Tea & Coffee Merchants in Taipei
4 stores · curated ORBIS register
Lin Hua Tai is a tea merchant on Chongqing North Road in Taipei's Datong district that serves both retail and wholesale customers. The business dates to 1883, giving it a long commercial history within the city's tea trade. Its retail service allows individual shoppers to buy tea without treating the premises as solely a wholesale supplier.
Fifth-generation Dadaocheng tea house from tea-farmer Lin Wanxing; current door is a registered tea factory/shop at Chongqing N. Sec. 2 No. 195-3 (official about; food-operator register).
Wang De Chuan traces to 1862, when Wang An Shang crossed from Jinjiang in Fujian and founded the first tea house in Tainan, then the capital of Taiwan. The Taipei flagship moved to Zhongshan North Road at the end of 2012. Oolongs from Lishan, Nantou and Mu Zha sit beside raw and ripe puer from Yunnan. Teaware and gift sets are sold alongside the leaf.
Opened 1946 by Yao Dehe as a Yongle Market herb stall; still a working Minle St herb shop selling dried herbs plus bottled qingcao tea (PeoPo; Crossing).