Tea Atelier

Welcome to our 2023 sourcing digest. This is a compilation of mini journals from this year's trip to Taiwan. Our typical routine for sourcing is keeping a homebase in Taipei while taking mini journeys to various towns. We organized the diaries in such sequence to recap our thoughts and takeaway. Enjoy! 

Let us take you behind to scenes on how we preserve and jar kumquats, one of our favorite tea snacks.

For this year's Holiday gift box design, we were thrilled to be working with a local illustrator, Elaine Lee, to bring our vision to life. Elaine works mainly with watercolor and color pencils. Her illustrated stationaries are adorned. Get to know her here!

Té turns 7 this year and in keeping with the last two years' anniversaries, we’re continuing the Golden Ticket event to celebrate our birthday with you.

For Té's 7th year anniversary month, we invited a local artist, Youkee Nishita, to celebrate our birthday with us. It's our first time hosting an artist exhibition at the tearoom and we think it's going to be quite special. Get to know him here!

Moody, atmospheric, and full of landscapes and portraits of everyday life, Wei Ying-Wu's poetry is perfect for summer tea drinking. We like them best in the countryside or on the beach, but they also work as an elevated form of escapism...we can confirm.

Meet our favorite Portuguese grandmother. Born in 1928 in a small Portuguese town near Porto, Clementina is a force to be reckoned with: Her resilience, independence, and strength are near-universal traits of motherhood.

Finally, we reopened our doors for indoor tea service. Read our reopening journey particularly in checking vaccination cards.

Persimmons are just pretty great. They look good, they last a while (decorations can’t go bad in a day or two), and when they’ve ripened they taste good, too. This year, we dried a lot of them in our tiny New York City tearoom to share with our guests. Read about our journey here!

Happy Lunar New Year! Start your year by getting to know 2022's zodiac animal, the confident and ambitious Tiger.

Té turns 6 this year and in keeping with last year's anniversary, we’re continuing the Golden Ticket event inspired by Willy Wonka to celebrate our birthday with you.