Tea Orient - Your tea shop in London

Tea Orient supply a huge range of high quality teas from the Orient. We specialise in bringing you only the best tea including organic Dragon Well, Jasmine and Oolong Green Tea. Tea Orient are located right opposite Debenhams in Oxford Street, London and as well as being a fine place to come and enjoy some dim sum whilst taking some fine tea, we supply tea and tea drinking accessories via our website and shop.

The Delicate Scent of Green Tea in London

For hundreds of years, green tea has been the most widely enjoyed tea in the world. Only very recently by comparison, the popularity of green tea has grown. While green tea is both an aromatic and refreshing drink, it is the health affects that have helped to sustain its popularity in the West. Bringing this wonderful world of green tea to London, Tea Orient's Oxford Street store and tea shop supplies a great range of green teas to enrich and aid modern living.

Jasmine green tea has a light, sweet aroma and stands as the most popular of the green teas available. Jasmine green tea has a reputation of aiding digestion, hydrating the skin, and helping with weight control. Superior jasmine green tea shares the health benefits and high level of vitamin C as the standard jasmine green tea, but has a greater concentration of the distinctive aroma, bringing its own unique benefits.

Refreshing and healthy Dragon Well green teas fron London's Tea Orient

Dragon Well green tea is a well known variety of tea in China; a green tea that is both relaxing and healthy. Understood to aid the relief of stomach problems, burning fat and combat cholesterol. Dragon Well has a full flavour and aroma, appearing as a satisfying jade green. Greenish Spring green tea also shares such benefits, is high in vitamin C, lowering blood pressure and increasing the metabolism.

But for all these benefits, it is the refreshing nature of green tea as a hot drink that makes it so enjoyable. So boil the water, leave it to drop several degrees and pour. Let the flavour expand and the scent rise. Breathe deeply. And sip...

Oolong Tea Shop

Oolong tea is a type of tea which is semi-oxidised - that is it is half way between green tea (unoxidised) and black tea (fully oxidised). This means that Oolong tea gives a complex flavour to the tea drinker, with a pungent taste and lingering strength. Oolong tea can be infused many times without loss of strength, meaning that this tea is both flavoursome and economical.

Puer Black Tea

Puer black tea (or Pu-ehr black tea) is a variety of tea made from an especially large leafed variety of tea plant. This type of tea can be produced and kept for many years after harvesting, meaning that Puer tea can be classified by vintage, almost like fine wine, with older vintages taking on subtle flavours as they age. Puer black tea is prized by many for it's flavour, with speculators on the tea markets targetting some of the older vintages for future resale at higher prices.

Jasmine Green Tea Online

Tea Orient offer a high quality range of jasmine green tea, all available online via this website. The subtle and flavoursome jasmine green tea blend is a favourite of many who appreciate the bountiful aroma of this tea, which combines the healthy properties of green tea with the bouquet of the jasmine flower.

Green Tea

Green tea is a type of tea made with leaves of Camellia sinensis tea plant that have undergone minimal oxidation during processing for cunsumption. The consumption of green tea originated in China and has become associated with many cultures in Asia from Japan to the Middle East.

The availability and consumption of green tea has become more widespread in the West, where black (fully oxidised) tea is traditionally consumed. Many different varieties of green tea have been created in countries where it is grown. These varieties can differ substantially due to variable growing conditions, processing and harvesting time and the addition of different ingredients such as jasmine flowers into the final product.

In recent decades, green tea has been subjected to many scientific and medical studies to determine the extent of its reported health benefits, with some evidence suggesting regular green tea drinkers may have lower chances of heart disease and developing certain types of cancer.

Green tea has reported benefits as being useful for fat loss. Although these claims are difficult to substantiate, the demographic of regular green tea cosumers suggests that regular consumption is a good way to control excess body fat in conjunction with the usual mix of a healthy diet and regular excercise.

"In a study performed at Birmingham (UK) University, it was shown that average fat oxidation rates were 17% higher after ingestion of green tea Extract than after ingestion of a placebo. Similarly the contribution of fat oxidation to total energy expenditure was also significantly higher by a similar percentage following ingestion of green tea extract. This implies that ingestion of green tea extract can not only increase fat oxidation during moderately intensive exercise but also improve insulin sensitivity and glucose tolerance in healthy young men." taken from the Wikipedia article on the subject, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_tea

Cast Iron Teapots

Tea Orient have a great range of authentic, specially imported cast iron teapots which are the perfect brewing partner for all of your green teas, red teas, white teas and of course black teas. Available in a large variety of designs and colours, our ranges of cast iron tea pots are both solid and decorative, helping to make your teabreak more of an occasion. You can find our range of cast iron tea pots by either searching our online store or calling into our well stocked premises off Oxford Street, London.