Tea house map
Bookable picking, making, tasting and hands-on sessions, pinned on a map. Concentrated around Maokong for now, spreading to other districts.
Hanser Tea House4
Maokong's first certified-organic tea garden, run by a sixth-generation grower. The owner is a long-time vegetarian; vegetarian meals are served.
116臺北市文山區指南里指南路三段40巷6號
Make black tea from leaf to cup and find out how much work it takes. Take home about 50 g of your own tea. 60 min
Walk the organic garden, learn the tea plant and the life around it, take home about 50 g. 90 min
The simplest way in — proof that brewing well does not have to be complicated. 30 min
Seal a wish into a jar of Muzha Tieguanyin, the way families bury wine for a newborn. Time, warmth and damp will change it. 60 min
Chenxi Tea House2
The owner is a great-great-grandson of Zhang Naimiao, who brought Tieguanyin to Muzha. The garden sits on the slope in front.
116臺北市文山區指南里指南路三段34巷53號
Taste three Tieguanyin in competition cups the way judges do, then brew one gongfu-style and compare what changed. 40 min
Same tasting, with tea sweets included. 40 min
Meijia Tea Garden6
Ten generations of tea making, now run by twin siblings. The first restaurant in Maokong to cook with tea, and the widest range of workshops here.
116臺北市文山區指南路三段38巷19號
Hat on, basket on your back, and find the perfect bud-and-two-leaves. 60 min
Pick, wither, fire, roll — the whole day of a tea farmer, ending with your own tea to take home. 120 min
Stem the leaf, then roll it by hand until it curls — including the cloth-ball rolling that is close to being lost. 60 min
Local tea plus dried fruit — find your ratio and take two sachets home. 120 min
Five local teas, judged the way competitions do it: colour, aroma, taste. 120 min
Full set of tools, and the whole sequence from first pour to last cup. 60 min
Uncle Well Tea3
A three-storey glass tea house converted from a working factory; the organic garden faces the gondola station.
116臺北市文山區指南里指南路三段40巷36號
Walk the rows and see what the plant actually needs — and what a Muzha tea hill looks like up close. 60 min
The maker talks through each step, you roll the leaf yourself, and you watch how each stage changes the aroma. 120 min
Four Taiwanese teas in standard competition cups, brewed identically — the differences stop being subtle. 60 min
Shuang Hsiang Yuan1
The owner used to be a pastry chef at a well-known bakery, and turned that into a Tieguanyin pineapple cake.
116臺北市文山區指南里指南路三段38巷33之6號
Make the owner's own Tieguanyin pineapple cakes, with tea alongside. 90 min
Yaoyue Tea House
116臺北市文山區指南里指南路三段40巷6號
Golden Basin Tea Garden
116臺北市文山區指南里指南路三段40巷12-1號
Master Ayi's Big Teapot
116臺北市文山區指南路三段38巷37之1號1樓
Qingquan Square
116臺北市文山區指南路三段38巷33之1號對面山坡
Zhengda Tea Garden
116臺北市文山區指南里指南路三段38巷33-5號
Prime Dew Tea Garden
116臺北市文山區指南里指南路三段38巷33-1號 1F
Red Wood House
116臺北市文山區指南里指南路三段38巷33號 B1–B2
Guanding Tea Garden
116臺北市文山區指南里指南路三段38巷16號
Minggong Tea Making
116臺北市文山區指南路三段38巷18號
Sunyang Tea House
116臺北市文山區指南里指南路三段38巷16-2號1樓
Liujixiang Tea House
116臺北市文山區指南里指南路三段34巷53號之1
Caigeng Tea Making
116臺北市文山區老泉里老泉街45巷36號
Hongzhi Tea Farm
116臺北市文山區指南里指南路三段38巷21號
Chang Hsieh Shing Tea
116臺北市文山區萬興里指南路二段93號
Maokong Leisure Farming Area11
The gateway for the whole Maokong tea area. These experiences are not run by any single shop but coordinated by the area association, and they are the most varied on the hill — sealing tea, leaf printing, walking into the potholes.
