Cha Dao Tea Company
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Cha Dao Tea Company is a Seattle-based beverage company that brews and bottles fresh, refrigerated ready-to-drink tea
s. Cha Dao was founded by Singaporean-born Ghim-Sim Chua. The focus of the company is to provide fresh, healthy teas in ready to drink bottles for the natural foods industry. Unlike many other beverage companies, Cha Dao manufactures and bottles all of its own tea at its Seattle factory.
The line-up of beverages include: High-Mountain Oolong
, Green Sencha
, Herbal Chrysanthemum
, Jasmine
Green, and Yin Yang, a blend of black tea
and black coffee
.
CHA DAO is pronounced Cha-Dow and means The Way of Tea in Mandarin Chinese.
Tea
Tea is an aromatic beverage prepared by adding cured leaves of the Camellia sinensis plant to hot water. The term also refers to the plant itself. After water, tea is the most widely consumed beverage in the world...
s. Cha Dao was founded by Singaporean-born Ghim-Sim Chua. The focus of the company is to provide fresh, healthy teas in ready to drink bottles for the natural foods industry. Unlike many other beverage companies, Cha Dao manufactures and bottles all of its own tea at its Seattle factory.
The line-up of beverages include: High-Mountain Oolong
Oolong
Oolong is a traditional Chinese tea produced through a unique process including withering under the strong sun and oxidation before curling and twisting. Most oolong teas, especially those of fine quality, involve unique tea plant cultivars that are exclusively used for particular varieties...
, Green Sencha
Sencha
Sencha is a Japanese green tea, specifically one made without grinding the tea leaves. The word "sencha" means "decocted tea," referring to the method that the tea beverage is made from the dried tea leaves...
, Herbal Chrysanthemum
Chrysanthemum
Chrysanthemums, often called mums or chrysanths, are of the genus constituting approximately 30 species of perennial flowering plants in the family Asteraceae which is native to Asia and northeastern Europe.-Etymology:...
, Jasmine
Jasmine
Jasminum , commonly known as jasmines, is a genus of shrubs and vines in the olive family . It contains around 200 species native to tropical and warm temperate regions of the Old World...
Green, and Yin Yang, a blend of black tea
Black tea
Black tea is a variety of tea that is more oxidized than the oolong, green, and white varieties.All four varieties are made from leaves of the shrub Camellia sinensis. Black tea is generally stronger in flavor and contains more caffeine than the less oxidized teas. Two principal varieties of the...
and black coffee
Coffee
Coffee is a brewed beverage with a dark,init brooo acidic flavor prepared from the roasted seeds of the coffee plant, colloquially called coffee beans. The beans are found in coffee cherries, which grow on trees cultivated in over 70 countries, primarily in equatorial Latin America, Southeast Asia,...
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CHA DAO is pronounced Cha-Dow and means The Way of Tea in Mandarin Chinese.