Teahouses

**Teahouses** are cafes that serve tea and refreshments. They are common meeting places for lovers, friends, and acquaintances. Customers get a pot, cups, and a tiny sand-clock that tells how long the tea has been steeping.

## Teahouses in Amalo

### Teahouses in the Airmen's Quarter

* The Circle of Pearls is within walking distance of Thara Celehar's apartment.
* The Hanevo Tree is well-suited for quiet contemplation. If you want more than one cup, you have to ask for it.
* The Red Dog's Dream has a Barizheise cook. They serve oslov.
* The A3 Trincsiva teahouse is called the Red Ruby Fox and serves an A3 Blend.
* The River-Cat is a meeting place for families and courting couples. It consists of one long room divided up into deep booths. The staff will always bring at least two cups.
* Mendelar's is within walking distance of Thara's apartment.
* The Tea Leaf is owned by a manufactory and sometimes not counted as a teahouse.

### Teahouses in other parts of Amalo

* The Bramblepony is "a teahouse notorious for also being an illicit gambling house."
* The Canalman's Dog is on the south side of the Mich'maika, on the eastern end of the Zheimela district. It is also a bar, and predates the legislation stating that teahouses cannot also be bars.
* The Chrysanthemum is Anora Chanavar's favorite teahouse.
* The Curling Vine is on General Shulihar Street.
* The Glass Phoenix
* The Golden Tea Light is possibly a teahouse in Zheimela.
* The House Spider
* The Lady of Rivers is by the Deep Well, the Dachen Csaivanat, north of the Mich'maika. It is run by novices from the shrine's csaivatheileian.
* The Pearl Dragon appears to be in or near the Airmen's Quarter, and largely serves women.
* The Pig of Good Fortune is on General Shulihar Street.
* The Rose Minuet is two tram stops away from the Sanctuary of Csaivo.
* Sholavee is the oldest teahouse in Amalo
* The Splinter of Stonanavee is along the canal near the Sanctuary of Csaivo.
* The Stone Tree is a teahouse favored by the Curneisei airmen. It is a warren of small, inconvenient, interconnected rooms, with small groups conversing in each. The conspirators who destroyed the *Wisdom of Choharo* met in this teahouse. It is probably in or near the Airmen's Quarter.
* The Torivontaram is in Veren'malo, and is run by Iäna Pel-Thenhior's mother.
* The Vedriveise Gambit is Azhanharad's preferred teahouse.
* There is a teahouse on General Parzhadar Square that serves golden orchor.

## Types of Tea

* The A3 Blend is made from leftover bits of other teas, and is very hot and strong.
* Aikanaro tastes of ginger.
* The Airmen's Blend from the Red Dog's Dream is strong enough to starch a shirt collar.
* Barizheise green tea is smoky and deep.
* Boronat
* Chamomile is Maia Drazhar's preferred tea. It was also the favorite tea of Chenelo Drazharan.
* Eladriät is served at the Chrysanthemum.
* Isevren is delicate and will not interfere with sleep, and is sometimes drunk with honey.
* Kolveris
* Orchor is dark, bitter, and highly caffeinated. Golden orchor is weaker than black orchor, but also less harsh.

## Trivia

* One tea shop in Amalo is on Winter Street and owned by the wife of Radora Husavar.
* Teahouses are referred to as "teahouse" 28 times in the series, and "tea house" twice, in *Lora Selezh*, so "teahouse" has been used for this article.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 Addison, Katherine. *The Witness for the Dead*, First ed., Tor, 2021.
2. ↑ Addison, Katherine. “6. The Widow Empress.” *The Goblin Emperor*, English 1st ed., Tim Doherty Associates, New York, NY, 2014.