Ten Ren's Tea or Tian Ren's Tea () is a Taiwan-based company that specializes in
tea
Tea is an aromatic beverage prepared by pouring hot or boiling water over cured or fresh leaves of ''Camellia sinensis'', an evergreen shrub native to East Asia which probably originated in the borderlands of southwestern China and north ...
and
ginseng
Ginseng () is the root of plants in the genus '' Panax'', such as Korean ginseng ('' P. ginseng''), South China ginseng ('' P. notoginseng''), and American ginseng ('' P. quinquefolius''), typically characterized by the presence of ginsenosides ...
products.
History
![Ten Ren's Tea Culture Building 20101104](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8d/Ten_Ren%27s_Tea_Culture_Building_20101104.jpg)
Founded in 1953
in
Taiwan
Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the nort ...
by Ray Ho Lee, Ten Ren's Group (天仁集團) also operates Cha for Tea teahouses in Southern California as well as Ten Ren's Tea (天仁茗茶) stores in California and six Ten Rens in New York, and other places, and through the subsidiary
Ten Fu Group (天福集團) produces and sells tea products in
China, where much of its activity now takes place.
By 2003 it had 113 outlets globally, making it Taiwan's largest tea shop chain.
Global
![TenRensTeaMarkham](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/63/TenRensTeaMarkham.jpg)
Ten Ren Tea is located in
Australia,
Japan,
Canada
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, Malaysia, the United States
and other countries. The Ten Ren Tea and the Lu-Yu Tea Institute are part of the Ten Fu Group. The Lu-Yu Tea Culture Institute (陸羽茶藝中心) was founded in 1980. Ten Fu Group in 1993, as a way of bringing Taiwanese tea expertise back to the Chinese mainland. Ten Fu now has over 1000 retails stores across China "as of 2010". Tenfu Tea College (天福茶學院) was founded in 2007 by Ten Fu Group.
Ten Ren's Tea Vancouver store was featured as a challenge location in an episode of The Amazing Race Canada. The episode was watched by 2.9 million Canadians.
See also
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Taiwanese tea
Taiwanese tea includes four main types: oolong tea, black tea, green tea and white tea. The earliest record of tea trees found in Taiwan is from 1717 in Shui Sha Lian (), present-day Yuchi and Puli, Nantou County. Some of the teas retain the isl ...
References
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External links
Ten Ren's Group- Official Taiwan Website
Ten Ren's Tea Group- Official Canada Website
TenRenUSA.com- Official USA website
{{Food chains in Australia
1953 establishments in Taiwan
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Tea companies of Taiwan
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