Our Phuket teahouse tea and coffee shop and cafe in Bangtao offers only organically and sustainably grown 
loose black and green Thai tea which that are both grown and hand picked in Northern Thailand. Visitors and locals can taste and buy bags of our very own branded La QingTing Thailand tea in our Phuket teahouse shop and cafe, which is located at the Bangtao Beach Bar & Café in-between Bang Tao, Cherngtalay, Surin and Laguna beach on Phuket.
We also offer a selection of great tasting and sustainably grown local Thai loose tea (Not tea bags) for our hot and iced tea’s. Another option we offee is our iced teas can also be made with our very own hand-made Phuket Water Kefir, and will offer a daily healthy probiotic immune system boost.
Our Phuket tea uses deforestation friendly concept to halt biodiversity and ecosystems loss, and is also hand picked by local small hold farmers in the North of Thailand.
Phuket Loose Black Tea
Our Phuket teahouse tea is full-bodied 100% black tea, which is whole-leaf and fully oxidized. It produces the strongest tea made to drink black with mint or with milk. We also use this tea for our healthy Water Kefir iced teas.
Phuket Loose Green Tea
Our forest-friendly loose green tea is organically grown single origin, handpicked, and produced in the mountains of Northern Thailand.
Along with offering our guests our green loose tea by cup or in takeaway 200g bags we also make our very our bespoke blend of green tea mixed and blended with tropical fruit and herbs to make our very own unque flavours including watermelon, roselle, apple, mango, pineapple, papaya, mint, lemongrass and coconut, offering a refreshing taste of Phuket and Thailand.
Thai Loose Tea Vs Tea Bags
Loose leaf tea is generally considered healthier than tea bags because it offers a more concentrated extract of essential oils and nutrients, leading to potentially stronger health benefits. Tea bags, while still offering health benefits, may be lower quality and not fully extract these compounds. Most big branded tea bag companies also use plastic, primarily in the form of a heat-seal that keeps the bag closed. This plastic is often polypropylene (PP) or polyethylene (PE), used to create the barrier. While some brands use plant-based plastics like PLA ( microplastics ), the issue is the presence of plastic overall. Follow this link to read up on loose tea health benefits vs tea bags in Phuket
Thailand & Phuket Reforestation
The history of deforestation in northern Thailand is not necessarily connected to tea. Many mountains, hills and areas were removed of their green forests before 
tea was an option, when opium was the main product growing here and other monocrops such as corn, rubber and pineapple needed area to grow and create an income for the farmers. We do not simply see the Forest Friendly concept as a way to protect already existing forests but also as a way to put forest back.
We encourage tea farmers to initiate reforestation efforts. We can negotiate and provide a monetary incentive for tea producers to start investing in reforestation operations, and so far we have put back two thousand trees of 50 different species in the mountains of Northern Thailand.
So even if the forest is not there yet in some of our tea sights, it will be in 50 years when the work we’re putting in now will start to show. Through our sustainable business model we have a way of creating a better world for future generations of tea lovers and tea farmers.
For Phuket island, from 2002 to 2022, Phuket lost 387 ha of humid primary forest, making up 5.1% of its total tree cover loss in the same time period. The total area of humid primary forest in Phuket decreased by 4.6% in this time period.
Saying this, there are a few good willed locals and expats trying to set up eco friendly and reforestation projects, but unfortunately there are also bigger companies just using it as a marketing ploy to make them look good in their naïve customers eyes, and basically have no teeth to make any sort of impact.
You can read more by going to our Eco Friendly Phuket page.
Thailand Sustainable Tea Development Goals
In 2015, the United Nations issued 17 Sustainable Development Goals to achieve sustainable development for all.
United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 15: “protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss”.
Our mission with our partners and La QingTing Phuket is to protect the forests
and biodiversity of Northern Thailand by giving tea farmers and forests value through the selling of our tea. We can do this because we use the native tea plant species that has been growing naturally in Northern Thailand for thousands of years. By growing tea together with its natural habitat, we can preserve the biodiversity and help reduce the effects of the global carbon footprint.
The massive global market allows us to use this natural tea plant as a tool for generating income to turn the farmers and their communities into protectors of the forest. We make it our responsibility to sell only Forest Friendly grown tea, and provide all farmers with sustainable income and our end-consumers with a sustainable product.
By our customers buying and drinking our tea at the ‘Bangtao Beach Bar & Café’ it is now contributing to over 12 of the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals, and helping the reforestation of Northern Thailand.
Alternatively, try one of our healthy Phuket coffee shop ice coffees or teahouse tea made with our very own Phuket Water Kefir and local Thai brewed coffee or loose tea (Not tea bags) that have both been hand picked in the North of Thailand.
If you are living or just visiting Phuket, Thailand then make a trip to La QingTing ( Bangtao Beach Bar & Café ) for your Immunity morning boosting Phuket smoothie smoothie, a locally grown tea or coffee (Hot or Iced), a noodle or curry meal, or just to sit, chillout and have a chilled beer or one of our Phuket wines.
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