Business Name: East East Tea Arts

Type of Business: I currently offer two culinary tea experiences:

1. My gong fu tea tasting sessions are offered by reservation only and limited to groups of six or fewer people.  I demonstrate the gongful style of preparing and serving tea, while providing historical background about tea and its processing.  A tasting session includes eight different teas, two within each of the four major categories of tea (white, green, oolong, red).  The tea samples are selected to give a comparative overview not only between the different types of tea, but of the variation of flavor within a single category, as well.  Typical Asian tea snacks are served along with the tea and participants may choose to purchase a small gong fu serving set to take home with them.  The tea tasting sessions are open to the general public, but take place at my B&B, Harbour Lights Guest House, located in North Lake, PEI.
2. I also offer a special culinary tea dinner package for overnight guests to my B&B.  My husband and I have developed a series of three-to four-course dinners that highlight terroir teas as a flavouring ingredient in several of the meal courses.  We also provide suggestions for tea pairings to accompany the dinner.  

Year Founded: 2008

Location: 6434 Northside Rd., North Lake, PE.  Please note:  Our mailing address is different from our physical location.  Mailing address is:  6434 Northside Rd., RR 2, Elmira, PE C0A 1K0, Canada.

Phone: (902) 357-2127 or (866) 687-9949 [toll-free]

Website: www.east-east.ca

What is Unique About Your Business?: The focus of my business is on the culinary and meditative uses of tea, and I hope to encourage connoisseurship in terroir teas.

What Are Your Best-Selling Teas?: Phoenix Jasmine Pearl Tea, Wenshan Baozhong, and Gyokuro .

Do You Carry Organic Teas?: We carry some teas that are certified organic, as well as others that are organic but not certified.

Do You Carry Fair-Trade Teas?: Again, some are, but not all.  Most of the teas I carry come from small cooperative farms.

Where Are Your Teas Grown?: Mainland China, Taiwan, and Japan.

Why Do Your Loyal Customers Keep Coming Back?: East East Tea Arts offer high quality, single estate, terroir teas and provides an unusual cultural experience in a beautiful, rural setting.

Where Can Your Teas be Purchased?: I am not a tea retailer.  I provide a tea drinking and tea culinary experience in a unique setting.

Is There Anything Else You’d Like to Tell Us About Your Business or Teas?: In the late 1990s and early 2000, I spent time living and working in China.  A close Chinese friend and colleague, who happened to be a tea master, introduced me to the amazing world of tea.  She took me to visit small tea cooperatives and brought me with her on buying trips to the Beijing tea market that boasts hundreds of tea dealers and tea accoutrements retailers.  My love of tea and the experience of gong fu style tea developed out of those encounters.

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Business Name: Tealet

Type of Business: Tea Retailer, Tea Wholesaler

Year Founded: 2012

Location: Honolulu, Hawaii

Phone: (808) 927-8330

Website: www.Tealet.com

What is Unique About Your Business?: Tealet is a retail and wholesale marketplace that connects independent tea growers to tea lovers. Tea growers build their brands through rich storytelling.

What Are Your Best-Selling Teas?: Mauna Kea Sweet Roast Green Tea, Kyoto Obubu Tea Plantations Kabuse Sencha, Doke Rolling Thunder, Mountain Tea Lishan, and Spring.

Do You Carry Organic Teas?: Yes.

Where Are Your Teas Grown?: Hawaii, Japan, China, Taiwan, Korea, Indonesia, India, Sri Lanka, and Vietnam.

Why Do Your Loyal Customers Keep Coming Back?: Loyal customers enjoy the connections they are able to build with the growers of their favorite teas.

Where Can Your Teas be Purchased?: Online only.

What Are Some of the Awards and Accolades that Tealet has received?: Social Entrepreneur of the Year, Hawaii Venture Capital Association.

Is There Anything Else You’d Like to Tell Us About Your Business or Teas?: Tealet is revolutionizing the global distribution of tea.

Note from Now Serving Tea: Check out this great video of Tealet’s Founder/CEO, Elyse Petersen explaining Tealet and why they do what they do (very inspiring!): https://angel.co/tealet

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Business Name: 3 Teas

Type of Business: Tea Retailer

Year Founded: 2013

Location: Burlington, Ontario, Canada

Phone: (905) 581-2336

Website: www.3-teas.com

What is Unique About Your Business?: We strive to provide only quality, ethically produced specialty teas. Looking for a tea you cannot find elsewhere? We can source it for you!

What Are Your Best-Selling Teas?: Strawberry Green tea, Cherry Rose Green tea, Chunmee Green tea,  Lavender White tea, Green Matcha, Peach Apricot Black tea, Creme Earl Grey, Yorkshire Harrogate black tea, and Hibiscus tea.

Do You Carry Organic Teas?: Yes.

Do You Carry Fair-Trade Teas?: Yes.

Where Are Your Teas Grown?: China, India, and Kenya.

