Additional notes: This one is still a delicious darj. I really wanted to place a smaller Lochan order, but I just can’t right now. I have so much tea at the moment, even if I have one teaspoon left of everything (I don’t) it’s still a lot of tea. I just counted and there are at least 62 teas that will next be sipdowns (I have a sipdown list.) So I’m on tea buying hiatus (though I usually try to be all the time) except for an eventual purchase of teas from Ost. Even though I wanted to buy a few favorites from Tealux, Zen, Steep City (though they seem to be MIA)… I’m trying not to think of any others!
ETA: And Justea! It’s so sad that so many of my favorite tea shops on my favorites list are gone now. Many of them folded this year. :/ Not a good year for tea I guess?
I think we are all in the same place stash wise! >_<
Maybe that is why so many tea shops have folded? Tea fanatics already have so much that they try not to buy more? I know I can only drink so much tea. :D
Zen Tea is still around: http://www.zentealife.com/
Justea too : http://justea.com/
Steep City’s website is up and running…. http://www.steepcityteas.com/
I know a lot have closed but maybe not as many as you had feared ?
Oh I know Justea is still open. I guess it looked like I lumped that with the others. But it seems like Zen doesn’t have updates really and I’ve tried to send Steep City e-mails in the past and they aren’t answering. Also no updates.
I just looked on Zentealife.com’s facebook and they did post on that a few days ago, so they are still around. Just haven’t seen updates to their tea selection as much. Updating my main post.