Beautiful Tea Museum in Insadong

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Beautiful Tea Museum, Seoul, Korea

Beautiful Tea Museum

The Beautiful Tea Museum

This renovated Korean house is very open and flowing. This multipurpose space has a lot happening in it, but it doesn’t feel cramped. There is a tea shop in the front, in the back they have pottery or art displayed, and the center has many tables for enjoying tea. Their tea collection is for the novice or for the connoisseur. They have coffee and green tea lattes as well. The stand out teas here is their collection of pu-er teas (oxides black teas). Here you can get a 20 year-old tea for only 12 dollars, but if you want to spurge you can get the fifty year old tea for only 42 dollars. If you are hungry, they offer waffles, shaved ice desserts and rice cake. This is a great place to rela with friends catching up.

Jongno-gu 5 Insadong 9-gil 193-1
02-735-6678

Korean Tea Set at Beautiful Tea Museum in Seoul, Korea

The Inner Garden at the Beautiful Tea House

About the Author

Daniel

Daniel Gray is a Korean adoptee that returned to Korean in 2005 because he wanted to try and find his birth mother and to learn about Korean culture. He started a restaurant review blog in 2007, www.seouleats.com, that became a local and international hit. He and his blog has been featured in the New York Times, Monocle Magazine, The Kimchi Chronicles, Bizarre Foods, Rudy Maxa, Olive Magazine, Euronews and much more. He now is a partner at O’ngo Food Communications (www.ongofood.com), which is a culinary tourism and consulting company that offers Korean cooking classes and restaurant tours to travelers. Their food tours and cooking classes are ranked as one of the top attractions in Seoul according to tripadvisor.