Tea Houses/Ceremonies in Beijing/Shanghai

Tea Houses/Ceremonies in Beijing/Shanghai

Could someone please give me some recommendations for good places to go to experience the Tea Ceremony.

Nice atmosphere/experience/reasonable price

Thanks so much

Tea Houses/Ceremonies in Beijing/Shanghai

Good option is to go to some of more popular theatres with in some hotel and see beijing opera show. If you take first class ticket, you will be placed on the dinning table, get some snack and before opera starts, tea ceremony will be performed just for your table. It is good opportunity to join 2 in 1.

Second class ticket for opera include only regular seat behind tables.

Have fun; )

Tea Houses/Ceremonies in Beijing/Shanghai

Thanks for the advice. Any places you recommend? and prices? Thanks so much

There are tons of tea houses in Beijing, but the tea ceremony is actually more of a southern custom. I always think of Chengdu as the place for this. Or Japan, where it developed into a high art.

If anyone approaches you and invites you to a tea house, don%26#39;t go, as they will disappear and stick you will be stuck with an inflated bill.

You can enjoy tea at teahouses in Purple Bamboo park (outside, so not a good option in winter!), in the Forbidden City and Summer Palace in Beijing, and also in the center of the lake at Yuyuan in Shanghai. You can enjoy the tea and the atmosphere, but there will not be a ceremony.

As noted above, there are performances where you can enjoy tea and snacks while you watch. Again, these are not tea cermonies. Venues are the Laoshe teahouse, Sanwei Bookstore (with music), or the Beijing opera performance at the Qianmen hotel (though tea is only served in some of the better seats, so ask.)

You can go to a reasonably well established place which sells only tea leaves and tea sets. (All sorts - and I literally mean all sorts) They will be only too happy to demonstrate a ';tea ceremony';. As other posters have stated, these are not the serious tea ceremonies (as in Japan). You get to taste the flavour of various types of tea, ( most of them are very good) and get to watch and learn the ';kung fu'; of making good tea. At the end of everything, they of course hope that you will buy some tea leaves/tea sets off them. (However, if you are travelling in a tour group, a visit to a ';tea ceremony'; is definitely on the agenda.)

Enjoy Beijing.

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