Bon Chai - Chiawalas & Tea Merchants

08/06/2026

Australian café menus have changed! Adaptogen lattes, mushroom blends, turmeric shots — what used to sit in health food stores now sits on the specials board.

The driver is a customer paying attention to ingredients — what's in the cup and what it does. Cardamom has been used for digestion in Ayurvedic practice for centuries. Cinnamon delivers real numbers on blood sugar. Ginger covers inflammation and nausea (and was just named Medicinal Plant of 2026 by the European Medicines Agency!) and black pepper activates all of it. Chai has been carrying these healthy compounds long before functional beverages was a thing.

A café putting chai on the menu is stocking something with many centuries of work already behind it.

Full range at bonchai.com.au

07/06/2026

The British East India Company spent decades trying to get Indians to drink tea. Plantations across Assam and Darjeeling, a commercial apparatus and the weight of empire behind it.

Indians took the tea, added cardamom, ginger, cinnamon, clove, and black pepper, boiled it with milk and sugar, and handed it to chai wallahs — street vendors who sold it for a fraction of a rupee. Overnight a colonial commodity became one of the most democratic drinks on earth!

The spice blend was Ayurvedic knowledge applied to a new ingredient. A tradition that had been managing digestion, circulation, and inflammation through plants for centuries. The British brought the leaf. India brought everything that made it worth drinking.

That tradition is in every bag at bonchai.com.au

26/06/2025

Thanks to David and Rhonda for inviting us onboard - thank you 🙏🏻

Now at Whitebridge, Indian Spiced and Organic Red Rooibos Caffeine Free blends in 100g and 250g.

25/06/2025

Our Organic Rooibos Chai won GOLD at the Golden Leaf Tea Awards!

So, we make tasty chai (now officially 😊) though we’re not the best at promoting it. We entered these awards late last year and found we won a few months ago - woohoo!!! Apologies for the delayed announcement.

Thanks to the judges for thinking our chai is tasty, we really appreciate it - thank you!

If you’d like to taste what some of the best chai in Australia tastes like, pick up a bag online, link in description. When you’re there, sign up to our newsletter for offers that just don’t happen outside of it and to keep up with what we’re up to.

If you’d would like to serve better chai in your cafe or restaurant, get in touch - we’d love to help you do just that- it’s what we do 🤗

Thank you 🙏🏻

16/06/2025

Thank you!

We just wanted to say thanks to all of our amazing customers since coming back onboard.

Thank you to all our existing customers, the og’s out there! Especially the ones that took the time to reach out (sometimes a lot!) to ask when we were coming back. It’s really been something else to have had such a positive response to being able to get Bon Chai to you all again. Thank you very much

Thank you to all our new customers! The feedback we have received at the markets has been so good! Some just couldn’t find an authentic chai and are amazed at what we do, others just gave us a shot and were blown away that chai could taste this good! It’s great to have had the opportunity to meet so many of you face to face and talk chai, thank you very much for your time

Thank you to those that have ordered online! We truly do appreciate that you chose Bon Chai out of all that is available out there. We would love to hear your thoughts, please drop us a quick message or leave your thoughts below. We really hope you enjoy our chai, thank you

Thank you very much, we really do mean it - thank you ❤️

09/05/2025

Go green they said!

Thanks to our good friends we have an endless supply of bags that we package our online orders with. They’re strong and the perfect thing to be sending our orders out in. It costs us a little more to do it this way though we really believe in reducing waste and plastic production whenever possible. So if you receive your Bon Chai order and wonder why it’s wrapped in such a large bag, now you know.

Reduce. Re use. Recycle. We chai.

03/05/2025

Good morning,
Newcastle Farmers Market, chai time!!!



It’s all here

03/05/2025

03/05/2025

Hello!
We are up early and at the Newcastle City Farmers Market with all our tasty chai blends.
Come and say hi, inside the sheds, middle isle.
Chai time!!!

25/04/2025

We're back!!! After a little hiatus we’ve heard your call. Thanks for waiting ☺️!

We’ve dusted off the recipes, stocked the pantry with fresh tea, the spiciest spices and are ready for action.

There’s some exciting news on the way too! Please hit LIKE and FOLLOW to keep up with what we're up to.

So consider this a quick hello to let you know that our online store is open again and we have all three of our amazing blends in stock.

www.bonchai.com.au/shop

We can’t wait to see you. Thank you!