A-Mei Teahouse is an iconic landmark at Jiufen, Taiwan. It is known for its unique building structure that came from the Japanese animation Spirited Away. A-Mei Teahouse is located at the enter of the Jiufen Old Street. It is a rather large structure that no one would miss. There are always tourists taking photos of A-Mei Teahouse, thus it is rather easy to find by just spotting where the crowd is taking the photos.
We went to A-Mei Teahouse around 5PM and there were so many people at the front of the entrance taking photos. It was extremely difficult to even walk into the teahouse entrance. The entire street and the platform were fill with people taking photos. A-Mei Teahouse did not offer any food and only offered snacks that came with the tea tasting menu. Customers could choose to have hot or cold tea. We chose 1 hot and 1 cold tea to see the different. The cold tea can be refilled as many times as you want. The hot tea came with tea leafs and a huge black pot was placed at the front of our table to provide hot water for the hot tea.
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The server also brought us some snacks such as plums, mochis, sesame cookies, and Chinese cake. The plum was not sour due to the white sugar coating on the out side. The other snacks were sweet as well. We enjoyed the cold tea a lot more than the hot tea due to the fact that the weather was hot. The cold tea really made the body a lot more refreshing. When we were paying the bill, the server also gave us a post card that has A-Mei Teahouse on it. This was a bit of a surprise.
A-Mei Teahouse was an unique place to visit, but the price per person was not cheap. It was about $300 NT per person. Most people were just there to kill time to wait for the night time to come. We probably won't visit A-Mei Teahouse again if we didn't need to.
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