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This place was recommended by my bf sis and I was a bit hesitant at first because usually an ice cream place would have a few vegan selection. But Hug Life had an entire store devoted to vegan. I’m glad I tried this place because you can’t tell that they use almond milk, coconut milk, non-dairy. They brew their own coffee and tea so I sampled Viet coffee and Thai tea. I expected the Viet coffee to be more creamier like ca phe sua da. The Thai tea is decaf and tastes just like Thai tea. Then I went fruity and tried the mango chamoy which is a sorbet. Very good. But my final choice in a small cup 50/50 meaning two scoops in a small cup of banana boy and matcha monsta. Banana boy is exactly like banana bread. The matcha monsta is matcha with oreos. At first, the matcha sample was yummy but when I got the scoop, the oreos was too much and I could no longer taste the matcha. The bf got the mango chamoy drink. I think the guy went crazy with chamoy and tajin. I ended up scooping the mango instead of drinking it through a straw. Don’t forget to check in to get a free topping!

Jie Boba & Tea – Menu with Prices – 1014 E Bastanchury Rd, Fullerton

The lady and service was very nice and professional. They are a new location and this was our first visit. She patiently answered all questions about items on the menu. We got the puffy waffle, a Matcha milk tea, and a coffee smoothie with Boba. The puffy waffle is like a cross between a waffle and pancake. Itâ??s not crunchy like a traditional waffle, the puffs are not dense, but theyâ??re not light and fluffy; they are somewhere in between. The pancake was kind of plain with not much flavor but they have added fresh banana and strawberries with whip cream and chocolate syrup. Overall we really liked it. The coffee smoothie was really sweet but good The Matcha milk tea is one of the 2 best Iâ??ve had. This will be my new go to place for matcha milk tea in this area.

Neveria Tino – Menu with Prices – 4476, 7301 Baseline Rd Ste B, Little Rock

Hands down on this Ice cream place. It’s very delicious and omg I dont like the original chamoy but the chamoy they make its sooo GOOD!!.. I dont even eat mangoliadas at my Town in Kansas city (I’m here in Little rock, AR for work) but I know that when I come back and visit AR I will for sure stop by this place again. We order, Elote en vaso, strawberry ice cream and mangoliada and we were very satisfied. THANK YOU FOR AN AMAZING SERVICE!!.. God bless your bussines.

Phi Coffee & Tea – Menu with Prices – 3212 N Jupiter Rd Ste 115, Garland

This isn’t your standard boba shop. This is definitely much more of a coffee shop type place than somewhere to get your milk tea craving satisfied – actually, you can’t even get milk tea here. Which I thought was interesting. I asked the employee what he suggested getting since I had never been there before but still wanted to try something. He told me the most popular drink was the Thai green tea, which sounded pretty tasty since I’m a huge fan of matcha! He definitely did not steer me wrong – I really enjoyed the drink. If you’re a fan of Thai tea and matcha, this is the drink for you. It’s milky like Thai tea, semi-sweet, and filled with matcha flavor goodness. I would have given this place 4 stars had the boba been better made. It was extremely bland and way too chewy. I like my boba to be in between the consistency of soft and chewy, but unfortunately, I was chewing for too long on these little balls. There was also zero flavor, so if you just got a mouthful of boba and no tea, you’re stuck just chewing on flavorless jelly balls. It was odd. The manager also needs to staff their employees better because there was only one visible employee making all the drinks and I saw one employee in the back probably working on food orders. The poor guy was clearly overwhelmed with all the orders coming in so please cut your employees some slack and give them as much help as needed for the demand!

