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I got the toffee matcha tea. I am not sure why there was a long line up outside on the day I went. That was what really attracted me to try this place out. I came to this mall looking for bubble tea because I also needed a place to kill time before heading to the airport to pick up my sister from Calgary. I purposely got a large and the drink was full of foam. It was basically less than half full or should I say half the drink was made out of foam. Don't bother letting the people there know because they only speak mandarin. I don't recommend ordering the toffee matcha tea. The taste had so many matcha residuals. I know its made from real matcha but at least grind it finer - please! I came here on August 31 at 8 pm and the receipt says September 1, 2018. Guess the owner wanted to report the income for next month (trying to defer revenue or trying defer GST). Also the receipt is in Chinese. Not sure what it means but ok. Parking is wow here. Lots of parking especially at night time.
YAY FOR TEAAAAAA! :) Do note: This place is cash only. Slight bummer but worth it for the drinks. Made a quick stop here for boba and left the place pretty satisfied. If you're feeling adventurous, I highly recommend trying out the drinks with the cheese / salted cream. You won't taste too much of the cheese but the overall texture of the cream = yum yum. I ordered the honey pomelo (grapefruit) green tea and overall, it was pretty refreshing and yummmmmmy. Wait time here is a little long but not too bad. Definitely would swing by again for the other flavors!
Formerly known as "Le Tea" - this is the original location of the brand, with a second location in Kerrisdale. Located within Continental Center, there is a large parking lot that is often full but sees decent turnover. Atmosphere (3.5 out of 5): I liked the modern feel - though the interior isn't too large, with seating for about 10-15 people total. There was calm acoustic Top 40 music playing. Service (N/A): Ordering was straightforward and the drinks came out reasonably soon. Order and pickup is both at the front counter. I liked the customization available for the drinks, even though that's standard for most shops. Regular Pearl Milk Green Tea (3 out of 5): Even with less ice and 15% sugar, I was able to taste a nice balance of sweetness, milk, and green tea. The pearls were nothing too special, but not disappointing either. Standard texture and flavor with a harder-than-average center. Value (3 out of 5): Pretty standard prices, $5 - $6 for a drink. Nothing too special - overall I received a solid drink for a solid price.
HANDS DOWN MY FAV BROWN SUGAR BBT PLACE IN RICHMOND! I love it because unlike other brown sugar btt drinks, they don't just put regular flat milk, they froth it!! Which makes it taste very fluffy and smooth! Like you're eating a piece of cloud! I also love how soft and chewy their pearl is! To the point where it tastes like glutinous rice balls (汤圆). Although I didn't get it this time, there is also the option to put cheese (奶盖) on top of it!! I've tried their other tea flavoured BBTs and they were kinda bland! So if you wanna have it sweet, make sure you do 100% sweet. NOTE: Cash only or Wechat and Alipay which is a bummer, cause I have forgotten cash a few times and had to leave empty handed. Also, times for the brown sugar bbt is 2:30 and 6! Bring cash and goodluck!
Visited: July 2 2019 On my continuing quest to try every brown sugar milk in the Lower Mainland, I heard this place has a pretty decent version. I will say this; their brown sugar milk rivals the best in Vancouver (i.e. Xifutang on Cambie Street). The pearls were really flavourful and saturated in brown sugar (without being excessively sweet). The milk was on point, nice and creamy without the heaviness. The salty cream on top is reminiscent of my all-time favourite brown sugar milk (Tiger Sugar in HKG) This will be my default to-go place now in Richmond to accommodate my brown sugar obsession.
