Great Wall Tea Co
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With over 150 types of delicious, flavourful tea from all over the world, our amazing tea selection is always growing and leafy fresh. Come and experience our great wall of tea for the absolute best selection at our very unique modern tea bar.

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  • Tea House,

Languages Spoken

  • English,
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109-810 Quayside Dr, New Westminster, BC V3M 6B9
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  • < $10,

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Meet the owner

Lauren Bowler, owner of Great Wall Tea Co., was never much of a coffee drinker. “I experimented with coffee as a teenager, and it always made me sick,” she says. “Which was kind of heartbreaking, because in my family I come from a long line of super-committed, many-espressos-per-day type people.”

She didn’t discover the world of tea until university, when her mother sent her a bag of genmaicha (a Japanese green tea with roasted brown rice) and some “straight-up plain rooibos.” It was a moment of hot-beverage redemption. No stomach pains, no jitters, just pure pleasure. She was hooked. Successive trips to Southeast Asia and Japan fanned the flame, and her love of tea merged with her passion for community when the Great Wall Tea Co. opened in December of 2010, serving hot tea by the cup as well as bulk loose-leaf tea.

“I spent a lot of time at the Granville Island Tea Company and what stood out for me was the connection among strangers sitting around having tea,” she says. “For us it was very intentional to have a place where you sidle up to the bar and say, ‘Hey barkeep, I’ll have a cup of …’ and then meet new people. It’s like a pub that way.”

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