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The city guide · VietnamTea shops inHo Chi Minh City.
Ho Chi Minh City buys its tea from two directions. From the highlands of Lâm Đồng comes oolong: the Bảo Lộc producer Tâm Châu keeps a showroom on Đinh Tiên Hoàng in District 1 where a 100 g pack of pure oolong starts at 80,000 ₫. From the north come Thái Nguyên greens and Hà Giang shan teas, sold by a Thái Nguyên family's tea rooms in Thủ Đức and by a Bình Thạnh tea house whose 100 g bags start at 41,000 ₫. In between sits Trà Việt, a gift-grade house with showrooms in District 1 and Phú Nhuận, where every tea comes in a tin or a printed octagonal box.
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- 01Loose-leaf specialist
Shin Tea
Bình Thạnh (Bùi Hữu Nghĩa)
26 prices listedShin Tea
Lô C, chung cư Mỹ Phước, 280/29 Bùi Hữu Nghĩa, Phường 2, Bình Thạnh, TP. Hồ Chí Minh
A Bình Thạnh tea house that sells northern Vietnam by the 100 g bag: Thái Nguyên greens, Hà Giang shan, lotus tea and four local oolongs.
In storeShips onlineSince 201708:00–17:00
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A tea house founded in 2017 that grew out of a tea room in an apartment and now sells from Block C of the Mỹ Phước building at 280/29 Bùi Hữu Nghĩa in Bình Thạnh, where there is a tasting room for choosing teas. Everything is sold in 100 g bags, most also in 250 and 500 g and in 10 g tép sachets: Thái Nguyên greens from Búp Lộc Xuân at 41,000 ₫ up to the Đinh Ngọc bud tea at 272,000 ₫, Hà Giang shan green at 130,000 ₫ and shan black at 195,000 ₫, four Vietnamese oolongs from 47,000 ₫, a Tieguanyin at 200,000 ₫, three shan whites from 280,000 ₫ and West Lake lotus tea at 840,000 ₫.
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Website: shintea.vn 
02Loose-leaf specialistDanh Trà
Thảo Điền, Thủ Đức (two tea rooms) plus a Bình Thạnh warehouse
21 prices listedDanh Trà
30A Đường 46, Phường Thảo Điền, TP. Thủ Đức, TP. Hồ Chí Minh
A Thái Nguyên tea family's two tea rooms in Thủ Đức, selling its own Tân Cương greens next to Hà Giang shan teas and Japanese matcha.
In storeShips onlineRead the full shop note
A Thái Nguyên tea family from Đại Từ with two tea rooms in Thủ Đức, at 30A Đường 46 in Thảo Điền and 12 Đường 39 in the Vạn Phúc estate, both with car parking, and a warehouse at 201/19 Nguyễn Xí in Bình Thạnh. The shelf is its own Tân Cương green from the 4-star Nõn Tôm at 80,000 ₫ to the Ngọc Diệp bud tea at 290,000 ₫ for 100 g, Hà Giang shan black, white and pu-erh, among them a 357 g Triêu Dương cake at 450,000 ₫, and Japanese matcha from Yame and Ōmi in 30 g packs from 300,000 ₫.
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Website: danhtra.com
03Loose-leaf specialistTâm Châu
Đa Kao, District 1 (showroom) plus shops in Districts 5 and 8
21 prices listedTâm Châu
110 Đinh Tiên Hoàng, Phường Đa Kao, Quận 1, TP. Hồ Chí Minh
The District 1 showroom of a Bảo Lộc producer with its own oolong gardens, selling Lâm Đồng oolong in packs, boxes and tea bags.
In storeShips onlineSince 1999Read the full shop note
The Bảo Lộc tea and coffee producer, founded in 1999 with some 160 hectares of oolong gardens in Lâm Đồng, sells from a showroom at 110 Đinh Tiên Hoàng in Đa Kao, District 1, with shops at 117 Bùi Hữu Nghĩa in District 5 and 42 An Dương Vương in District 8. Pure oolong runs from 80,000 ₫ for a 100 g foil pack to 193,000 ₫ for the red-roast box, four flower oolongs cost 80,000 ₫ for 80 g, Móc Câu green is 69,000 ₫ for 100 g and jasmine starts at 55,000 ₫; tea bags of oolong, GABA oolong, black tea and artichoke run 32,000–55,000 ₫ for 50 g.
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Website: tamchau.com- 04Loose-leaf specialist
Trà Việt
District 1 (Hải Triều) and Phú Nhuận (Nguyễn Văn Trỗi)
25 prices listedTrà Việt
19 Hải Triều, Phường Sài Gòn (Quận 1), TP. Hồ Chí Minh
A tea house founded in 2004 with showrooms in District 1 and Phú Nhuận, where every Vietnamese tea comes in a tin, a printed box or ten sachets.
In storeShips onlineSince 2004Every day 08:00–21:00
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A tea house founded in 2004 with showrooms at 19 Hải Triều in District 1 and 44A Nguyễn Văn Trỗi in Phú Nhuận, where tea sessions are staged for visitors. Every tea comes three ways: a tin, an octagonal box printed with Đông Hồ folk motifs, and a box of ten 8 g sachets. The tins run from Thái Nguyên green at 129,600 ₫ for 60 g to Hà Giang shan black at 513,000 ₫ for 50 g, with jasmine, lotus, pandan-scented green, Bảo Lộc oolong, aged oolong, Tieguanyin and twelve herbal tins of seven tea bags in between.
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Website: traviet.com
Prices keep each product’s listed currency and pack size. Check current prices and hours with the shop.
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Hatvala
Bình Thạnh (Lê Văn Duyệt, near Cầu Bông bridge) · 2A Lê Văn Duyệt, Bình Thạnh, TP. Hồ Chí Minh
Website: hatvala.comSingle-origin Vietnamese teas from wild shan trees and small farms, including an Oriental Beauty oolong, sold from a shop near the Cầu Bông bridge and shipped worldwide.
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Currency, grams & tea bags
Each price keeps its original pack size. A box of bags and a pouch of loose leaf aren’t a like-for-like comparison.
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Tea specialists lead the discovery. Other retailers keep their own category, for familiar blends and everyday essentials.
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- 五玄土 ORIENTO · Original photograph · Unsplash License