Kung Fu Tea – Menu with Prices – 306 Hiawatha Blvd W J209, Syracuse

Their bubble tea was okay and nothing special. The reason I gave 2 stars because of their service. I asked the staff before ordering about the difference between matcha milk and matcha milk cap, and he said “it’s the same”. I asked “so the milk are the same and no additional ingredients in it?” and he said yes. So I ordered matcha milk cap and bubble honey milk tea. The drinks came and I tried them. The bubble honey milk tea was okay. I’ve had it better somewhere else. The worst one is matcha milk cap. It tasted nasty and salty. I asked why it tasted salty and the staff said “its milk cap what you ordered” and I said “is there additional ingredients in it?” and she said “yes cream, cheese, salt”. Then I said “but the staff who took my order said no additional ingredients between matcha milk and matcha milk cap before I order”. The staff said that I should already know before ordering. I was like shocked and in my head was like did you listen what I said? I didn’t want to argue because its useless. They just don’t care because they already got my money. The line wasn’t long on that day. Only two people were line behind me. I ended up threw my matcha milk cap because it taste not good at all. The staff should give better service. If customer asked about your menu then you should be able to explain it well. What if I allergic to cheese and because you don’t explain it well I ended up getting it and something worst could happen.

JOE & THE JUICE – Menu with Prices – 2000 Collins Ave, Miami Beach

Was in Sobe visiting for my sisters wedding and this place was the only thing close to my hotel where i could eat in the AM. Being a mostly raw vegan there isnt much in this area. I came here 3 times. The menu here is boring the smoothies all have milk in them and the juice smoothie combos are not even appetizing. They dont have oranges or orange juice???? In Florida ok…..The inside was dirty, crumbs liquid all on the tables floor banquets at 8am??? We couldn’t even sit, the employees were rude or just seemed like they did not want to be there. Surprisingly it was busy in there. I ordered a juice the first day asked them to customize something they wouldn’t do it. Ok? I ended up with a cucumber apple it was 9.00 and blended with ice so it tastes like water plus the cup isnt even filled to the top because of the foam. The next two days i had the banana raspberry smoothie subbed out almond milk for regular milk -it was watery thin and had so many raspberry seeds and ice chunks i couldn’t even drink it through the straw. And every single thing i got from here tasted like ginger, i like ginger but what if you didnt. I guess they don’t clean the blenders or juicer well. My bf got the acai bowl the first day and they put bruised borderline rotten bananas on top he said it wasn’t good. Wouldn’t recommend at all.

Green Crush – Menu with Prices – Fashion Fair Ln, Fresno

Came here around 8pm and the mall closes around 9pm I believe. No big crowds to contend with, but not fully dead either. I’ve been wanting to try this place since they opened and finally got around to it. There was no one in line or waiting so I walked up and looked at the menu. There were 4 employees clustered and talking at the counter in front of me near the register/ menu. No one said anything to me. Didn’t greet me, ask me if I’d been there before, nothing. I kinda already knew what I already wanted, but maybe a friendly greeting and menu recommendations? There was another employee on the other end behind the juices talking to a girl in front. When I walked down there to look at the containers of juices the girl walked away and he offered me a sample. I said sure and explained that I had never been there before. He gave me a sample of a cucumber mint drink after asking if I liked mint, cucumber and lime. It was good and quite refreshing, but after he gave me the sample he started shouting free samples to try and attract other people. :/ So I just asked if I had to order at the register and he said yes. I walked back over to the register and they didn’t react until I actually stood in front and tried to order. After I ordered my drink (Spicy Pineapple Picante Crush $6) it was ready almost immediately which was nice. It’s quite large (32oz) and they give you a good amount of mango dipped in chamoy spiraled around a straw. The actual juice was very good and refreshing with bits of pineapple in it. The mango on the other hand was disappointing. I have seen someone drink one of these Picante Crushes near me before and I had noticed her mango looked hard and unripe. Harder mango will obviously work better in presentation because it can hold itself up, but dry, unripened, hard mango just doesn’t taste that good. After a while I just took the mango off the straw and stuck it into the drink and I think that helped soften/ rehydrate it a bit. I personally found the chamoy a bit overwhelming on the mango, maybe because the mango wasn’t sweet so it was just salty. I know people love this place and I honestly did love the actual beverage part of my drink. Maybe my lousy customer service can be chalked up to it being the end of the night. I will probably try this place again sometime in the future, just hope the service is better. TLDR: Actual Picante Crush drink is good, but not the accompanying mango fruit. Customer service lousy, but maybe it was just a bad night.

