life

Your guide shows you how to recreate today’s ceremony at home — simply, without special equipment. You leave with a small packet of one of the teas you tasted today.

What’s included / Resources

Private Tea Room

Brew it yourself

Tea Snacks

Take-Home Tea Gift

  Optional photographer 

From $120/ person

Sit down, slow down, brew a cup of tea

In China, making tea is never just about the drink. It’s about how you hold a tiny cup with both hands, how the water sounds as it hits the leaves, and the quiet that settles in before anyone says a word. In this experience, you’ll learn to brew tea yourself — the right temperature, the right timing, the right pour — and then actually drink what you made, alongside some traditional snacks that have been paired with tea for centuries.

The session takes place in a private tearoom with traditional Chinese décor — wooden furniture, ceramic ware, soft natural light. You’ll smell the tea before you taste it, and somewhere between the two, everything gets a little quieter.

What's included

  • Traditional snacks

  • Professional English-speaking tour guide
  • Your own private tea setting.