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You know instantly when a place is the one. It mostly just feels like relief. Relief from a long day of walking and talking and looking. Relief and instant comfort. This is a place where you can sit and relax with a pot of tea (or ice tea in this heat) and no-one will bother you, or if they do, it's only to bring fig and ginger scones with home made jams and a little pot of butter and what's the harm in that? It's tiny but you prefer the word intimate. It's has a small menu but you prefer the term perfectly formed. Why bother with all the bells and whistles when the idea is right and true in the first place? 

Maybe I'm getting silly in my old age. But this kind of place is somewhere we don't have enough of in Sydney. Places that serve tea and cake and not much else, that invite you to stay forever, that are filled with flowers and wide smiles and calico aprons tied twice with a bow. Eating in Sydney has become a bit of a free for all. We constantly, tirelessly search out the next-big-thing so we can instagram it and hashtag it and be proud that we made it there first before anyone else. Sure, you instagram in a quiet little place like this (I mean, look at those flowers!), but that's not the point. A place like this is a step away from the machinations of our food obsession, it's a step to the side and down a little somewhere a little more off-the-beaten track. It's trendy, of course it's trendy. But again that's not the point. It's just right. It's exactly what you need. It's a place to drink in the world, and a slow-brewed chai drunk with ginger and spices. It's a place you know instantly is the one but, like all good, true things, you might spend your whole life looking for. At least now you've found it you know where to keep coming back to.

Teakha, Shop B, 18 Tai Ping Shan Street, Sheung Wan, Hong Kong

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