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Tea shops inKathmandu.

Kathmandu sells Nepal's own orthodox tea under Nepali names. A tea company born from the family that started the country's first certified organic tea garden runs a tea bar inside Kathmandu Guest House, in Thamel, and four more inside cafés across the city, with loose-leaf black and green teas from Rs 499 for 50 g. In Chabahil, an exporter of high-grown Nepali teas keeps an outlet open daily, with numbered loose teas from Rs 430 and boxes of tea bags from Rs 285.

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01Loose-leaf specialist
Nepal Tea Collective
Thamel (Kathmandu Guest House); tea bars in Thamel, Bouddha, Durbarmarg and Gyanmandala
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Nepal Tea Collective
Inside Kathmandu Guest House, Saathghumti Marg, Kathmandu
The tea bars of the family behind Nepal's first certified organic tea garden, selling its black, green, oolong and white teas across Kathmandu.
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The Kathmandu side of a tea company based in New York and Kathmandu, grown out of Kanchanjangha Tea Estate, the garden in Phidim, eastern Nepal, that its own history dates to 1984 and calls the first certified organic tea garden in the country. Its KGH Tea Bar is inside Kathmandu Guest House, on Saathghumti Marg, and four more tea bars sit inside Himalayan Java cafés in Thamel, Bouddha, Durbarmarg and Gyanmandala. Loose leaf comes in 50 g and 100 g: Himalayan Sunrise black and Himalayan Mist green at Rs 499 for 50 g, Shangri-La Oolong at Rs 899, Kumari Gold and White Prakash at Rs 999, and Silver Yeti, a silver needle, at Rs 999 for 30 g.
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Website: nepalteacollective.com.np
02Loose-leaf specialist
Nepal Tea Exchange
Chabahil
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Nepal Tea Exchange
Gangahity Marg - 07, Kathmandu
An exporter of high-grown Nepali orthodox tea with an outlet in Chabahil, where every tea on the shelf carries a number and a degree sign.
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An exporter of orthodox teas from Nepal's high gardens with an outlet in Chabahil, at Gangahity Marg - 07, that it lists as open daily. The teas carry a number and a degree sign: 01° Organic Ilam Black at Rs 985 for 100 g, 27° Oolong at Rs 1,135 for 60 g, 22° Jasmine Green at Rs 1,150 for 80 g, 28° Golden Tips Shangri-la at Rs 1,840 for 50 g and 33° Silver Tips at Rs 2,265 for 50 g. A Souvenir Collection puts Earl Grey, masala, jasmine green and chamomile in boxes of 25 tea bags from Rs 390, and tea tasting sessions can be booked in a quick-steep or a gong-fu style.
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Website: nepalteaexchange.com.np