Mushroom Tea Ceremony

Ninety minutes at the world's first mushroom tea house, guided cup by cup.

You sit at a rammed earth bar in a room with pink lime plaster walls, and a tea master pours for you. Four teas, each paired with a mushroom chosen to meet it. Silver Needle to open, then Tie Guan Yin, Da Hong Pao, and Hojicha to close. The pairings are not decoration. Cordyceps stabilises a young green tea and makes it taste like honey. Reishi finds the herbal note hiding in a twenty year old Pu'er. You taste each one on its own first, then together, and the difference is the lesson.

Along the way you learn where each mushroom grows, what it does in the body, and why we extract it the way we do. Ask anything. This is the room where we answer properly, without a label to fit it on.

What to expect

• Ninety minutes, unhurried
• Four teas, each paired with a functional mushroom
• Guided by a tea master, cup by cup
• Tasting notes to take with you
• Small groups, up to six people

Good to know

• Two sittings each morning, 9:00 and 10:30, seven days a week
• Book for one person or for a group of up to six
• No experience needed. Curiosity is the only requirement.
• Nothing here is psychoactive. These are functional mushrooms, not psilocybin.

18 Sirimangkalajarn Soi 5, Chiang Mai.