Japanese matcha for Silicon Valley.

Who we supply in Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley buys matcha in two very different ways. One is retail: the boba corridors of Cupertino, Milpitas, and east San Jose, the dessert shops around Santana Row and Westgate, the cafes of downtown San Jose and Japantown, and the university trade around San Jose State and Stanford. The other is corporate: campus cafes, micro-kitchens, and catering programs in Mountain View, Sunnyvale, Santa Clara, and Palo Alto, where a single food program can pour more matcha in a week than a small cafe does in a month.

• Boba and dessert shops in Cupertino, Milpitas, Santa Clara, and east San Jose.
• Corporate micro-kitchens and campus cafes buying through a food service operator or directly.
• Catering and events teams serving matcha at all-hands meetings and offsites.
• Cafes and tea houses in downtown San Jose, Japantown, and Palo Alto.

Samples and wholesale delivery

Free sample kits ship by USPS to South Bay addresses. For a corporate program we can send enough sachets for several sites to taste the same lot at once; say so in your request.

Wholesale orders are milled to order in Japan. Ocean freight clears at the Port of Oakland and trucks down to the South Bay; air freight clears at SFO, with San Jose Mineta handling some international cargo.

Permits and licensing

The Santa Clara County Department of Environmental Health permits food facilities across San Jose, Santa Clara, Sunnyvale, Cupertino, Mountain View, and Palo Alto. Fremont and Milpitas sit on the county line: Fremont is in Alameda County, so it permits through Alameda County Environmental Health.

• Businesses that manufacture, repack, or warehouse packaged food generally register with the California Department of Public Health.
• Proposition 65 applies statewide; we provide lot-specific heavy metal test results for each lot.
• Corporate food programs usually run their own vendor onboarding on top of the public permits. See below for what that normally involves.

Getting through corporate vendor onboarding

Selling matcha to a tech campus is less about the tasting and more about the paperwork. The food service operator or procurement team usually asks for the same set of documents before a single bag is ordered, and the deal stalls when a supplier cannot produce them quickly. We keep these ready:

• Product specification per line: origin, harvest, cultivar, milling, and packaging.
• Lot documentation: lot number and milling date on every pack, with heavy metal and pesticide residue results for the lot.
• Organic certificates where the program requires organic, including the import paperwork behind the claim.
• Allergen and ingredient statements for the nutrition and labeling review.
• One reserved lot so every site pours the same matcha, which is what a multi-building program actually cares about.

If you are the operator rather than the client, tell us how many sites and how the drink is made, by hand, shaker, or machine, and we can suggest a pair that works across all of them. Our San Francisco and East Bay pages cover the rest of the region.

Your first order, step by step

Start with up to two grades of your choice. Free sample kits are available for US businesses. Test them in your own recipes before choosing your first wholesale order.

• Tell us what you serve. Share your menu, milk, cup size, and expected volume.
• Taste with your team. Compare the samples in the drinks your customers order.
• Get a delivery quote. Confirm grade, quantity, and shipping to San Jose. Wholesale orders ship from Japan.