Sipping Streams Tea Company

Your Source For Loose Leaf Tea, Tisanes/Herbals, Tea Accessories and Tea Education

We have all sorts of new items in the tea house and online. From traditionally bound Japanese Rice paper journals to Matcha and accessories. Come in and check out the new selection!

"A Steampunk Tea"

Thanks to all who participated in the Steampunk Tea, it was a huge success!

Tea House

Mon - Thurs 9:30 am - 9:00 pm

Fri - Sat 9:30 am - 10:00 pm

Remember, we have FREE Wi-Fi

Downstairs of Wok 'N Roll by Guilliver's Books

3535 College Rd Lower Suite B

(907) 457-1660

Happy Chinese New Year

and

Happy Valentine's Day

Only Friday, February 12 - Saturday, February 13

We have a special Valentine's Dessert Menu

And Chinese Dim Sum Menu

The World of Tea

Tea is only just beginning to become popular to the whole world. Only about six million acres of the world make up all the tea patches. That is not even a twentieth of the area used to make wine. There are hundreds of different types of teas. 1/3 of the tea consumed in the USA comes from Argentina, some of the worst possible tea. That is about thirty thousand tons of tea.

India has become the country with the most tea in the world. Britain has gone down to having less then 10% of all the tea in the world. It used to buy 50% of the tea in the world. Germany drinks 1/7 as much tea as Britain, but pays the same amount for its tea. This is simply because Germany's tea is better. Worldwide tea production averages perhaps three billion pounds. That is only half a pound of tea per person per year. All the tea in China was once classified by the Imperial Tea Bureau, whose job never ended since with the constant addition of new teas, their classification system became progressively more complicated, resembling a vast Chinese puzzle. China is to tea, what France is to wine.

-James
Tea Associate
Frontier High School
Grade 9