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December 29, 2017 1:16 pm

Hi everyone! So I recently entered Mr. Green Bubble’s 2017 Instagram contest for the chance to win an iPhone X, a $100 gift card to Mr. Green Bubble, or a Mr. Green Bubble shirt! All of these prizes sound amazing because I’m a huge fan of Mr. Green Bubble and fresh-brew tea.
Anyways, this is my entry for the contest, and it pieces together all original photos I took during my travels, which include the background, monuments, and moon =]
Please like this picture on Instagram by visiting the hashtag #GreenBubbleContest2017!

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December 26, 2016 12:01 pm

TLeaf - Roasted Delight
(Location: San Jose, CA)
TLeaf is one of the Bay Area boba places that uses teaspresso machines to fresh-brew their teas. I’ll have to say, I like the taste of tea made this way the best. It’s very potent and flavorful. The Alishan oolong tea is very nutty and strong, but at 75% sugar, it was just the slightest bit watery. At full sugar, this might be a 9 or a 10. The grass jelly came in cubes and wasn’t as smooth as I would have liked.
8/10

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December 23, 2016 12:01 pm

Mr. Green Bubble - Brown Rice Milk Tea
(Location: Union City, CA)
I don’t know if it’s just me, but it feels as if Mr. Green Bubble’s drinks have felt more watered down recently. This brown rice milk tea is not at the level of Chatime or Cool Tea Bar. The tea is well-brewed, but at 75% sugar, there’s not much else there to give the drink depth. It tasted a bit watered down and overly light. This is not as strong as other drinks Mr. Green Bubble has to offer, like their Earl Grey Milk Tea.
6/10

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December 20, 2016 12:00 pm

Teaspoon - Grasshopper
(Location: Milpitas, CA)
Over the past year or so, Teaspoon’s Grasshopper has really become one of the stars of the Bay Area’s boba scene. It’s lychee green tea with cucumber juice, but I’m tasting 90% cucumber juice, 10% green tea, and maybe 1% lychee if I try really hard to imagine it. Which isn’t a bad thing. The overall flavor is light and refreshing, with just the right amount of sweetness and none of that syrup-y, clearly artificial crap you usually get with fruit teas. So the final verdict is that this is one of the better fruit teas I’ve tried, even if it doesn’t deliver on all the flavors it promised.
8/10

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December 17, 2016 12:01 pm

Soyful Desserts - Creamy Milk Tea
(Location: Little Saigon, San Jose, CA)
The winner of the best milk tea at last year’s Boba Festival in San Jose deserves a second go on the blog. This drink is very, very flavorful. It has a complex flavor profile that’s rosy, flagrant, and sharp. The tea itself is harder to detect, and more so adds definition to the sweetness. As strong as the flavor is, though, the drink straddles a fine line between feeling light and watered down. With a thicker texture, this would almost be a perfect drink. The Japanese Pudding is great, and tastes like tofu-ish custard that is super smooth.
9/10

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December 14, 2016 12:01 pm

Tea Era - Roasted Barley Milk Tea
(Location: Mountain View, CA)
The hype for this drink and place just keeps growing, so I had to come back. At full sugar, I finally get what everyone’s talking about when they describe this drink, and I feel complicated about it. It’s so sweet and thick that I almost mistook this for a powdered drink, except I’ve tried it before at half sugar and can taste the barley tea, albeit in watered down form. Halfway through, the nuances of its coffee-ish flavor seep to the surface, and I can appreciate it more for how smoothly it blends the barley and sweetness. Still not as great as the hype suggests, though.
8/10

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December 11, 2016 12:14 pm

Verde - Frothy Milk Tea
(Location: Fremont, CA)
This just tastes like a powder milk tea. At 50% sugar, it tastes just as sweet as their frothy green milk tea did at full sugar. I can’t say I’m a huge fan of this drink, since it’s not super complex and the texture’s a bit heavy. It left me super full for some reason, though I got it with no toppings. Being kind of one-dimensional and overly sweet, I found this drink to be just alright.
5/10

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October 4, 2016 12:01 pm

U-Cha - Matcha Latte
(Location: Berkeley, CA)
I enjoyed this matcha latte. At 75% sugar, everything felt very balanced. There’s a slight bitterness to the matcha tea and a powdery texture for the drink as a whole, which is a sign that the matcha part’s legit. The creaminess of the drink is pretty standard as far as matcha lattes go. Smooth, noticeable, but not overwhelmingly heavy. The sweetness is subdued, not overwhelming the matcha. Everything synchs up pretty well. It’s a pretty solid drink.
8/10

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October 1, 2016 12:01 pm

Fantasia - Green Milk Tea
(Location: Milpitas, CA)
This is one of those old-school green milk teas that’d you’d find from a Tenren or AU79. Very creamy and smooth, with a noticeable and and sharp tea flavor. The sweetness is also very sharp, and everything’s just together in terms of taste. Like there’s not a lot of complexity going on, and it’s just a very solid milk tea with tea flavor and a creamy texture. I enjoyed it.
7/10

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September 28, 2016 8:04 pm

Happy Lemon - Salted Cheese Green Tea
(Location: Cupertino, CA)
This drink was alright. The flavor profile felt a bit heavy-handed. It’s like a lot of the Taiwanese chains feel they have to make their drinks extra sweet in the US, so I should have just ordered this at 50% sugar or something. The tea’s there, but it’s overshadowed by the sweetness, as is the salted cheese. The savory flavor of the creama/milk foam is masked by a really sharp sweetness. It’s a bit too sweet for me, but it’s still a nice drink.
7/10

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