You can relax — that's not a fish swimming in your teacup. It's just a tea bag designed to look like one.
The newest craze to hit the tea world is goldfish tea bags. The bags are shaped like fish, and when you pull the string that is attached, it looks like the fish is swimming.
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Charm Villa, a Taipei-based creative agency, started the production of these fish-shaped tea bags in 2013. The bags are now available to enjoy in America. Customers can purchase them online for as much as $20 per bag, though they href="http://www.bustle.com/articles/127697-tea-bags-that-transform-into-goldfish-will-make-your-tea-classy-af-photos">reportedly sell $35 per pack of 12 in Taiwan.
The tea, which is sourced from Taiwan, comes in four flavors including three varieties of oolong tea and a black tea.
A Charm Villa representative tells Eater the teabags, designed by 28 university students, are made from Japanese fabric. Of the 16 steps that go into making a single bag, "Nine of those require manual, handicraft skill."
The bag itself won the iF Design Award 2015 for Discipline Packaging and the Red Dot Communication Design Award in 2014 for its ingenious design.
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So far, the tea, which is constantly sold out, is available only online in the U.S., though there will reportedly be exhibitions in Kyoto, Milan, Paris and New York.
Some can't get enough of this almost-alive tea bag.
Christmas elves, you know what I want in my stocking! | Delightfully Whimsical Tea Bags are Shaped Like Goldfish https://t.co/vBwh2Hm5VM— LettuceSpoon (@LettuceSpoon) December 6, 2015
While others are a little more wary of what's swimming in that teacup.
I'm finding these slightly creepy, and I'm quite glad I don't drink tea, so I'll never be served one! RT https://t.co/IVd5Zp4tYb— Liz Boulton (@lizcostume) December 5, 2015
Charm Villa did not respond to Mashable's request for comment.