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West China Tea

Name: West China Tea
Address: 1715 E 7th Street, Austin, TX, 78702, US
Telephone: +15128878324
Price range: $
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West China Tea House, Home of Austin Tea Culture Our goal is to spread Chinese tea culture and the art of gong fu cha, or tea service.
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We offer farm-direct tea and artisan teaware, as well as tea tastings, classes, and workshops.

03/19/2026

It’s a Bunny Tea Party yall! Come have tea with actual live bunnies who you can adopt, in collaboration with . We bring the tea, they bring the buns.
We will be doing tea + bunny time in our new backyard. $35 gets you unlimited tea + bunny petting.
Opportunities like this do not come along every day. Don’t miss it! Partial proceeds go to supporting

03/13/2026

CommuniTEA is tonight!
Our donation-based tea party starts at 8 and goes until 10 pm, with the option to keep the teahouse open if we get enough donations.
I did 20 takes of this to get a reasonably mediocre version but I really liked the light and the backdrop.
Come sip with us!

03/12/2026

Mutton Fat Jade Porcelain 羊脂玉瓷 is a uniquely matte, translucent style of porcelain hailing from Dehua, Fujian. Dehua is China’s second porcelain city after the more famous Jingdezhen. While Jingdezhen is known for the skill of its painters, using the white porcelain as a canvas, Dehua porcelain was traditionally used for religious statuary, often without any painting or color at all.
The emphasis on sculptural art led to a refinement of the porcelain clay body itself in Dehua. The texture of the clay itself has a huge impact on how smooth, detailed, and expressive porcelain sculpture can be, and Dehua artisans honed the craft of clay mixing over centuries.
The emphasis on the unglazed and unadorned clay body makes Dehua porcelain ideal for tea ware, because the quality of the clay itself has more of a bearing on the quality of tea made in it than the decoration. Mutton Fat Jade Porcelain achieves its unique, ethereal glow from a very specific ratio of kaolin (the clay base for porcelain) with flux (an additive that changes the melting point of silica in clay).
The result is not only beautiful but is excellent for making tea. The unglazed clay holds heat well and brings out the smoothness and sweetness of tea made in it.
These exquisite wares are back in stock after a long hiatus. Sourced from Le Tao ceramics studio in Dehua, Fujian, a family-owned business who has been making Mutton Fat Jade porcelain for more than a decade. Gaiwans, teapots, travel sets, and full tea sets available now on the website.

03/10/2026

Meet our fulfillment manager Miranda. If you have ordered tea from us in the past year, then Miranda probably had something to do with it. She’s also a talented tea server and a ceramicist .ceramics
Now for the first time her work is available at the teahouse! These swirled stoneware cups are $60 (small) and $80 (medium) and are as local as you can get without Miranda physically making the cups in the teahouse.
In-store only! Each cup is one of a kind.

03/09/2026

I kept the spooky slow mo sounds for the ghost vibes.
This tea has never made me see ghosts, though that is not the case for everyone. Its made from a wild Phoenix Mountain tea plant that grows in a convoluted “vine” morph rather than like a tea or bush. It is processed by Master Lin Yaobin in a style more or less like a white tea - sun-dried and uncooked.
Spectral encounters notwithstanding, this tea has an unusual oily sweetness with notes of graham cracker and brown sugar.

03/08/2026

Happy Women’s Day!
Fun fact - Women’s Day is taken very seriously in China and it’s not uncommon for people to have the day off/for things to be closed on Women’s Day.
This photo is the matriarch of the Lu family and the (now-retired) head of the Xiang Lu Shan Heicha factory, where we get many of our Hunan Heicha including Wild Fields Tian Jian and 1990 Black Lodge Fuzhuan.
Here’s to a world where women can be safe, free, respected, and empowered. We haven’t seen it yet but if we all work together for it, we can achieve it.

03/02/2026

Last week we learned that our friend and community member Jason Patman has passed.
I knew Jason personally for the better part of a decade. He was a fixture at the teahouse, involved in numerous landscaping and construction projects at our new 7th street location including the yard, our custom slab tables, and designing and building the benches on our front porch.
Jason was a deep thinker who cared passionately about justice and the welfare of the people around him and humanity in general. He was quiet, strong, compassionate, and a hard worker. He loved nature and spent much of his time in Austin in the Greenbelt, and many of my fondest memories of our time together involve wading through creeks and going off trail. His body was found in a remote part of Utah, deep in the mountains. We don’t know much about the details of his death except that he was found in his vehicle and appears to have died from a car accident. We may never know more, but we do know that Jason died as he lived - on his own terms, motivated by his own convictions and his love of nature and freedom.
Two years ago Jason had a mental health episode that resulted in him being excluded from certain spaces in Austin. For those of you who only met him during that time, I want to share from first hand experience that his behavior during that season is not representative of who he was as a person or how he lived his life. He was a loving and honorable person who would go above and beyond to show up for his friends and his community, and he asked little to nothing in return.
The world keeps turning and life goes on for those of us who remain. The past is covered in earth and the future grows from it. Jason is forever apart of our tea house and our community, and he won’t be forgotten here. We will remember him as the man he was, beyond his ups and downs, beyond his contributions, as a unique and precious friend whose kind we will not see again.
Don’t forget to treasure those in your life while they are here, you never know when you’ll see them for the last time.
If anyone has memories, photos, videos, or stories of Jason, please share them on this post.
Journey well Jason, we love you very much.

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1715 E 7th Street
Austin, TX
78702

Opening Hours

Tuesday	10am - 10pm
Wednesday	10am - 10pm
Thursday	10am - 10pm
Friday	11am - 11pm
Saturday	11am - 11pm
Sunday	11am - 11pm

Telephone

+15128878324

Website

http://westchinatea.com/

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West China Tea has been building tea culture in Austin since 2012. We import our own tea and tea ware directly from farmers and artisans in China, and share the art of Gong Fu Cha, the Chinese tea service, in our tea house and at events around Austin. Since opening our first tea house, The Tea Spot, a 200-square-foot room in the back of Spider House, to the massive 3000-square-foot Guan Yin Tea House on I-35, our goal has been to hold space for the growth of tea culture and community.

We are excited to be opening our third tea house, West China Tea House, in the same location as our previous tea house Guan Yin - 4706 I-35, Austin, Texas, 78751, on the I-35 southbound feeder road just north of Airport.

Contact us to reserve a private tasting, or come in between 2-5 PM Sunday through Saturday for retail. You can also visit us online and order tea and teaware, as well as reserve classes and tastings, at http://www.westchinatea.com. Hosting an event in or around Austin? We can provide tea service for your small group event. Contact us to inquire.

We look forward to opening in a full capacity with CommuniTEA, dance parties, front of house service and more as soon as it is safe.