Mid-Autumn Guide: 6 Best Tea Brands in Singapore for Your Perfect Mooncakes Pairing
The best thing about tea is its overarching simplicity. It is light and comforting and can be paired with even the mooncake.
The pleasant aroma and subtle sweetness of the tea, together with a fresh bite of mooncake, is the perfect exciting foodgasm for your palate, especially on a cool Mid-Autumn night.
Below is a curated list of the best tea collections in Singapore for that flawless mooncake pairing.
1. The 1872 Clipper Tea Co.
The 1872 Clipper Tea Co. is Singapore’s oldest tea producer, blender and retailer. A heritage tea brand focused on providing fresh and high-quality tea products through exciting customer experiences at an affordable price.
The creation of The 1872 Clipper Tea Co., whose name pays tribute to the historic Clipper ships that raced to carry chests of the freshest teas to all corners of the world, at the same time acknowledging the year they planted their roots in Singapore.
Today, their blends are widely appreciated for its consistency in quality, signature aroma and refined taste.
This Mid-autumn Festival, they proud to partner with Pulse Patisserie for a once in a blue moon collaboration, pairing 4 handcrafted mooncakes with their exquisite teas housed in a tea book.
Shop Now: https://clippertea.com.sg/collections/collections
Contact: 6509 8745
Email: [email protected]
Main Store: 2 Orchard Turn #B4-07, Singapore 238801
Counters: https://clippertea.com.sg/pages/retail-locations
2. TWG Tea
TWG Tea’s collection is the largest in the world, with fine harvests from every tea producing country and exclusive handcrafted tea blends. Internationally recognized as a true innovator with the creation of new varieties of tea every season.
Illuminating the sky like a myriad of flickering candles, the Sky Lantern Tea brings an abundance of cheer and good fortune this bountiful season. Imparting notes of ripe black cherry and pale rose petals, this exquisite green tea blend releases an ethereal aroma as crisp as an autumn night and as enduring as love itself.
Pair this marvellous green tea with a seasonal line-up of handcrafted traditional baked and snow skin mooncakes in eight inspiring flavours.
Shop Now: https://twgtea.com/all-gifts
Contact: 6733 7997
Email: [email protected]
Store Locations: https://twgtea.com/locations/asia-pacific/singapore
3. Gryphon Tea Company
Gryphon Tea Company traces its origins to a family-owned tea importer founded in Singapore almost 100 years ago. In 2006, a fourth-generation member of the family struck out on his own and the company quickly gained a following for its maverick ideas and heady enthusiasm.
Gryphon Tea’s growing selection of tea recipes has received numerous industry awards and is now available to consumers worldwide through online shopping and their network of dedicated distribution partners.
Try out their fragrant Pearl of The Orient Tea-Infused Jelly Mooncake Recipe and surprise your loved ones with some handmade-with-love Mid-Autumn treat that is wallet-friendly yet equally delish!
Shop Now: https://www.gryphontea.com/collections/
Email: [email protected]
Store Locations: https://www.gryphontea.com/store-locator/
4. Tilly Tea
TILY’s raw tea blends are truly unique, balancing traditional Chinese herbal roots with delicious florals. Importantly, TILY believes in respecting the source of their foods and seek to bring you the best quality ingredients that nature has to offer.
All-natural, with no added flavourings or extracts, each ingredient is carefully selected and combined for its healing properties, while infusing gentle wellness into your everyday.
This Mid-Autumn Festival, gift friends and family a beautiful statement pack with an assortment of 22 sachets across their 5 tea blends within!
Complete with a matching carry bag, this is the most elegant and healthiest gift of the season that is the perfect compliment to mooncakes and Mid-Autumn goodies!
Shop Now: https://tilytea.com/collections
Email: [email protected]
5. ETTE Tea Company
Established in 2014, ETTE TEA COMPANY is a contemporary tea brand specializing in tea blends with Singapore and South-East Asian nuances.
Starting with the original Pandan Chiffon tea out of a home kitchen-ette, they now offer an exceptional collection of tea and tea blends to cafes & restaurants.
Tea blending comes first at ETTE TEA with the focus on palate experimentation; balancing tea with other ingredients to form a unique product. Combining the heritage and tradition of tea with modern and classic design, they aim to make cool tea blends and presents fine single-origin teas to aficionados everywhere.
The 床前明月光 (literal translation “Moonlight in front of the bed”) collection is their latest creation for the Mid-Autumn Festival. It is inspired by the most famous Chinese poem in the world, 静夜思 (Quiet Night Thoughts) by Li Bai.
It represents a collection of teas that helps soothe our longing with nostalgia and hope of reunion.
Shop Now: https://www.ettetea.com/collections/featurette
Contact: 6908 5354 / 9012 7600
Email: [email protected]
Main Store: 333 Kreta Ayer Rd #03-25, Singapore 080333
6. The Tea Story
Singapore’s exceptionally luxurious tea brand recognised globally for its exquisite range of organic loose leaf teas with the aim to provide healthy and caffeine-free floral and fruit teas as the preferred choice.
At The Tea Story, loose leaf teas are preferred due to its rich and smooth flavour as they release fewer tannins, as compared to finely grounded teas that contain a mixture of teas rather than a pure tea itself.
As a result, their teas can be consistently enjoyed over a period of time without any change in its flavour nor aroma!
Everything you need this Mid-Autumn Festival with their exclusive collaboration with Polar Puffs & Cakes! Find the best pairing for their handcrafted traditional & snow skin mooncakes and the luxury teas – White Jasmine blend & caffeine-free Melon Sorbet blend.
Shop Now: https://www.theteastory.co/shop
Contact: 6909 5933 / 8111 1786
Email: [email protected]
Address: Oxley BizHub 1, 65 Ubi Road 1, #02-53, Singapore 408729
Tea is an act complete in its simplicity. When I drink tea, there is only me and the tea. The rest of the world dissolves.
– Thich Nhat Hank.
With the perfect cup of tea to match those mooncakes, the Mid-Autumn celebrations will surely be tea-riffic!
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