Kirin

Cuisine of Northern China

1767 Solano Ave. Berkeley, CA 94707 USA 510-524-1677
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We serve an assortment of non-alchoholic drinks as well as wine, beer and cocktails. Kirin’s classical selection of hot teas readies your palate for a wonderful feast and heightens your gustatory experience. Please select one of our excellent Asian Teas to accompany your meal. Our Tea leaves come from all over China offering Green, Oolong, Black and scented varieties. Your choice of Tea will add greatly to your experience here at the Kirin.


Beverages

Green Teas

Green tea leaves picked from the tea bush Camellia Sinensis are dried, rolled and fired producing a grassy freshness and herbaceous quality in taste and aroma. Green teas usually have the least amount of caffeine.

  • Spring Hao Ya Jasmine 5

    Scented by the Jasmine blossom, tea leaves are dried, rolled and fired with the petals of the Jasmine giving the finished mixture a floral aroma. With most of the leaves removed, you enjoy a light green tea with a jasmine fresh fragrance and no bitterness.

  • Japanese Genmai Cha 3.50

    The classic Japanese green tea enhanced with toasted rice and popped corn producing a light, earthy, and nutty aroma.

  • Osmanthus Green 3.50

    Long tea leaves naturally scented by the delicate sweetness of the Osmanthus blossom offering a brew with a savory and herbal aroma.

Oolong Teas

“Black Dragon” in Chinese, Oolong teas are also dried and fired, but an intermediate step of limited fermenting yields a pungent and rich tea while maintaining the freshness of green tea.

  • Floral Ti Kuan Yin (Iron Goddess) 5

    Best of the Oolongs. Produced only from one county in China (An Xi), this amber mixture offers a full-bodied tea with a complex lingering taste and a wonderfully aromatic bouquet.

  • Min-Nan Oolong 4.50

    A premium quality tea, new to the Oolong family with a pure bouquet and a classic full bodied Oolong flavor.

  • Orchid Oolong 4.50

    Orchid seeds dried, rolled, slightly fermented, and fired with the tea leaves infuses a slight sweetness into this medium bodied golden-colored tea.

Black Teas

Known to the Chinese as “hong cha” or red tea because of the deep colors of the liquid, Camellia Sinensis leaves are left to completely ferment. This practice results in a beverage with great character and assertiveness.

  • Lichee Congou Black 4

    Scented lightly by the liquid of Lichee fruit, this brown-red tea offers the classical strong character of black tea with an elusive sweetness.

  • Rose Congou Black 4

    Large rose petals scent this delicately aromatic, fragrant and pungent tea.

$8.00 Corkage fee

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