Tea Therapy

This place is an absolute gem. I cannot stress this enough. I visited this cafe on Children's Day after visiting a Hello Kitty exhibition. My friend and I were looking for a cafe that served food as we had not yet eaten lunch. I could see some people eating food from the doorway of the cafe so we decided to go in which was the best decision we could have made. Unfortunately their lunch time finishes at 2pm which is about the time that we entered the cafe. The exhibition was in a different part of town which is why we were searching for a place to eat lunch that late. The kind girls working behind the counter said that they could make some sandwiches as it was just only 2pm but that the time for serving hot food had finished. My friend asked if they had sandwiches without meat as I'm a vegetarian and they said that it wasn't on the menu but that they could make some. Whilst we were perusing the menu one of the girls mentioned there was in fact one portion of vegetable curry left so I ordered that and my friend suddenly decided she wanted something sweet so she ordered a papbingsoo. I also ordered a seasonal fruit tea and a pot of todays tea (which was date tea) came free with our food.


A photo of our table full of food and tea

The cafe sell jars of Yuja (citron) tea, Ginger tea, Jujube (date) tea to name just a few. They also sell packets of weightloss tea, tea to combat stress and so on.

The girls also brought us a basket to put our bags in so that we didn't have to put our bags on the floor. After we had finished our food and drinks we asked if we could put our bags behind the counter and we went to use the free foot baths outside the cafe. There are 3 basins where you can soak your feet in either hot or cold water. We were also allowed to bring our free pot of date tea that we hadn't finished yet outside by the foot baths. Lot's of passers by came to talk to us to see how they too could have a go at the foot baths so we told them just go in the cafe and buy a drink! Lots of curious children came to see what was going as well.

I didn't get any photographs of myself in the foot bath but I took some photographs of the actual foot baths after I got out.

The curry and the tea only came to 13,500 won which I thought was very reasonable by Samcheongdong standards and in general. The curry was a good size portion and came with miso soup as well. The service in this cafe was impeccable. The girls were so kind and nothing was too much for them. I can't speak highly enough of this place. I definitely want to visit this cafe again.

The girls enjoying a well deserved break

How to get there: Anguk Station, Exit 1, turn right out of Exit 1 and you will see a Starbucks. Between Starbucks and Amandier there is a little road (not the main road that everyone thinks of when they think of Samcheongdong but this also leads to Samcheongdong). Keep walking until the end of the road, there is a fork at the end of the road, go right and walk for another few minutes and Tea Therapy will be on your right.


Add: Tea Therapy
Haengrang
(Their business card didn't seem to have the full address. Sorry folks!)


(There is another branch in Gangnam. The add for that one is: Ago Building 1F, 616-6 Sinsa-dong, Gangnam-gu, Seoul, 135-894. Tel: 02-518-7506 or 02-518-7507)

Tel: 02-730-7507

Opening hours: Monday-Sunday 10am-10pm
Lunch hours: 11am-2pm

Website: www.teatherapy.co.kr