If you’re a kombucha lover or just a bit of a health nut, you’ll likely have already heard of Taboocha. Hong Kong’s first craft kombucha brewery, this local women-owned business is celebrating its 11th birthday and opened a pop-up venue in Sheung Wan with exclusive products and more to taste and explore.
Aptly named the Scoby Room, the pop-up is a testament to Taboocha’s products, creativity, and how far they’ve come over the past decade. From light installations made from dried scoby cultures and kombucha tasters aged for different lengths of time, to reimagined artworks of their bottle labels (and they’ve collaborated with many talented artists so far), visitors can get a deeper insight into this Hong Kong brand.
Pop a bottle of their pop-up-exclusive Mui flavour, made with a three-year-old batch of plum syrup, and head into the back of the exhibition to get your ‘fortune’ told by picking a number from the various scoby pieces hanging around. Fun fact: Taboocha is named after the founders’ dog Taboo, and she is featured in the video that loops on the old-school TV set. Finally, don’t leave without grabbing some exclusive merch such as t-shirts or a hand-made scoby plush keychain. There are only about 100 of these cute little guys available, so the dolls are even more rare than Labubus (Tabooboos, if you will?).
Check out Taboocha’s Scoby Room pop-up at 54 Sai Street until March 5.
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