Tea shops · Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Tea shops · Kaohsiung, TaiwanEver Trust Tea (長信名茶)
A Kaohsiung family tea merchant since 1971, with its flagship on Jianguo 1st Road in Sanmin and a shelf of Taiwanese high-mountain oolongs, Sun Moon Lake blacks and aged teas.
Fifty years of selling tea in the same city shows in the shelf: the everyday Alishan at the price of a lunch, and behind it the Dayuling, the Oriental Beauty and the aged oolongs for when someone asks for more.
Ever Trust Tea, 長信名茶, was founded in 1971 by Huang Tian-yong and describes itself as a fifty-year Kaohsiung tea house. Its flagship store is at No. 476 Jianguo 1st Road in Sanmin District and opens every day of the week from 10:00 to 21:00. The name, the brand story says, comes from a belief the founder inherited from his father: that trust is built slowly and kept for a long time. Alongside the shop runs a web store that ships across Taiwan.
The range is Taiwanese first: Alishan, Shizhuo, Shanlinxi, Lishan, Huagang and Dayuling oolongs in 75 g and 150 g vacuum packs, Dong Ding, a winter Wenshan Baozhong from Pinglin, Oriental Beauty, a red oolong from Luye and aged oolongs from 1979 and 2011. The black teas come in 100 g: Sun Moon Lake, Ruby No. 18 and a Lishan bud black. There is also a box of Yunnan ripe pu-erh mini cakes, pyramid tea bags, gift boxes and teaware.
Two things set the house apart from a plain tea counter. It publishes a pesticide-residue test report for its teas every year, from 2020 to 2025, on its own website, and it lists the competition awards it won between 2018 and 2021. It also makes custom and corporate gift boxes and supplies commercial and high-mountain tea in volume, which is why the same shop serves a family buying 150 g and a restaurant buying by the catty.
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Where it is
Flagship store (Sanmin)
No. 476, Jianguo 1st Rd, Sanmin District, Kaohsiung 807 (高雄市三民區建國一路476號)
Hours: Mon–Sun 10:00–21:00
What to buy here
Yunnan Dianhong
精選日月潭紅玉紅茶 (Sun Moon Lake Ruby No. 18)
NT$ 480 · 100 g
Ruby No. 18 from Sun Moon Lake, the Taiwanese black with the mint-and-cinnamon note that no imported black tea has, in a 100 g pack.
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阿里山烏龍茶 (Alishan Oolong)
from NT$ 360 · 150 g
The house Alishan oolong in a 150 g vacuum pack: the everyday high-mountain cup of the city, and the cheapest way into the shelf.
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冬片包種茶 文山坪林 (Wenshan Baozhong, winter)
from NT$ 300 · 150 g
A winter Wenshan Baozhong from Pinglin, the lightly oxidised, strip-shaped oolong from the north of the island that few southern shops carry.
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The one worth the trip
頂級東方美人 (Top-grade Oriental Beauty)
NT$ 780 · 100 g
The top-grade Oriental Beauty: the leafhopper-bitten summer oolong with honey and ripe fruit in the cup, sold in 100 g and worth tasting at the counter before choosing between it and the high-mountain teas.
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| Tea | Type | Price | Size |
|---|---|---|---|
| 冬片包種茶 文山坪林 (Wenshan Baozhong, winter) | Oolong tea | from NT$ 300 | 150 g |
| 阿里山烏龍茶 (Alishan Oolong) | Oolong tea | from NT$ 360 | 150 g |
| 凍頂烏龍茶 (Dong Ding Oolong) | Oolong tea | from NT$ 360 | 150 g |
| 紅耀系列 日月潭紅茶 (Sun Moon Lake Black Tea) | Black tea | NT$ 480 | 100 g |
| 精選日月潭紅玉紅茶 (Sun Moon Lake Ruby No. 18) | Black tea | NT$ 480 | 100 g |
| 大禹嶺烏龍茶 (Dayuling High-Mountain Oolong) | Oolong tea | from NT$ 600 | 75 g |
| 頂級東方美人 (Top-grade Oriental Beauty) | Oolong tea | NT$ 780 | 100 g |
| 雲南宮廷普洱一泡餅 (Gongting ripe pu-erh mini cakes) | Pu-erh tea | NT$ 1,380 | 450 g |
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