Holding a small space inside an artisan gallery building at 4966 Santa Monica Avenue for over 20 years, TEA The Eternal Art runs the only dedicated gongfu tea ceremony teahouse in Ocean Beach. Whole-leaf white, green, black, oolong, pu'er, and hei cha teas sourced from China, Taiwan, and Japan share the shop with handmade gaiwans, teapots, and cups, alongside botanical herbs and handcrafted flutes — a herbal-medicine-adjacent practice that overlaps with the patient referral lane of Ocean Beach Acupuncture for clients already engaged in TCM-based wellness. Private gongfu sessions for one to three guests, monthly TEA Club tea-subscription deliveries, monthly events with collaborative guest artists, and herbal consultations producing custom flower essences, tinctures, and tisanes round out the bookable programming. The shared building also houses Crystal Visions and East Wind Herbs, making the 4966 address a clustered destination for OB visitors seeking botanical, ceremonial, and energetic services in a single stop. Whole-leaf gongfu preparation centers on slow-pour multi-infusion brewing of single-origin Chinese, Taiwanese, and Japanese teas served in handmade ceramic gaiwans, a ceremonial format separate from the Taiwan-style sweetened boba lane represented by Yeeha Boba in the wider OB tea market. Custom herbal blend consultations, private booking ceremonial tea sessions for small groups, monthly artist-collaboration events, and a curated whole-leaf and teaware retail collection inside the historic artisan gallery space have built the small Santa Monica Avenue room into one of San Diego's longest-running specialty tea operations.