About us
At the center of Chi Ki Cha is the two of us — David and Niu Niu. Doing our best to have a heartfelt experience; with ourselves, each other, and all of the elements that life presents. Allowing the heart to receive the wonder of life isn’t easy, and sometimes we fail, that’s when we have tea.
Why Chi ki Cha
Chi and Ki mean ‘life force energy’ in Mandarin and Japanese, and Cha means tea. Our roots in Chinese medicine, martial arts, and healthy living help us to appreciate and understand the subtleties that tea can offer in its energetic qualities.
Plantation
Navigating China’s vast tea industry can be daunting, even for locals. With guidance and family support, we have done the hard work for you – offering quality tea from our family’s wild growth organic tea plantation, nestled high in the mountains. Uncle’s wild growth tea gardens are leading the industry in sustainable organic wild farming practices, and are renowned for producing the finest white and red teas in China.
Mission
Chi Ki Cha is dedicated to simplifying the world of Chinese tea and making premium tea accessible to everyone. As practitioners of Chinese medicine, we take great pride in harnessing the medicinal properties of tea, and aspire to see it regain its rightful place in the Chinese materia medica.
Our passion for high-quality tea inspired the creation of Chi Ki Cha. Recognising the challenges in finding reliable sources of fine tea, we felt compelled to leverage our expertise in Chinese medicine, and our family’s tea plantations in China, to offer a unique tea experience to enthusiasts and newcomers beyond China.
Innovation
Our challenge is to offer tea drinkers a new experience of tea, through innovations in thermal brewing, aged and fermented tea processing techniques for enhanced flavour profiles, energetic qualities and medical applications. Refining the ancient practice of tea arts and culture that has developed over thousands of years, into our modern lifestyle for everyone to enjoy, is the heart of our mission.