SOANU · IN DEVELOPMENT
A warm cup.
For chilly days.
Long days in cool rooms can leave you craving a little warmth. We're developing a Korean herbal tea inspired by traditionally warming ingredients, for a comforting pause between tasks.
Follow the ingredient choices, flavor questions, and decisions behind the first cup.
Cold office.
Full calendar.
The room feels chilly. You've been at your desk for hours. A break keeps slipping to the bottom of the list.
We're shaping SOANU for people who want something warming to sip in the middle of that day. A cup to hold, a taste to linger over, and a small pause before the next task.
Our Korean herbal starting point
Why we begin
with warmth.
Hanbang, traditional Korean medicine, considers the nature of an ingredient alongside its taste. Fresh ginger is traditionally described as slightly warming; cassia cinnamon bark, as hot.
That tradition gives SOANU a starting point as we develop a tea inspired by ingredients traditionally considered warming. We're bringing that inspiration into a cup for everyday use.
Ginger and cassia cinnamon are examples from the tradition. Our final blend is still taking shape.
Traditional context: KMCRIC materia medica · Fresh ginger · Cassia cinnamon (sources in Korean)
The cup we're working toward
Tradition, flavor,
and room in your day.
Warming ingredients.
A blend direction informed by the traditional qualities of Korean herbs and foods, with ingredient choices we can explain.
Flavor with depth.
Aromatic spice and a rounded finish, balanced for a cup you'll want to come back to.
Care that fits.
Straightforward preparation for a brief pause, even when there's plenty left to do.
Our story
Before SOANU,
a cup at home.
Our founder remembers honey water and the sweetness and bitterness of ssanghwa tea. Paper parcels of herbs. A brewing pot at home. The brew pressed through cotton cloth.
Those memories shaped a lasting interest in the role food and plant ingredients can have in everyday care. SOANU begins there, with a question: what could that care look—and taste—like in a cup for today?
A warm herbal tea for an ordinary afternoon. A little room for yourself while the day is still unfinished.
The story can invite the first sip.
Taste has to earn the next one.
A few questions
Before the first cup.
Development notes
Follow the first cup
as it takes shape.
Get occasional notes on ingredient choices, flavor development, and the decisions that turn our Korean herbal starting point into an everyday tea.