Finland, Panama and Malaysia join the tea shop map, with nine more cities

Twelve cities joined our tea shop pages this week, and three of them open countries that were not on the map until now: Finland, Panama and Malaysia. Each page carries the same things: shops with a street address, the hours they publish, prices with pack size and currency for the teas on their shelves, and the counter we would send a friend to first. Twenty-nine of the new shops have a page of their own, with three picks from the shelf and one tea worth the trip. Los Angeles, the oldest page on the list that still had a single shop, now has two.

Helsinki opens Finland with three tea houses a few blocks apart in Kamppi and Punavuori. TeeMaa at Annankatu 19 brews gongfu style and sells an Assam Mokalbari second flush at 8,50 € for 50 g; Teetao on Uudenmaankatu sells Chinese and Taiwanese teas from 30 g, a Da Hong Pao at 10,00 €; and Théhuone at Eerikinkatu 10, open since 2005, weighs most teas by the gram and has a Sencha Fuji at 16,00 € for 100 g. Panama City prices in US dollars: Biotea House, with a shop in Casco Antiguo and kiosks at Multiplaza and Altaplaza, sells an Assam Borengajuli at US$ 8.50 for 50 g; Salón del Té Chino on Vía Argentina sells by the half pound, a Tie Guan Yin at US$ 19; and Open Luna Tea keeps its counter inside Bóveda Natural in Obarrio, with a Kagoshima hojicha at US$ 15 for 30 g. Petaling Jaya is Malaysia's first city: Purple Cane at 1 Utama has a Dong Ding at RM 52.50 for 100 g, and Chinese Tea Malaysia in Kota Damansara a 2016 ripe pu-erh cake at RM 208 for 357 g.

Canada gained four cities. In Edmonton, Acquired Taste Tea Company on 124 Street, a shop since 1996, sells English Breakfast and Earl Grey at CA$ 8.50 for 50 g, and Vintage Fork, inside the historic Barto Residence on 95A Street, has a Jin Jun Mei at CA$ 20.49. In Ottawa, Teastore at 53 York Street, part of the ByWard Market since 1996, prices every loose tea by the 100 g, Earl Grey and English Breakfast at CA$ 15. Winnipeg has Cornelia Bean on Academy Road, English Breakfast at CA$ 8 for 50 g, and the Amsterdam Tea Room in the Exchange District, a tea cocktail bar whose whole menu is sold to take home, Assam at CA$ 14 for 50 g. Hamilton is led by Tea At The White House in Waterdown, open since 1999, which sizes its bags by the cup, English Breakfast at CA$ 9 for 25 cups, with DAVIDsTEA at Lime Ridge Mall on the Mountain.

In the United States, Albuquerque is the deepest page of the week with five shops, from New Mexico Tea Company on Mountain Road, which weighs out more than 300 teas by the ounce, organic English Breakfast at US$ 3.75, to The St. James Tearoom on Osuna Road, open since 1999. Anchorage has Summit Spice & Tea in midtown, selling by the ounce since 1998, a Longjing at US$ 6.95, and Atlanta has Just Add Honey on the BeltLine, organic Assam at US$ 6 the ounce, and Brooklyn Tea in Castleberry Hill. Baltimore pairs Emma's Tea Spot on Harford Road, where every Rishi loose leaf is US$ 3.95 the ounce, with The Spice & Tea Exchange in Fells Point. In Spain, Palma has Tea Ritual on Carrer de les Monges, English Breakfast at 8,70 € for 100 g, and Tea Shop on Carrer de Sant Nicolau.

Los Angeles was this week's maintenance page. Chado Tea Room, in Little Tokyo since 1990, keeps its 4 oz prices unchanged and adds six teas to the list: a Tung Ting oolong at US$ 32.25, a Darjeeling 3911 at US$ 23.38, an Imperial Earl Grey at US$ 15.63, an Organic Gunpowder at US$ 18.38, a Sencha at US$ 12.88 and Jasmine Pearls at US$ 57.38. A block away, Tea Master Matcha Cafe & Green Tea Shop at 450 E 2nd St joins the page with Japanese teas from Yame: an organic sencha at US$ 12 for 100 g, a 2026 first-harvest sencha at US$ 20.80, two 100 g matchas for lattes at US$ 46 and US$ 57, and houjicha and genmaicha in tea bags at US$ 14. Steep LA, the tea room in Chinatown, is listed without prices: its teas are bought at the counter.

Every one of these shops now shows up in the “Where to find it” box of the teas it stocks. Open Sencha, pick a country, and the box lists the shops there that carry it, with price and size: the exact tea first, close matches after, and tea houses with a counter ahead of online-only sellers. If you would rather start from the occasion than from the shop, teas by moment sorts the catalogue that way.

— The FindMeTea editorial team