Beca Tea, Damansara Uptown

It's always golden hour inside Damansara Uptown's gleaming new cavern of cha, where tea temptations transform into everything from nitro-charged tea to cha-kigori.

Beca Tea is founded by a Malaysian family that has traded in tea from their Chinatown store since the early 1930s. At Beca, tea is steeped in the family's five-generation expertise, with an experimental edge that beckons patrons to "sip the future."

Blending and brewing with a meticulous eye for details and a visionary sense of imagination, Beca's beverages span highlights like the Squash Supreme that layers tea with oven-roasted butternut squash, oat milk, balsamic vinegar and grass jelly.  For milk tea fans, try the lapsang souchong coconut pure milk tea.

Nitro Jasmine Tea (RM13.90) harnesses jasmine plucked under moonlight for a fine floral fragrance, free of added sugar, artificial syrups and colourings. Even the Teh Tarik (RM5.50) is exemplary, its pristine black tea flavour nurtured through compression technology.

Beca's maiden setting in Damansara Uptown is mainly geared for grab-and-go orders, but it's a striking space to explore, lined with lovely tea-dyed textiles. 

Fun fact: Beca's name refers to the trishaw that the family's late patriarch rode nearly a century ago, pedalling and peddling his tea through the streets of colonial-era KL.