Every Saturday the first happy thought that crosses my mind is: "Today I can go Japan for an hour or so!" In fact that happens on Wednesdays too, for on that day of the week, I can decide when to work and where. No, I don't have a private jet, nor am I flight attendant with ANA (what could be great since in their first class flights they serve Sadahara Aoki pastries).
Ian and I spend our Saturdays at the Naschmarkt, Vienna's largest and most charming open-air market, and after tanking a good breakfast at Deli or Ando, some fresh vegetables, fruits and spices at our favorite Indian store owned by darling Joseph Abraham, we finish our afternoon spending a long hour at Cha-No-Ma. It is a tiny tea shop on the Faulmanngasse, just beside Nippoya, its mother shop.
Time at Cha-No-Ma time has another pace and I relax completely the moment I enter their friendly wide windowed place. The service is generous with smiles and lovely every time. I love to sit there - for hours sometimes - reading and hearing to the sound of water being poured, macha tea being whisked, delightful hundreds of "Konichiwa" being whispered - or for my ears rather "sung". Most comforting.
Ian and I spend our Saturdays at the Naschmarkt, Vienna's largest and most charming open-air market, and after tanking a good breakfast at Deli or Ando, some fresh vegetables, fruits and spices at our favorite Indian store owned by darling Joseph Abraham, we finish our afternoon spending a long hour at Cha-No-Ma. It is a tiny tea shop on the Faulmanngasse, just beside Nippoya, its mother shop.
Time at Cha-No-Ma time has another pace and I relax completely the moment I enter their friendly wide windowed place. The service is generous with smiles and lovely every time. I love to sit there - for hours sometimes - reading and hearing to the sound of water being poured, macha tea being whisked, delightful hundreds of "Konichiwa" being whispered - or for my ears rather "sung". Most comforting.
Yes, I am fan.
They serve high quality sencha and gyokuro. Also traditional macha carefully and individually prepared, of course. One can choose the chawan (tea bowl) you want your macha to be served in. So you are part of the ritual. Here is a short film Ian made the other day:
They serve high quality sencha and gyokuro. Also traditional macha carefully and individually prepared, of course. One can choose the chawan (tea bowl) you want your macha to be served in. So you are part of the ritual. Here is a short film Ian made the other day:
A Japanese Tea Shop in Vienna
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You can also have "modern" drinks like Macha Latte or Macha Smoothie, or little japanese snacks like various types of onigiri, manju, sweet pancakes as well as different kinds of miso soup.
On Wednesday afternoons I take some work with me, students' papers to be corrected, classes to be planned, books to read. I eat an onigiri or two, and sip my cups of tea thankfully. When I am lucky I still have the time to close a wonderful, tranquil afternoon by going through the pages of a thick cookbook I carried along in my shopping cart.
go there:
CHA NO MA - JAPAN TEEHAUS
Faulmanngasse 71040 Wien
Tel.: 587 94 06
mailto:06chanoma-tea@chello.at
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