Matcha Latte

• Sencha

  Japan's everyday green tea. Steamed leaves give a fresh, grassy, slightly savoury cup. Too-hot water makes it bitter.

  🇯🇵75°1½′♨
• Dragon Well (Longjing)

  China's most famous green tea. Flat pan-fired leaves, nutty and sweet, like toasted chestnut.

  🇨🇳80°3′♨
• Matcha

  Stone-ground green tea powder whisked into water, so you drink the whole leaf. Creamy, grassy and high in caffeine.

  🇯🇵75°30″♨
• Hojicha

  Japanese green tea roasted until brown. Toasty, caramel-like and very low in caffeine, good in the evening.

  🇯🇵90°1′♨
• Jasmine Tea

  Green tea scented with fresh jasmine blossoms. Floral and light, a classic in Chinese restaurants.

  🇨🇳80°3′♨
• Silver Needle (White Tea)

  The most delicate white tea, made only from downy buds. Barely processed, pale, honeyed and soft.

  🇨🇳80°5′♨
• Yellow Tea

  A rare Chinese tea, made like green tea but gently smothered to remove grassiness. Mellow and sweet.

  🇨🇳80°3′♨
• Tieguanyin (Iron Goddess)

  A lightly oxidised, rolled oolong. Floral and creamy; the leaves open up over many steeps.

  🇨🇳90°3′♨
• Da Hong Pao (Big Red Robe)

  A roasted rock oolong from the Wuyi mountains. Toasty and mineral, with a long sweet finish.

  🇨🇳95°3′♨
• Darjeeling

  The 'champagne of teas' from the Himalayan foothills. Light for a black tea, with a fruity, floral note.

  🇮🇳90°3′♨
• Assam

  Strong, malty black tea from India's lowlands. The backbone of breakfast blends and masala chai.

  🇮🇳100°5′♨
• English Breakfast

  A robust black tea blend, usually Assam, Ceylon and Kenyan. Made to take milk and sugar.

  🇬🇧100°5′♨
• Earl Grey

  Black tea flavoured with oil of bergamot, a citrus fruit. Fragrant and bright, with or without milk.

  🇬🇧100°4′♨
• Pu-erh

  Fermented, aged tea from Yunnan. Earthy, smooth and dark. Rinse the leaves once with hot water before brewing.

  🇨🇳100°4′♨
• Masala Chai

  Indian spiced tea: black tea simmered with milk, sugar, ginger and cardamom.

  🇮🇳100°5′♨
• Matcha Latte

  Matcha whisked with a little water and topped with steamed milk. Sweet, green and mellow.

  🇯🇵75°30″♨
• London Fog

  An Earl Grey latte: tea with steamed milk and vanilla syrup. Invented in Vancouver.

  🇨🇦100°4′♨
• Bubble Tea

  Taiwanese milk tea shaken with ice and served over chewy tapioca pearls, with a wide straw.

  🇹🇼100°5′🧊
• Thai Iced Tea

  Strong spiced black tea with condensed milk over ice, famous for its orange colour.

  🇹🇭100°5′🧊
• Hong Kong Milk Tea

  Very strong black tea pulled through a cloth filter and mixed with evaporated milk. Silky and bold.

  🇭🇰100°8′♨

One plant, six kinds of tea

All true tea comes from the same plant, Camellia sinensis. What changes is how much the leaves oxidise after picking.

1. Green tea0%
2. White tea~10%
3. Yellow tea~15%
4. Oolong15–70%
5. Black tea~100%
6. Dark teafermented

What is in the cup

• Green tea
• Matcha
• Matcha froth
• Roasted green tea
• White tea
• Yellow tea
• Oolong
• Amber tea
• Black tea
• Pu-erh
• Thai tea
• Milk
• Milk foam
• Condensed milk
• Vanilla syrup
• Tapioca pearls