DALIA’S DULCERIA Y PALETERIA MICHOACANA – Menu with Prices – 7310 Staples Mill Rd, Richmond

Love, love, LOVE this place. Upon entering the store, we were promptly greeted with warm smiles and greetings – already an instant win in my book. There only seemed to be one person there that spoke English but she was very patient, answering our many questions as this was our first time here, even with a small line of customers behind us. She allowed us to try as many samples as we wanted before making our decision as we were overwhelmed (it’s a good thing!) with lots of delicious choices. My BIL ended up getting two scoops of ice cream (bubble gum abs cotton candy) – he loved both flavors. My sister got the mangonada – which came with 2 scoops of their mango ice cream, fresh mangos, their chili and chamoy sauce and a tamarind straw. I think the person who made hers was a little heavy handed on the chamoy sauce as it was unbearably sour and overpowered the fresh mangos and tastiness of the mango ice cream. We did a little “sour dance” after every bite. Despite it being extremely sour, you could tell that the mangos were fresh and the ice cream was delicious (we tried to scoop them without the chamoy sauce). I got the frutas aquas frescas – it’s kind of like an icy smoothie. It was delicious; light, refreshing and not too sweet. The mixed fruit cake with papaya, apples, melons and a bunch of other fruits she named that I can’t remember. Keep in mind that they don’t have all of the ice cream flavors on their menu nor the aquas frescas as they rotate them every week (I originally wanted the avocado ice cream and the watermelon aquas frescas but they didn’t have either). I was still happy with my third choice and would definitely be back to try others!

Tai Tea Anaheim Menu with Prices 9840 Katella Ave, Anaheim

I have been a fan of the Tai Tea franchise since I loved their milk tea and iced milk drinks at the other locations. When I saw they had a BOGO deal, I had to come check it out! However, I never knew someone can mess up on Jasmine Milk Tea so badly…. I am not sure if it was because of the promotion they had, hence they rushed or if it was because of the ingredients in general… Jasmine Milk Tea, half sweet, – it did not have any jasmine taste at all. It was also very bland and did not taste right at all. Not sure what made it taste like this, but i did not taste any jasmine green tea in the milk tea. Very disappointed in this drink since it is always my go-to drink for every store. Berry Lychee tea, half sweet – very little taste of strawberry and lychee. I think since I got half sweet, they lessened the syrup pumps they put in, resulting in a very bitter tea with little to no flavor Triple the trouble – this drink ended up being too sweet for me. The flavor was good though, but tasted just like syrup instead of something fresh and refreshing MangoNada- this was great. Good mango and chamoy flavor and consistency in the slush. WinterMelon milk tea – Did not taste any winter melon in this drink. It was very subtle and the milk tea itself did not taste right. Hong Kong Milk Tea Coffee – This drink was horrible honestly. I was expecting a very strong ceylon milk tea with a hint of coffee because I often drink this type of drink elsewhere and make it at home as well. But this was extremely bitter and did not taste any tea. They need to add more creamer or more tea because it tasted like straight-up black coffee with a splash of milk and sugar. I hope they improve their drinks. I had a very bad experience with my drinks. My family and I ended up throwing away all of our drinks half way because we were so unhappy with them. they did not taste right at all besides the Mangonada.

Polar Bear Rolling Ice Cream Calallen – Menu with Prices – 14017 Northwest Blvd #105, Corpus Christi

After our lunch at Chili’s my Yelpy itch needed to be scratched and normally I use that opportunity to sample a city’s coffee shop. Given we were on the outskirts of Corpus, I think all the good stuff was further in the city, roughly 15-20 miles. Nah, we’d have to find something nearby under 5 miles, tyvm. Using my trusty Yelp app I found Polar Bear Rolled Ice Cream. PERFECT. It’s a hot and humid day (those dang coast cities and their humidity…), I never tried rolled ice cream before, and this spot apparently JUST opened. We stood in awe over all the flavors available. You could select one of the flavors on their menu (each one with its own cool add-ons like pocky, wafers, etc) or you could build your own. Mom had the Mango Tango, which had mango, strawberry, and coconut. She said it was refreshing and creamy. I had the Perfect Matcha, with matcha ice cream, whipped cream, lychee syrup, and strawberries. Two matcha pocky sticks poked out making the dish look like a green hand giving a peace sign, lol. My sister built her own chunky monkey from funky town blend (as I named it) with banana ice cream, chocolate chips, cookie dough, and peanut butter. Overall we were very satisfied with this super cute shop and we agreed if we ever met up in Corpus again we’d stop here for a treat.

