Why this Chinese tea costs more than $184,000 per kilogram
CNN
The most prized item at Glassbelly, a new tea-focused restaurant in Hong Kong, is the Niu Lan Keng Rougui, a rare variety of tea from a valley in China's Wuyi Mountains. The cost? $3,437 for five grams.
Hong Kong (CNN) — A sumptuous three-course afternoon tea at Glassbelly Tea Lab, a fine-dining restaurant in Hong Kong, has just begun.
But neither the abalone nor the A4 Wagyu ribeye are the stars of the show.
It's the eight glasses of tea that lure patrons to this dark, wood-paneled space in the city's busy Causeway Bay neighborhood.
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