Tea shops · Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Tea shops · Hong Kong, Hong KongLockCha Tea House (樂茶軒)
A 1991 loose-leaf shop that grew into a teahouse inside Hong Kong Park: single-harvest Chinese tea, vegetarian dim sum and a second home in Tai Kwun.
Most tea shops in this city are a counter. LockCha is a park, a gallery building and a Sunday afternoon of Chinese music with a pot of Phoenix oolong.
LockCha started in 1991 as a loose-leaf shop, founded by Wing-Chi Ip. In 2003 it opened its first teahouse inside Hong Kong Park, on the ground floor of the K.S. Lo Gallery on Cotton Tree Drive, in Admiralty. A second teahouse with the flagship shop followed in Tai Kwun, on Hollywood Road in Central. Both serve vegetarian dim sum alongside more than a hundred teas, and the Tai Kwun one adds tea cocktails and the house's own tea beers.
The teas are single-harvest Chinese leaf, sold in packs of 50 and 75 g. The red-tea shelf holds a Lapsang Souchong and a Tianshan gongfu; the greens run from a Lion Peak pre-Qingming Longjing to a jasmine-scented green sold in 100 g. The oolongs cross the strait: a fragrant Anxi Tieguanyin, an Alishan from Taiwan and a Phoenix Dan Cong from Guangdong. At the dark end sit an aged brown pu-erh and an old Liubao, both in 75 g.
The park teahouse is also a stage. Chinese music has played there on Sundays since 2001 and Cantonese music on Saturdays since 2008; on weekdays the house gives private tea classes. The website is the other door in: local delivery is free from HK$300 and overseas orders ship from HK$800. If you only have one afternoon, make it a Sunday in the park, with dim sum on the table and a pot of something from the oolong shelf.
- prices
- 9
- tea types
- 5
- from
- HK$ 110
- shops
- 2
Where it is
Hong Kong Park
G/F, The K.S. Lo Gallery, Hong Kong Park, 10 Cotton Tree Drive, Admiralty
Tai Kwun
G06-07, Block 01, Tai Kwun, 10 Hollywood Road, Central
What to buy here
Lapsang Souchong
Lapsang Souchong (正山小種)
HK$ 190 · 50 g
A Wuyi classic in a 50 g pack, the smallest and most familiar way onto the red-tea shelf.
See our page on this tea →Phoenix Dan Cong
Select Phoenix Oolong (珍選鳳凰單欉)
HK$ 250 · 50 g
A Guangdong dan cong in 50 g, the size that lets you try a Phoenix oolong before buying a jar of it.
See our page on this tea →Liu Bao
Old Liubao (陳年六堡)
HK$ 360 · 75 g
An aged Liubao in 75 g: the dark-tea family most shops skip entirely, sold here next to the pu-erh.
See our page on this tea →
The one worth the trip
Shifeng (Lion Peak) Mingqian Longjing (明前獅峰龍井)
HK$ 350 · 50 g
A pre-Qingming Longjing from Lion Peak, one of the named West Lake hillsides, in 50 g. Buy it at the park teahouse and drink the first pot there, over dim sum, before you take the rest home.
See our page on this tea →All prices
Open a tea to see who else sells it.
| Tea | Type | Price | Size |
|---|---|---|---|
| Premium Jasmine Green Tea (天一香芽) | Green tea | HK$ 110 | 100 g |
| Tieguanyin (Fragrant) (高香鐵觀音) | Oolong tea | HK$ 140 | 75 g |
| Tianshan Gongfu Red Tea (天山工夫紅茶) | Black tea | HK$ 160 | 75 g |
| Lapsang Souchong (正山小種) | Black tea | HK$ 190 | 50 g |
| Alishan Oolong (阿里山烏龍) | Oolong tea | HK$ 220 | 75 g |
| Select Phoenix Oolong (珍選鳳凰單欉) | Oolong tea | HK$ 250 | 50 g |
| Select Aged Brown Pu'er (陳年珍藏普洱) | Pu-erh tea | HK$ 260 | 75 g |
| Shifeng (Lion Peak) Mingqian Longjing (明前獅峰龍井) | Green tea | HK$ 350 | 50 g |
| Old Liubao (陳年六堡) | Dark tea | HK$ 360 | 75 g |
Teas you can find here
Do you work at this tea house?
Claim this page and we will hand you the keys: your own photo and logo, the shop described in your words, your tastings and events, and how many people read it each month. What we never hand over is the editorial part — the picks, the write-up and the prices stay ours.