Growing up in Amoy, China, Amery Chen always understood tea as a daily ritual to unwind and recharge. When she landed in L.A. for medical school, the daily tea drinking routine stayed with her and kept her alert during long nights of studying.<\/p>\n
Now a full-time urgent care doctor who works 50-hour weeks, Chen is sharing her tradition with Angelenos at Torotea, her bustling Diamond Bar tea house that\u2018s expanding to its fifth location this month. <\/p>\n
Chen takes pride in Torotea\u2019s selection of teas imported from around the world, which are brewed in small batches and optionally paired with unique house-made toppings like a popular jelly made from barley tea.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve been able to attract people from different ages, ethnicities and genders,\u201d Chen said. \u201cIt\u2019s meaningful beyond words for me to be able to create something so borderless.\u201d<\/p>\n
In Redondo Beach, Racer Tea Bar owner Chad Webber educates customers every day on the therapeutic properties of teas he sources from around the world. Before the pandemic, Webber was living out of a 1975 Dodge van when he began experimenting with swapping his morning coffee for a London fog rendition sweetened with lavender, honey and oat milk.<\/p>\n
It stuck \u2014 he branded his Earl Grey tea latte \u201cThe Rocker\u201d and began driving around the country selling tea out of his van, until business boomed enough to ditch the wheels and open his brick-and-mortar in late 2021. The storefront\u2019s heavy rock \u2018n\u2019 roll aesthetic brings an undeniably unique energy to L.A.\u2019s tea scene.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe locals of South Bay have responded incredibly well to it,\u201d Webber said. \u201cWe\u2019re busting out of the norm. This isn\u2019t your grandma\u2019s tea shop.\u201d<\/p>\n
If you\u2019re looking to explore beyond L.A.\u2019s bountiful coffee<\/a> and matcha<\/a> shops, here are eight L.A. spots dedicated to milk teas and tea lattes that span a wide array of styles and cultures, from a modern Indian restaurant serving ginger and cardamom chai lattes in Culver City to a lively Argentine mate shop in Northridge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Growing up in Amoy, China, Amery Chen always understood tea as a daily ritual to unwind and recharge.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":459324,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[181152,181157,9182,112124,181155,2303,48,52,51,47,50,49,3906,3145,64845,31954,181153,181154,181156,8074],"class_list":["post-459323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-amery-chen","tag-best-milk-tea","tag-customer","tag-different-age","tag-dodge-van","tag-l-a","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-month","tag-pride","tag-selection","tag-tea","tag-tea-latte","tag-torotea","tag-webber","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/459324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}