Get swea-tea in Shanghai (2)

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Hong Kong-based Hung Fook Tong offers an assortment of herbal teas. (GT)

The herbal tea prescriptions of Xu's family were later passed down from generation to generation, and Xu Qixiu Herbal Tea has been recognized by the Ministry of Commerce as a China Time-honored Brand.

The Shanghai branch currently offers a dozen kinds of herbal tea, which are available in bottles and as tea bags. The bottled tea is made every morning and is kept fresh in the refrigerator.

On the menu are liangcha wang (literally, the king of herbal tea), which contains over 20 medicinal herbs and is said to relieve a sore throat; American ginseng tea boiled with pear and chrysanthemum, which is supposed to nourish the lungs; as well as maogen zhuzhe shui, Chinese sugar cane tea boiled with blady grass root that relieves the body's inner heat. The herbal teas are sold at 6 yuan ($0.97) per roughly 300-milliliter bottle.

Add: No.10, Lane 98 Xing'an Road

兴安路98弄10号

Tel: 138-1879-1243

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