Baoputang
A tea house in the hutongs of Dongcheng, Beijing — near the Mandarin Oriental, a few minutes from Qianmen.
We keep tea slowly: raw puerh aged in clay, jasmine picked at night, green tea steeped by feel rather than timer. Baoputang has no storefront ambition beyond the room it already has — 116 West Xinglong Street, open most afternoons, best found by people who are already walking past.
This site is where that room extends, quietly, to people further away.