Awazon Tea

Awazon Tea is a long-running pu-erh vendor based in Kunming's Guandu District, run by a husband-and-wife team (surname Zhang) who have built a following among English-language pu-erh drinkers since the site first appeared in tea-forum circles in the late 2000s. The house sells a mix of its own pressed cakes — including aged and ripe pu-erh that reviewers on tea-tracking sites like Steepster have singled out as some of the vendor's stronger offerings — alongside teas sourced from established Yunnan factories, giving it a broader range than a single-estate producer. Long-running vendor guides, including teadb.org's pu-erh vendor directory, still list Awazon among the small set of Kunming-based sellers who ship pu-erh directly to international buyers rather than through resellers, describing its own-pressed cakes as older stock than what many newer, more western-facing vendors carry. Customer feedback collected over more than a decade on forums like TeaChat and Steepster is mixed but generally positive, with particular praise for its black and white teas and aged ripe pu-erh, and some reviewers noting quality varies more at the lower end of its price range. The vendor's own site returned a TLS error during this check, but its listing, address and reputation are corroborated across multiple independent tea-community sources.