Tea shops · Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Tea shops · Hong Kong, Hong KongSun Sing Tea (新星茶莊)
A pu-erh house on the 32nd floor of a Causeway Bay office block, where the cakes are filed by decade and the everyday teas are sold by the tael.
The shop is Room 3201. You take a lift to the 32nd floor, sit down in a tea room above Russell Street and brew the cake before you decide.
Sun Sing began as a company in 1996, exporting and wholesaling antique pu-erh, and opened its retail shop in April 2002 on Cameron Road in Tsim Sha Tsui. Today the address is Room 3201 on the 32nd floor of Soundwill Plaza, at 38 Russell Street in Causeway Bay: a sky tea room with a self-brew service, where you brew what you are about to buy. The house also teaches tea classes and is a Quality Tourism Services merchant of the tourism board, with a 30-day exchange at the shop.
Pu-erh is the reason to come, and it is arranged by decade: from the numbered labels of the early 1900s through to cakes from 2011 onwards, with the house's own cakes pressed since 2004. Among them is a 2011 ecological ripe cake of around 400 g. The same cabinet keeps aged Liu An and antique Liu An baskets, the dark tea of Anhui, next to the Yunnan cakes. It is a list you read with a pot in front of you, which is what the sky tea room is for.
The everyday shelf is sold the Hong Kong way, by the tael: one tael is 37.5 g, two taels 75 g. A red-heart Tieguanyin and jasmine small dragon pearls come in two-tael packs; a West Lake Longjing, a Dong Ding, a Jinhua black from Zhejiang and a Zhenghe white peony in 75 g; a Da Hong Pao in a single tael. Local delivery is free from HK$500 and HK$50 below that, and overseas parcels go by Hongkong Post.
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Where it is
Causeway Bay
Room 3201, 32/F, Soundwill Plaza, 38 Russell Street, Causeway Bay
What to buy here
Tieguanyin
Red-heart Tieguanyin, 2 taels (紅芯鐵觀音)
from HK$ 70 · 75 g
Two taels of red-heart Tieguanyin, the cheapest way onto the everyday shelf and the pack to start with if you have never bought tea by the tael.
See our page on this tea →Da Hong Pao
Da Hong Pao, 1 tael (大紅袍)
HK$ 300 · 37.5 g
A Wuyi Da Hong Pao sold by the single tael, which is exactly the amount you want of a rock tea you are trying for the first time.
See our page on this tea →Pai Mu Tan
Zhenghe White Peony (逸品政和白牡丹)
HK$ 160 · 75 g
A white peony from Zhenghe rather than Fuding, in 75 g: the other county that makes the style, and the one that travels less.
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The one worth the trip
2011 Ecological ripe pu-erh cake (2011年生態熟餅)
HK$ 750 · approx. 400 g
A 2011 ecological ripe cake of around 400 g, from a house that sorts its pu-erh by decade. The point of the 32nd floor is that you can sit down and brew it before you carry it home.
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| Tea | Type | Price | Size |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red-heart Tieguanyin, 2 taels (紅芯鐵觀音) | Oolong tea | from HK$ 70 | 75 g |
| Jasmine small dragon pearls, 2 taels (茉莉小龍珠) | Green tea | from HK$ 90 | 75 g |
| Zhenghe White Peony (逸品政和白牡丹) | White tea | HK$ 160 | 75 g |
| Jinhua black tea, Zhejiang (金華紅茶) | Black tea | HK$ 180 | 75 g |
| Dong Ding Oolong (凍頂烏龍) | Oolong tea | HK$ 200 | 75 g |
| Da Hong Pao, 1 tael (大紅袍) | Oolong tea | HK$ 300 | 37.5 g |
| West Lake Longjing (西湖龍井) | Green tea | HK$ 360 | 75 g |
| 2011 Ecological ripe pu-erh cake (2011年生態熟餅) | Pu-erh tea | HK$ 750 | approx. 400 g |
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