Why Do Your Loyal Customers Keep Coming Back?: Customer service and exceptional tea quality.

Where Can Your Teas be Purchased?: Online at www.3-teas.com and at local trade shows.

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Business Name: Teamania

Type of Business: Tea Shop, Tea Importer, and Tea Retailer.

Year Founded: 2011

Location: Teamania c/o Peter Pocajt, Auenring 51, 8303 Bassersdorf, Switzerland

Phone: +41 44 586 00 48

Website: www.Teamania.ch

What is Unique About Your Business?: Teamania is specialized in tea from Thailand and adjacent countries.

What Are Your Best-Selling Teas?: Oolong Ruan Zhi, Oolong Jin Xuan, Oolong Osmanthus, Green Tea with Lemongrass, Matcha, Jiaogulan tea (tisane), and Mulberry tea (tisane).

Do You Carry Organic Teas?: Yes.

Where Are Your Teas Grown?: Thailand: Doi Mae Salong, Doi Angkhang, Chiang Dao   China: Yunnan, Fujian, Wuyi, Anhui.

Why Do Your Loyal Customers Keep Coming Back?: Our customers are particularly interested in Oolong from Thailand.

Where Can Your Teas be Purchased?: Online at www.Teamania.ch, as well as at the following tea shops: Yeng Hong tea in Doi Mae Salong, Thailand; Lee Teng tea in Singapore.

Is There Anything Else You’d Like to Tell Us About Your Business or Teas?: Wholesalers and retailers are welcome.

Teamania's Ruan Zhi tea

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Business Name: Ma Soeur Mobile Tea Parties

Type of Business: Mobile Tea Service

Year Founded: 2012

Location: Los Angeles, California area

Phone: (818) 290-1745 or (951) 490-5080

Website: www.MaSoeurTea.com

What is Unique About Your Business?: We are mobile. We bring the tea service to you.

What Are Your Best-Selling Teas?: Blossoming teas, herbal teas, organic teas, and oolong teas.

Do You Carry Organic Teas?: Yes.

Why Do Your Loyal Customers Keep Coming Back?: We create beautiful venues, provide a lovely tea service, and have signature menu items that our customers love.  All that our customers need to do is supply the venue.

What Are Some of Your Specialty Foods and Customer Favorites?:  Tea sandwiches, scones, tea cakes, petit fours, traditional English trifle, and signature items (e.g. fruit salad, pots de crème, and teacup bread pudding).

Is There Anything Else You’d Like to Tell Us About Your Business or Teas?: We are constantly adding to our offerings, and working to create a unique experience for our customers.

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Business Name: Anyone for Tea? Catering

Type of Business: Vintage English Tea Party Catering

Year Founded: 1999

Location: Kitchen only location: 21727 Sherman Way, Canoga Park, California 91303.  We cater at client’s homes, place of business, etc. – “Have teapot will travel” is our motto!

Phone: (310) 924-1341

Website: www.AnyoneForTeaCatering.com

What is Unique About Your Business?: We specialize in Vintage Tea Party Catering.  We provide gorgeous vintage china, silverware and glassware. We make all our own pastries, scones, etc.

What Are Your Best-Selling Teas?: English Breakfast, Wild Sweet Orange, Darjeeling, and Earl Grey.

Do You Carry Organic Teas?: Yes.

Do You Carry Fair-Trade Teas?: Yes.

What Brands of Tea Do You Carry?:

• Mariage Freres
• Twinings
• Numi
• Stash
• Whittards
• PG Tips
• Typhoo
• Tazo

Why Do Your Loyal Customers Keep Coming Back?: Because they love our food and gorgeous vintage settings.

What Are Some of Your Specialty Foods and Customer Favorites?: 

• Fresh fruit scones (strawberry, blueberry, raspberry).
• Delicate tea sandwiches:  Smoked salmon & dill butter; Tomato basil & goat cheese; Chopped black olive & cream cheese; Arugula, roasted red pepper & goat cheese; Cucumber & watercress;  Curried chicken salad with mango and grapes; Rare roast beef with rocket and wasabi mayonnaise; and Turkey with scallion cream cheese.
• Deviled eggs with caviar, homemade mini quiches, homemade mini crab cakes…
• Desserts: Boozy mini English trifles, mini carrot cakes, truffle brownie hearts, organic meyer lemon bar bites…

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Business Name: Gwen’s Teas

Type of Business: Tea Retailer

Year Founded: 2012

Location: 163 St. Paul Street, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada  L2R 3M5

Phone: (905) 397-8184

Website: www.GwensTeas.com

What is Unique About Your Business?: We offer over 200 different types of loose leaf, organic teas.

What Are Your Best-Selling Teas?: Coco-chocolate Chai, Prince Vladimir black tea, and Ginger Snap Rooibos.

Do You Carry Organic Teas?: Yes.

Do You Carry Fair-Trade Teas?: Yes.

Where Are Your Teas Grown?: India, China, Japan, Kenya, South Africa, and Argentina.

