Sathia Tea Centre

Sathia Tea Centre is located right in the middle of Dhanmandi. If you know the area, you know it stays busy from morning until late at night. We’ve been operating from this spot for a long time now. The shop itself is packed with different tea varieties. We have the strong CTC teas that people like for their morning chai and some larger leaf ones too. The walls are lined with tins and bags. It gets a bit cramped when a few people come in at once, but we make it work. I usually spend my time behind the counter, weighing out portions on the scale. It’s an old scale, but it works just fine for what we do. The noise from the market is constant, so you have to speak up a bit when talking to customers. We don’t spend money on fancy decorations or anything like that. The focus is just on the tea and making sure we have enough in stock. Sometimes the rains make the street muddy, and business slows down, but otherwise, it's pretty constant. We know most of the people who walk by. We share a bit of gossip or talk about the market rates while the tea is being bagged up. It’s just a normal way to spend the day. We don’t try to be anything we aren’t. It’s just us and the tea, every day.