Spring Taiping Houkui

This exquisite spring green tea offers a pristine cup with delicate orchid notes, a refreshing vegetal sweetness, and a clean mineral finish. Its famously flat leaves yield a bright, invigorating infu. It leans orchid, fresh and mineral.

Water around 70–80 °C (158–176 °F). In a mug, steep 2–3 min. For gongfu, use 3–5 g per 100 ml, 15–30 s steeps. You'll get to see how the flavor changes across multiple rounds. The biggest mistake with green tea is using boiling water. Keep it well below that and you won't get bitterness.

Grown in Anhui, China. This batch is from the Spring 2025 harvest.

Starts at $33.00 from Bitterleaf Teas, or about $0.55/g. A 60g package gets you around 10 gongfu sessions at ~6 g each, which works out to about $3.30 per session. Explore more green teas on Teadar.