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Tea Club — Chinatown Soup

A tea service and tasting community, grounded in New York's Chinatown and open to anyone curious about tea as medicine. Welcome.

Come sip with us
Guests gathered at the Chinatown Soup tea bar behind the gallery

How it started

Tea in Place

The Chinatown Soup Tea Club is a natural evolution of what began in 2018, introducing our artist community and curious seekers to Tim's favorite teas at the bar, a colorful space tucked away behind our storefront gallery where artists and visitors intermingle.

Over the years, this shared experience has grown beyond casual tastings into a deeper practice, inspiring a dedicated place to explore tea as an art form and basis for making meaningful connections.

Weekly Tastings

Come sip with us

Hands offering a cup of loose leaf tea above the bar, four cups waiting below

Group Tastings

Public group tastings are offered on Sunday afternoons and select Wednesday evenings. Seating accommodates up to four guests.

Reserve
Two hands pouring from a painted gaiwan into waiting cups

1-on-1 Sessions

If you're looking for a personalized experience, you can self-organize and meet Tim at Chinatown Soup for a live, guided session.

Schedule
Teapot amid clouds

Watercolor and gouache by Yen Yen Chou

For us, tea is a medicine,
teacher, and bridge
across time and place
and to each other;
that's why we make it
part of the living
traditions
we practice.

Tea bar cat
Illustration by Kana Gray

Welcome to the club

A monthly cup, from our place to yours

We're offering a seasonal tea subscription curated by Timothy Hsu, founder of The Mandarin's Tea Room and in-house Tea Educator here at Chinatown Soup. Each quarter, you'll receive a batch of hand-selected teas — enough of each for two full sessions of Kung Fu-style brewing, a traditional method that pursues tea's full medicinal potential.

A smiling host carrying a wooden tray of pressed tea past the pink Chinatown Soup wall

Quarterly subscription

Delivery Service

A guided tea experience, from our place to yours.

$120 per quarter

  • 25 grams of each tea, good for 15–20 brews
  • Guided pairing videos every new moon
What's included

Four times a year, three loose leaf teas — 25 grams each, 15–20 brews apiece. Curated together, so the season arrives in one parcel and you brew through it at your own pace.

Enjoy a new tutorial every new moon on our YouTube channel, with Tim on temperature, steep time and what to notice. You'll have the tea in hand before each one goes up.

New subscribers start with the teas from the first two episodes — our introduction to the method. Then you join the quarterly rhythm with us.

Cancelling. Cancel from your account before your next billing date and you won't be charged for the quarter ahead. You'll still receive the quarter you've paid for. Once tea has been packed and shipped it can't be refunded or returned. If you'd like a hand, email us.

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Teaware

Brew Like We Do

A brewing set to support your at-home practice.

$65 + shipping

  • One 150ml gaiwan (serves up to four), 45% ox bone china, sourced from Fujian, China
  • Two porcelain tea cups, sourced from Japan
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A Moment in Tea

Hands offering a floral cup of fragrant tea leaves for a guest to smell at the tea table
A hand lifting the lid from a gaiwan heaped with green leaves as steam rises over waiting cups
Wooden trays of large round pressed tea cakes beside a bowl of loose green leaves
Two hands cradling a small floral cup of steaming tea
Floral-patterned bowls on a wood-slab table, one heaped with green leaves
A man sipping tea from a small painted cup
Peach-painted porcelain gaiwan on the tea table

Watch us brew

Your seat at the tea table

On our YouTube channel, we bridge a living practice with a growing community of online seekers: sharing how to brew tea as medicine, and how we approach each cup.

What we teach

Kung Fu brewing — the traditional method that makes drinking tea an embodied experience.

Live from the Tea Bar

Alongside brewing tutorials, expect tea tips, conversations, and glimpses into our teaware collection.

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Have tea, will travel

We bring the ritual to you

Whether it's grounding a yoga flow, centering a group meditation, or energizing a sonic experience, tea meets the moment wherever you are.

Please inquire