It’s Boba Time – Menu with Prices – 136 S Brand Blvd, Glendale

We were craving boba and happened to be in the area we decided to stop by Boba Time for a couple drinks. The line was extremely long but we decided to wait it out. We ordered the Strawberry Matcha & Mango Peach Smoothie. My Strawberry Matcha drink wasn’t good, it tasted very watered down, not sweet enough, and barely had any strawberry flavor once it was all mixed together. Definitely not comparable to Boba Guys’ Strawberry Matcha Latte if you’ve ever had it. I would say the boba helped add sweetness to the drink, otherwise it would’ve been very bland and not much of a pleasure to drink. I would probably try a different drink next time if I was in the area and wanted boba again. The Mango Peach Smoothie tasted like your average Mango Peach Smoothie at other boba spots. Nothing too special about it but it tasted way better than the Strawberry Matcha.

Midori Matcha Cafe, Old Town Pasadena – Menu with Prices – 165 S De Lacey Ave #1049, Pasadena

I love everything Matcha! I passed this place before and since it was advertising matcha I bookmarked it on yelp. After finishing up at the gym I was craving a cold drink and thought a matcha drink would be perfect. There’s street parking available, but all are metered. I saw a sign inside that says free parking on Dayton street. Once I entered I was already impressed with the store. The interior was done in a clean and classy manner. There weren’t too many decorations, just enough to make it inviting. Their menu revolves around Matcha and I decided to go with their Iced Matcha Latte with low-fat milk (fat free is not available, only 2% and low- fat). The total came out to be $6.57, which is a hefty price for a drink. Since the drink was quite expensive I was hoping the quality was amazing and it did not disappoint. I saw the staff make the drink. They used actual Matcha powder, which based on the taste was high quality. A Matcha drink is not complete unless a Bamboo whisk is used and they did just that. Before milk was added the matcha drink was 85%/90% full! At other locations it’s all about the milk and less Matcha. Once I got the drink I was excited to give it a try. After the first sip I was instantly in love. It was the perfect Matcha drink. Matcha itself isn’t sweet, so don’t expect the drink to be sweet. There is liquid sweetener if needed, but I like my matcha natural. Overall I was impressed with my drink and will be coming back to try their soft serve or even another drink! The drinks may be a bit expensive, but the quality is definitely there. Also it’s a perfect place to catch up with friends over a hot/cold coverage or if you need a study place this is it! Update: I tried the Matcha coconut and it is the best. They use Harmless Harvest coconut water which is my favorite!

Cafenated Coffee Company Menu with Prices 2085 Vine St, Berkeley

It’s hard to imagine a world without coffee. Now, it’s a bit hard to imagine a life without visiting Cafenated. Venue: Ironically, I went to the part cafe/ part garden oasis for an event. When you first enter the cafe’s, well curated setup – from the hardware (coffee tools, walls, ceilings) to the decor (branded coffee bags, rustic table and chairs) – you immediately feel calm and welcome. Not rushed and stressed (like caffeine to light weights and caffeinated retailers can make you feel). Beyond the cafe, the outside patio area really felt like an open green house.  Drinks: I tasted a cup of the Serenity brew and got a cold matcha with oat milk. As a vegan, the variety of milk made me swoon! The matcha had a balance taste and texture. Staff: Aside from the great coffee, I’m also motivated to come back because of the staff. The baristas were sweet and patient, as one of the young men answered all of my questions, and chatted with me about the history of the company, the mission, and the fact that they only source from women coffee growers, allowing them to ensure quality, get in-depth information about the coffee and its notes, AND most importantly to me, pay a fare price! During the event I also briefly met Parisa, one of the co-founders, and her positive spirit topped off the visit. Overall, I will definitely make the trip back when I am in town to enjoy a cup of matcha or coffee, decompress and sit inside or outside with a good book or a friend, and purchase a cute Cafenated kitty mug.