Our Drinks
Tea
Please select one of our excellent asian teas to accompany your meal. Kirin's classical selection of hot brews readies your palate for a wonderful feast and heightens your gustatory experience. 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.
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.
Oolong Teas
"Black Dragon" in Chinese, Oolong teas are also dried and fired, but with an intermediate step of limited fermenting yields a pungent and rich tea while maintaining the freshness of green 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.
Osmanthus Green
$8.00
Long tea leaves naturally scented by the delicate sweetness of the osmanthus blossom, offering a brew with a savory and herbal aroma.
Floral Ti Kuan Yin (Iron Goddess)
$8.00
Best of the oolongs. Produced only from one county in China (Anxi), this amber mixture offers a full-bodied tea with a complex, lingering taste and a wonderfully aromatic bouquet.
Rose Congou Black
$8.00
Large rose petals scent this delicately aromatic, fragrant and pungent tea.
Japanese Genmai Cha
$8.00
The classic Japanese green tea is enhanced with toasted rice and popped corn, producing a light, earthy, and nutty aroma.
Min - Nan Oolong
$8.00
A premium quality tea, new to the oolong family, with a pure bouquet and a classic full-bodied Oolong flavor.
Lichee Congou Black
$8.00
Scented lightly by the liquid of lichee fruit, this brown-red tea offers the classic.
Spring Hao Ya Jasmine
$8.00
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.
Orchid Oolong
$8.00
Orchid seeds dried, rolled, slightly fermented, and fired with the tea leaves infuse a slight sweetness into this medium bodied golden-colored tea.