Tea pillows

Taiwan Where Can I Find...?
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Tea leaf stuff pillows in Taipei? Would be a life saver! Thanks in advance!

2

Try the small bedding shop in your neighborhood!
If you can’t find it, I know there is one on Xing An Street close to Lung Chiang Road.

3

[quote=“I am a City Girl”]Try the small bedding shop in your neighborhood!
If you can’t find it, I know there is one on Xing’an Street close to Lung Chiang Road.[/quote]

I’ve tried every bedding shop in the area (i’m in hsinchu during the week)…What neighborhood in Taipei is the store you’re referring to?

4

Please forgive me for my ignorance, but don’t they sell tea leaves everywhere, and pillow casings at bedding shops? Is a ‘tea pillow’ somehow different than just stuffing the latter with the former?

5

I found one in Carrefour, one side of the casing is made of weaved palm leaf. Aroma is too strong for me though makes me nauseous.

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[quote=“mikshoton”][quote=“I am a City Girl”]Try the small bedding shop in your neighborhood!
If you can’t find it, I know there is one on Xing’an Street close to Lung Chiang Road.[/quote]

I’ve tried every bedding shop in the area (i’m in Hsinchu during the week)…What neighborhood in Taipei is the store you’re referring to?[/quote]

Hi,
It’s ZhongShan Dist.
The shop is opposite to A from the following google map link, I think.
maps.google.com.tw/maps?hl=zh-TW … a=N&tab=wl

7

I saw some nice looking Chinese pillows in Carreforre the other day. Some with tatami coverings and some with bamboo slat coverings. not sure of the filling though.

8

Costco has some very overpriced ones.

9

Thanks for the input everyone. I ended up finding on in a small alley a few blocks from my apartment. The pillow “case” is made of thin/soft bamboo strips, the lady at the store said this is better for mold and stink. Used it for a few days, the aroma hasn’t been too overpowering. It’s a little smaller than a normal bed-pillow, got it for 400NT. Just in case anyone else out there is interested!

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I love thos ethings but my question is: how do you clean them? I mean, how do you clean bamboo? And that is not the sort of thing you dump in the washer…