Hingeway Streets
Tea Shop
This scene is a hint at what the interiors of the buildings could be, a simple courtyard softened by the shadows cast by beams and paper lanterns overhead, the gentle rippling of a pond, and the shade of a tree.
Wou Chen's Tea Shop
Situated in Hingeway’s Asian district, Wou Chen’s Tea Shop is a mainstay of Hingeway cultural landscape, having continuously operated since its establishment in the 1900s, though it has moved location many times.
Day to day operation of the tea shop are much like any café, a small staff works the front of house service, and a kitchen staff working in the back, all of these are roughly how you’d expect part-timers to be in a magically hidden town.
The private rooms are the domain of Wou Chen himself, though if this is the Wou Chen, or a Wou Chen is a subject which the man himself take mischievous joy in keeping vague, though as eccentric behaviour goes for significant figures in Hingeway, deliberately maintaining rumours about the nature of your own existence is pretty mild.
No matter his actual identity, when respectfully addressed as “Wou-fūzǐ” he is a convivial fountain of esoteric knowledge that he is willing to share, for only minor tasks or favours.