116臺北市文山區指南里指南路三段40巷8之2號
Write a letter, a line, a wish — and post it with a portion of Maokong Tieguanyin, to someone far away or to yourself. 60 min
Brush a wish onto rice paper, seal it into a jar with the leaf, and let time work. Open it a year later, see how far you got, and drink the tea. 60 min
Rare red-heart Tieguanyin, heavily fermented and cloth-rolled the old way, then jar-aged for more than twenty years. 60 min
A tea master pours for you and explains as they go. By the end you can brew a pot like someone who knows what they are doing. 60 min
A full day of international-standard sensory evaluation with a tea master: six teas, judged by sight, smell and taste. Everyone reads the aromas differently. 360 min
A guided walk through how tea is made, then roll the leaf into a ball with your own hands. 60 min
Make a radish cake with Tieguanyin folded into it. 60 min
Tieguanyin and soy milk, churned on the spot. 60 min
Fold tea powder into steamed glutinous rice, then knead and pull until it is springy and does not stick. 60 min
Like stamping: hammer the raised veins of a leaf onto cloth or paper. 60 min
Walk to the potholes that gave Maokong its name. Plenty of life around them, and a good place to picnic in summer. 60 min
Wenshan Leisure Farm1
Run by the New Taipei farmers' association, with an old baozhong factory still standing on site.
新北市新店區湖子內路100號
Tianran Tea House1
A tea-making family up the hill in Xizhi; black tea in summer.
新北市汐止區汐碇路380巷30號
A-San-Ge Farm1
A farm above Tamsui working with tea seed, from the tree to the table.
新北市淡水區樹興里樹林口1-3號
Yutai Tea Factory1
Four generations of the Zeng family in the Kengzixi farming area, who turned a sideline into the work.
桃園市蘆竹區山林路三段453-1號
Little Leaf Farm
A Longtan tea factory that became a tea shop, now run by the Ye sisters.
桃園市龍潭區富華街三林段625號
Taoqi Small Farm
A young tea grower in Xinshe who packs the family's tea into bags to sell as gifts.
臺中市新社區中興街154-1號
HOHOCHA1
A Japanese-style black tea centre on Highway 21, built around Sun Moon Lake black tea.
南投縣魚池鄉魚池街443-36號
Hugosum Tea Estate
A black tea estate on Xiangcha Lane in Yuchi, part of the Sun Moon Lake revival.
南投縣魚池鄉新城村香茶巷5號
Tea Study in the Hills
In Lugu, home of Dong Ding oolong, teaching tea as something you can study.
南投縣鹿谷鄉中正一路336號
Linyuan Tea1
A tea factory in the Shizhuo area of Alishan, around 1,500 metres.
嘉義縣竹崎鄉中和村石棹19-57號
Yuyupas1
A Tsou cultural park at 1,300 metres; the tea house is one part of it.
嘉義縣阿里山鄉樂野村4鄰127-2號
Cha San Dai Tea Works
Ruili in Meishan, the back garden of Alishan. The name says third generation.
嘉義縣梅山鄉瑞里村5鄰89號
Xinyuan Tea
Xinfa in Liugui, one of the main areas for Taiwan's native mountain tea.
高雄市六龜區新發里和平路43號
Xingyuan Tea Garden5
An organic garden in the Zhongshan farming area, now in its third generation, making suxin and honey-scented black tea.
宜蘭縣冬山鄉中山村中城路115號
Xiangyu Organic Farm1
Also in the Zhongshan farming area, working in organic green tea.
宜蘭縣冬山鄉中城路173號
Eshan Tea Garden1
A prize-winning spring tea garden; they have been making tea-smoked eggs for fifteen years.
宜蘭縣冬山鄉中山村中山五路3號
Chikeshan Tianxin Tea1
Chikeshan is known for its daylily fields; it grows tea as well.
花蓮縣玉里鎮觀音里高寮280-5號
Ba han han non
In Ruisui, home of honey-scented black tea. Four generations here, and coffee too.
花蓮縣瑞穗鄉中正南路二段74-4號
Jiafang Leisure Farm1
An organic tea garden near Chulu Ranch, growing tea since 1979.
臺東縣卑南鄉明峰村牧場72-4號
Biluoyuan Tea House1
Red oolong country in the East Rift Valley — the site documents a Luye red oolong too.
臺東縣鹿野鄉龍田村北三路358號
Dayou Tea Garden1
A garden up on Jinzhen Mountain in Taimali, off Highway 9.
臺東縣太麻里鄉大王村17鄰192號
Xinyuanchang Black Tea Museum
A third-generation Luye family who kept their old machinery and turned it into a museum.
臺東縣鹿野鄉永安路451號