Why Do Your Loyal Customers Keep Coming Back?: Fresh flavour, variety, and quality.

Where Can Your Teas be Purchased?: In-store only, currently.

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Business Name: Northwest Cups of Tea

Type of Business: Local Online Tea Retailer

Year Founded: 2013

Location: Tacoma, Washington, USA

Phone: (253) 548-7142

Website: www.NorthwestCupsofTea.com

What is Unique About Your Business?: Our selection of tea, cups, and accessories is hand-selected.  All of our teas have organic and natural ingredients with no artificial flavoring. Each tea is reviewed for its ingredients, description, and reviews, and if it meets our standards we will provide the tea on our site.  We are currently working with local artists to provide handmade cups that give our customers a one-of-a-kind unique product to discover and experience the world of tea.  We only provide tea and brewing accessories that give our customers an enjoyable experience while being easy to use and easy to clean.

What Are Your Best-Selling Teas?: Pomegranate Green, Creamy Earl Grey, Cranberry Green, Rainforest Mango, Ruby Mountain Red Vanilla Rooibos, Spiced Apple Chai, and Very Berry Vanilla Truffle.

Do You Carry Organic Teas?: Yes.

Do You Carry Fair-Trade Teas?: Yes.

Where Are Your Teas Grown?: Our teas are grown from around the world.  We work closely with our tea suppliers to ensure they work closely with the farmers to reduce the number of people in the supply chain.

Why Do Your Loyal Customers Keep Coming Back?: We have been told that we provide superior service in comparison to our competition.  We like to educate our customers about tea and its health benefits and give them information to create a unique tea drinking experience.  We also work with our customers to make sure their orders and shipping are processed in a timely manner that meets or exceeds expectations.  We hand-select our teas to ensure our customers get the best quality of tea for their money.

Where Can Your Teas be Purchased?: Our teas can be purchased at www.NorthwestCupsofTea.com.

Is There Anything Else You’d Like to Tell Us About Your Business or Teas?: “Discover and experience the world of tea by creating connections through conversation in our local and online communities.”

The world of tea is a deeply rooted cultural experience that stimulates the mind and senses.  Our mission is to share this experience by creating connections through conversation in our local and online communities.

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Business Name: Udyan Tea

Type of Business: Tea Retailer and Tea Wholesaler

Year Founded: 2012

Location: UGP Ventures, 31 Sevoke Road, Binda Jayanti Building, Siliguri – 734001, West Bengal, India

Phone: +91-353-6555536

Website: www.UdyanTea.com

What is Unique About Your Business?: We sell high quality teas of various types – Black, Green, White, Flower, etc., from the best tea gardens in Darjeeling and other parts of India. We source all our teas directly from the gardens to ensure authenticity . We also vacuum pack all our teas in superior quality aluminum foil pouches using state-of-the-art machinery to ensure that our customers enjoy the real flavour, aroma and freshness of their teas.  We also manufacture superior quality tea bags of different flavours – Darjeeling Black Tea, Green Tea, and CTC Tea, under our brand name “Udyan Tea”.

What Are Your Best-Selling Teas?: Black tea and green tea.

Do You Carry Organic Teas?: Yes.

Where Are Your Teas Grown?: In Darjeeling and other parts of India.

Why Do Your Loyal Customers Keep Coming Back?: We have just started and sell only high quality teas from the best gardens in Darjeeling and other parts of India. Our tea tasters ensure that we pick only the best teas from the varieties available in the gardens. Our packaging and machinery ensure that the teas are delivered to our customers as fresh as possible.

Where Can Your Teas be Purchased?: Our teas can be purchased at our online tea shop at http://udyantea.com/tea-shop.html.

Is There Anything Else You’d Like to Tell Us About Your Business or Teas?:  We also sell teas on a wholesale basis at heavily discounted rates with low minimum orders of 5kgs and we ship all our products worldwide. Whether you are a tea retailer, wholesaler, hotel, restaurant, café, food & catering service provider, an office owner or even a tea stand, you can serve your customers with the best and freshest tea.

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Business Name: Galla Coffee

Type of Business: Tea Retailer

Year Founded: 2006

Location: Lincolnshire, United Kingdom

Phone: 01507 607540

Website: www.GallaCoffee.co.uk

What is Unique About Your Business?: We sell a variety of loose leaf teas and infusions.  All our teas are sold in resealable pouches, to help our customers keep their tea fresh and flavourful.

What Are Your Best-Selling Teas?: English Breakfast Tea, Earl Grey, Assam TGFOP1 2nd Flush, and Japanese Sencha Fukujyu.

Where Are Your Teas Grown?: China, India, Japan, Sri Lanka, and Taiwan.

Why Do Your Loyal Customers Keep Coming Back?: Mainly for the tasty teas, but also for our swift delivery and friendly customer service.

Where Can Your Teas be Purchased?: Through our website.

Darjeeling 1st Flush Tea

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