Our journey told through tea and culture.
How to get your very own Tea Master.
Well, luckily all you need to do is meet us. But our journey is a bit more involved.
A Rite of Heritage
It helps if you have a famous and respected Chinese family name. Our name XiaHou has a history that's as long as the culture of China itself.
Its long survival wholly dependent on its heritage of nobility and service.
And it was to our advantage when it came to our passion for sharing a wealth of tea with others.
Tea as a Heritage
Back in China at mom and dad’s house tea is as common as the indoor slippers we’re required to wear. There is never a time throughout the the day that tea is not readily available.
Residing on an overly-used tea tray is a bottomless tea pot that occupies the coffee table in the living room forever loaded with leaf. Alongside it, a 3.2L thermos with a cork plug that's filled with near-boiling water.
Dad has his own tea setup next to his computer in the office as he enjoys his tea stronger than most.
In this family, tea is not a hobby, or a ceremony, or a health-related decision. It is all of these and more; it is simply a way of life.
Through sheer volume of tea consumed daily over a 60+ year span, mom and dad are tea experts by default. Mom’s favorite tea? Liu Bao was her answer without hesitation. Her strong ties to tradition and Chinese medicine showing through.
Our tea offering to you is both in honor of our love for them, and in reverence of their extensive knowledge and experience around tea.
We hope that it encourages others to make tea drinking a way of life, to be enjoyed with or without occasion and to leverage indirectly the many benefits steaming from the leaf - not as a means to an end, but rather as a happy consequence for indulging in one of nature’s greatest gifts.
And so, Here We Are
Hoping to share a more refined aspect of Asian culture directly influenced by the tea tradition.
A heritage of an honored family history - an ancestry that includes the creation of teaism as it is enjoyed today.
And a legacy of craftsmanship that shimmers in every cup, sculpting an artistic expression of refined complexity, and creating a pure confidence of centered calmness.
Yep, tea tends to have that effect ;)