Tea Chest Hawaii is an award-winning gourmet tea company based in Honolulu on the island of Oahu. Proprietors Satomi and Byron Goo have been offering fine teas since 1995.
Byron, who was born and raised in Hawaii, lived in Taiwan in the late 1980s and noticed that “tea was highly developed and quite the beverage of choice, unlike in America where it was still just two colors—green and black.” As he explains, the food scene in America, particularly in Hawaii, was changing rapidly in the 1990s: Food Network had turned
