ChaiChun is a tea company from Siliguri, in West Bengal, with a Delhi shop at M37 in the M Block Market of Greater Kailash 1. Its founder, Rajeev Baid, began his career as a tea vendor at railway stations and bus stops in the Kishanganj area of Bihar, and built the company from there. The parent business, Evergreen, has its own manufacturing unit in West Bengal, and the retail boutiques came afterwards — which is why this counter sells what the group makes and buys rather than what a distributor offers it.
The teas come from estates around Siliguri, the Dooars, Assam and Darjeeling, and a tasting panel chooses each lot. The list is short and entirely single-origin: Singbulli Darjeeling second flush at ₹ 1,000 for 100 g, an Assam Vintage at ₹ 1,570 for 250 g, Okayti Virgin Green second flush at ₹ 700 and an Oolong Prestige at ₹ 1,500, both per 100 g. Two Darjeeling whites close it — Okayti Silver Needle at ₹ 900 and Rohini Moonlight at ₹ 800 — plus a Rooibos Vanilla at ₹ 1,800 for 150 g.
It is a manufacturer's shop, and the prices show it: nothing here is an entry-level tea, and the 100 g pack is the standard unit, with the Assam going up to 250 g and the rooibos to 150 g. The company keeps boutiques in other Indian cities and ships nationwide, so the Greater Kailash counter works as the place to read the labels — estate, flush, year — before deciding which garden you want a hundred grams of.