This time-honored teahouse, which has been in operation in Hangzhou for 22 years, has an eye-catching wrap-around turquoise signboard that is impressive. Founded in 1996, the first Qingteng Tea House is located opposite the Three Parks, and is the first tea house by the West Lake, with a total of five branches in its heyday. Nowadays, Qingteng has two stores in Hangzhou, of which Yuanhua Main Store is a place where public tea people in Hangzhou gather and spend time, and it is also the largest self-service tea house in Hangzhou. The splendid store pays more attention to tea tasting, the quality of tea is relatively high, the privacy is better, and it is biased towards business-oriented consumption.
Qingteng has been making tea for many years, has its own fixed tea farmers, and also has its own tea base outside Zhejiang Province, which shows that its scale and strength are in the forefront of its peers. On the occasion of tea picking, the farmers of several tea mountains such as Shifeng and Meijiawu will leave a few hills for the tea masters of Qingteng to choose, ensuring the stable quality of tea provided every year. In addition to making local tea, Qingteng will also go to the surrounding area to collect alpine tea seeds, including rare tea products from wild ancient trees. The tea water selected by Qingteng is directly taken from the Hupao Spring Water Factory, and the water from the water plant is only directly supplied to a few teahouses, Qingteng is one of them, and insists on taking the water of the day to ensure the freshness of the tea to the greatest extent.
The minimum purchase per person in the Yuanhua store is 88 yuan, and the consumer price ranges from 88-680 yuan. Yuanhua store is mainly self-service, self-pickup food includes more than 80 varieties of staple food, snacks, snacks, fruits, etc., and also distributes milk tea, sago dew, scallion stew, Dingsheng cake, braised pork rice and other Jiangnan special snacks. The minimum consumption per person in the Fairview store is 158 yuan, and the consumer price ranges from 158-680 yuan. Tea tasting is the mainstay, but dried fruits and fruits are also delivered, and the types of fruits served vary according to the season. The two stores offer tea products covering basic tea categories, and some tea products are not available consistently.
If you focus on tea tasting, we recommend going to the Splendid Shop. Qingteng is produced in Zhejiang Longjing on the bank of the Qiantang River, and the West Lake Longjing is divided into two kinds before the rain and before the rain, with an emerald green appearance and a sweet taste. Among the green teas, there is a rare Jiangnan ancient tree tea, which is harvested from the only well-preserved Qing Dynasty tea tree in Qiandao Lake, which is extremely rare in Jiangnan. After brewing, the ancient tree tea has a primitive mountain atmosphere, and the entrance is rich, but then it is slowly surging with sweetness, and the aroma is high and long-lasting. Alpine tea is also the signature tea of Qingteng, Lin'an Tianmu Mountain Wild Tea, which is produced from the alpine ecological tea above 800 meters above sea level. There is also a dish of Kaihua soil tea, which belongs to the source tea of Qianjiang, which is processed according to the traditional style and retains the cold atmosphere of the high mountains.
In the Qingteng Jinxiu store, you can also taste decades of old Pu'er tea. 70 horseback bricks can be described as a treasure in Pu'er, after brewing, the soup color is red and bright, the taste is mellow, and the aged fragrance is rich. There is also a Chinese tea red ribbon cooked cake produced in the 90s of the last century, this Pu'er old tea tea is mild, resistant to brewing, taste carefully, each brew of tea has a different charm. In addition to ripe Pu, there are four kinds of Shengpu to provide: Jingmai thousand-year-old tree tea, produced in the Jingmai Ancient Tea Garden more than 1,300 years ago in the territory of the Lancang River, with a unique quiet nectar fragrance, the soup color is golden yellow, the entrance is thick and smooth, and the lips and teeth are fragrant; Banzhang arbor ancient tree tea, produced in the ancient tea garden (above 1700 meters above sea level) in the new and old Banzhang area of Menghai Brown Mountain, Yunnan, is handmade by the old tea farmers of the Hani nationality, the soup color is orange and yellow, the taste is strong, the sweetness is fast and lasting, the tea is full and domineering, and the sense of hierarchy is strong; In addition, there are 98 Chinese tea raw cakes and 06 golden bud tribute cakes, all of which are rare Pu'er treasures.
Different from the traditional self-service consumption method of exquisite snacks in Yuanhua store, Jinxiu store restores the essence of traditional tea ceremony. More than a dozen tea masters in the store hold the qualification certificate of "senior tea master", uniformly dressed in plain cheongsam, and are proficient and calm in the brewing methods of different tea sets. Located on the second floor of the Wyndham Howdham Hotel, the splendid store covers an area of 1,500 square meters and is a box-style teahouse, with more than 30 boxes named after guqin songs. There are two types of private rooms: Chinese and Japanese-style tatami mats, and there is also an outdoor terrace area. The teahouse is paved with green bricks, with large low tables of old wood, and the green plants echo with the dim and quiet lighting, which is rich in classical flavor and has a tranquil Zen environment.
