About Moya Matcha

Hitomi Saito, the cofounder of the Moya Matcha brand, grew up in Kanazawa prefecture in Japan. After having studied business and administration and instead of joining the family construction business she decided to follow her heart and enrolled to the Tokyo Seika Gakko cooking school while also undertaking training in the traditional Japanese tea ceremony. She further continued her education in macrobiotics at the Kushi Institute, one of world’s leading macrobiotic educational centers where she acquired knowledge of health benefits associated with a balanced diet emphasizing whole-grain products and vegetables. This led her to become a lecturer at the ABC Cooking Studio in Tokyo. After 3 years of lecturing it was time to extend her culinary background beyond Japanese tradition and Hitomi Saito traveled to Paris where she started working in Ze Kitchen Galerie in Saint-Germain des Près with the celebrity chef William Ledeuil, who introduced her to different approaches to French traditional cuisine. Since 2013 Hitomi Saito has been actively engaged in the promotion of organic matcha in European cuisine and in 2015 she created the Moya Tea brand focused around matcha and other Japanese organic green teas.Read their story