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Went a while ago and tried to ago again but it seems that they are under renovation because it has been almost a week that they are closed.There has been a spate of Tea places opening with another small joint called jrink located in Tai Hang which I shall review later.I felt that they could do with some fine improvements.★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★Earl grey chocolate tea:The presentation was impressive because it looked like a pot plant with soil foam on top.When I stirred the drink, I discovered that it was more like a hot chocolate drink than tea.At the bottom of the drink, there was yuzu jam which brought out the earl grey flavours but as you drank it the earl grey tea leaves were big and annoying because they were prickly and not soft enough for you to swallow. ★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★Scone:The scone was good because it had a nice doughy smell and taste to it just like Marks and Spencers but I was expecting cream or clotted cream and not a huge scoop of butter which is going to be wasted because no one is going to actually use a whole scoop of butter on one scone unless they have a sick fetish for butter. ★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★Choy cha:This was vegetable tea which I was really looking forward to because I love vegetable teas like Numi.If you search for Numi you will find many wonderful flavours such as broccoli tea, spinach tea, beetroot tea etc. Anyway, the vegetable tea looked promising because there was so much chopped vegetables, vermicelli and other goodies.Unfortunately, the taste was foul because it was sweet. It was the first time tasting sweet leafy vegetables.I am always raring to try new items but sweet vegetable tea is just too weird for my brave tastebuds.On the next visit I shall ask them not to sweeten it but they haven't been open for me to try it yet.★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★◎ⓢⓤⓟⓔⓡⓢⓤⓟⓔⓡⓖⓘⓡⓛ◎The bill: $12XService: OKService charge: 10%Yummy factor: still room for improvementsNapkins provided: yesToilets: noNoise levels: NoneGlass of water provided: NoEnglish Menu: YesAir Conditioning: Yes◎ⓢⓤⓟⓔⓡⓢⓤⓟⓔⓡⓖⓘⓡⓛ◎

I walked by here one day and saw the words "The Tea Academics". The design looked very similar to The Coffee Academics and I wondered ... were they the same? After a bit of research, yes, they were. The Habitu group, creator of Caffe Habitu and The Coffee Academics, famous all over Hong Kong for being the Hong Kong version of Starbucks, has started on a new concept. And that concept is tea.Tea drinking is actually getting popular in North America. When I went home to Canada a few months ago, I saw more and more tea cafes open as compared to coffee shops. Tea cafes (like David's Tea in Canada) that served tea like Starbucks. Even Starbucks was getting into the tea game with their Tazo and Teavana line. So, why this trend towards tea in North America, a continent that likes to drink coffee? Supposedly tea has several health benefits. And anything healthy drives people to go in that direction.At the moment, The Tea Academics is having a soft opening. When I arrived, it was pretty quiet. There was maybe one other person there. The layout is minimalistic. Bar table at one end. Wood tables and chairs. A few sofa chairs. Soft music played in the background to give a very zen like atmosphere.They had a soft opening menu. Unsure if this will change in the future. You could order a tea set which included food and tea.There was also hot food and desserts that use some sort of tea to create it.Their tea menu has a few interesting choices. Including something called Steampunk. Steampunk is a method of making coffee one cup at a time using an automated glass pipe siphon method. It creates only one cup of coffee. I had tried in London and thought it was interesting. Was it the best cup of coffee ever? Unsure but it was an interesting gadget. I was told by the waiter that they have decided to use this method to make tea. So, I ordered a genmaicha lychee tea by Steampunk method ($48).It arrived on a lovely oval wooden tray with a beautiful tea cup and saucer with a dainty biscuit. The tea was served in a beaker. The beaker made me think of when I was in university and we made our own beer in microbiology lab and we had to drink what we made from a beaker.The tea was a transparent green color. It was delicate with a hint of lychee. The biscuit was crunchy and not too sweet to over power the delicateness of the tea.I decided on a dessert (even though the waiter suggested I could have a croissant or a scone). But seriously, I was more interested in the dessert. I ordered a Black and White ($78). It consisted of an Earl Grey tea flavored chocolate mousse, sesame tuille, sesame sponge and yogurt espuma (which is just a fancy word for foam). Needless to say, it was beautiful to look at. Tasted good, too. There was also some chocolate crumbs as well. The Earl Grey chocolate mousse was chocolate flavored with a very faint hint of Earl Grey. It was smooth and rich. The sesame sponge was very sponge like in texture. The tuille was crunchy and so rich in sesame flavor. Mixed all together with the tart yogurt espuma, it was a great little dessert.I hope they keep this concept. I'll be back to try the other desserts and other teas as there seemed to be other interesting blends. Some they created themselves.As they are now doing a soft opening, there is no 10% service charge. There will in the future when it does it's official opening.

前幾日經過灣仔, 一看招牌有d面熟, 原來 The Tea Academics 係 Coffee Academics 啲'姐妹店', 在這裏開設首間 tea room, 雖然暫時係Soft Opening, 但今日都專程過來嚟試先試為快 ^_^一走進店舖, 予人感覺很舒服, 整潔. 這家餐廳老闆引入 世界流行的'Steampunk' 先進泡茶技術，原理同蒸餾咖啡一樣，用蒸汽泡茶，使茶味更出，芳香撲鼻。

上茶給人客時不用傳統的茶壺裝茶，而係用'beaker' 量杯裝茶, 感覺特別 ^_^店舖員工介紹食物時有禮及詳盡，據了解該店大廚原本為米芝蓮餐廳廚師, 專長為'分子料理', 份量少少又精美, 最合適各位女仕上班族 ^_^今日先試午餐 ($148 前菜+主菜+茶), Starter 前菜: Carrot and Coriander Soup 胡蘿蔔香菜湯, 味道清甜而不膩 ^_^Main Course 主菜: 慢煮多寶魚配大蔥及甜薯球 Slowcooked Turbot Fish with Braised Leek and Sweet Potatos Ball, 廚師加入海鹽在新鮮多寶魚柳魚上, 配以大蔥一齊食, 清甜不腥, 甜薯球分別以紫心蕃薯,黃心蕃薯做成, 細小像珍珠球般, 對於愛吃蕃薯的我, 似乎有點唔夠喉, 想再吃多一點呢 ^_^飯後甜品(連午餐食只加$20, 原價$42): Pistacho Hazelnut Medley 開心菓榛子蛋糕, 榛子praline cream蛋糕上 加入開心菓仁碎粒, 味道頗匹配。

飯後茶當然要試佢啲Signature Tea : Steampunk Blend 調配茶系列, 當中共有6款, 員工話最多人試係 The Tea Academics Blend 石榴洛神花普洱茶, 泡茶師 以 'Steampunk' 先進泡茶技術, 原理同蒸餾咖啡一樣, 用蒸汽泡茶, 使茶味更出, 芳香撲鼻。

上茶給人客時不用傳統的茶壺裝茶, 而係用'beaker'量杯裝茶, 感覺特別 ^_^ Dessert 共有四款: 分別為 黑與白，紅，棕，黃。

員工話最多人order及最好食係 黃'Yellow' $88 (Coconut Cream, Jasmine Glass, Jasmine Tea Sorbet, Pineapple Carpaccio, Puff Pastery) 第一眼看着這個甜品, 感覺精美, 苿莉花茶sorbet 配以新鮮菠蘿薄片, 再加上椰子cream同puff pastry, 口感層次豐富。

此外, 店內還有Muffin, Scone, Tea set 及 Dinner set, 全店總括來說值得再來試。

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