Honestly since the brand change the quality has decreased :( If you miss the original Le Tea there's a location at Lansdowne and Cooney - less variety and more specialized drinks but comes with HUGE high quality tea bags Got the peach oolong tea with salty cheese cream 8.5/10 While it is a classic, the foam is not as dense before and the tea isn't as flavourful. Eventually it just mixed into the tea base. It's refreshing and sweet and fits well with the creamy foam. Sucks that after a while the foam just floats and it's hard to drink it. Hard to tilt your head back to get all the foam. Friend got peach oolong milk tea with sweet cheese cream 9/10 ~+80 cents for cheese foam to any drink Personally I think the sweet cream fits with the drink as it adds a richness and thickness. However it's hard to taste the peach flavour so it's quite light. Friend got mango milk tea with pearls 7.5/10 Mango flavour tasted very artificial and the pearls were terrible. Not soft and chewy but hard and falls apart. Passion fruit and kumquat green tea 7.5/10 Not a fan, the kumquat pieces are quite sour and don't work well. Wish there was passionfruit pieces but there wasn't. The pearls were terrible. Not sure if this was intentional but the three of us had occupied the big table (meant for 6 - no other seating so we didn't mean to take up that spot) and after a while (20 ish minutes?) they switched from light kpop to loud heavy rap with a lot of explicit lyrics. The music became loud and irritating. We were planning on leaving but what sucked is right after we left they changed the music back. That's pretty shitty customer service if done intentional but who knows. Has anyone else experienced this?
Went here because our first choice bubble tea was closed. I didn't realize we arrived at closing, but the one employee working was so kind. He was so patient with us and let us sample flavours as well. We ended up buying four different teas and they were all so unique. They have this sweet or salty cheese foam, which my friend really liked but I'm lactose intolerant and found it too sweet/heavy for me. My favourite out of the 4 bbts we ordered (for the 2 of us haha) was the coconut oolong! My only wish is that they had a non dairy option, which unfortunately most bbt places don't have either. They shop inside is cute and I love the packaging! I'd for sure go back because the employee was so kind!
Came by after hearing about the cheese lattea (tea latte, get it?) here. Parking is plentiful in the large strip mall parking lot. The venue is classy and modern, though the number of tables is a bit lacking for the amount of customers. Staff were friendly, and reasonably quick. The cheese lattea (I had the rose one) is something quite unique. It's like a bubble tea with cheesecake mixed in. The drink itself is rather foamy (maybe fluffy is a better description), much like the whipped cream on top of a coffee. Not too sweet (there are different levels of sweetness available upon request), and very delicious. As a neat little touch, they even stencil the logo on top of the drink using matcha powder. After drinking the liquid portion, I found myself scooping and eating all the foam out of the cup with the straw. Definitely a good place to check out among the sea of bubble tea shops in Richmond. Recommended.
One of the best brown sugar pearl milks I've had so far! I regularly drink and review bubble teas on my Instagram story (I call it my Bubble Tea Marathon haha) and one of the things I look for in a great brown sugar pearl milk is a hint of saltiness in the foam to balance out the sweetness of the pearls. I definitely recommend!
I love their freshly brewed peach oolong tea with the salty cheese cream cap. We also enjoy the strawberry version very much too! Extra points for their convenient location in Union Square! A nice place to stop by for a refreshing bbt!
Can't go wrong with the cheese latteas here! Obsessed with their peach oolong cheese lattea. Most places would be too sweet with regular sugar (100%) but it is actually the perfect sweetness here. CASH ONLY*
One of my favourite tea joints in all of Greater Vancouver! Tea is carefully prepared, the baristas are extremely talented and make flawless looking (and tasting!) beverages. Their cheese tea latteas are extremely fresh yet savoury at the same time. I definitely recommend them! I never had a cheese lattea until I had one at Le Tea, and the bar was raised so high that no other tea place can satisfy my cheese lattea cravings! A huge bonus is the fact that they open really late, and make for an excellent place to study! I'm here all the time!
I'd never had cheese tea before but fell in love with that foamy cheese sauce when I had the bubble tea toast at Elephant Garden so I really wanted to give it a try. Like most modern bubble tea shops, there's a huge selection of drinks where you can customize the amount and ice and sugar, which I really like. I ordered their recommended osmanthus oolong cheese lattea with 30% sugar and little ice. At their recommendation, I got the cheese sauce salty instead of sweet. It was a bit pricey at $5.25 but I think that's the norm now. I really did like the cheese sauce! I didn't think it would go with the tea but it just added a complementary creamy salty experience to the sweetened tea. It was difficult to blend the sauce and tea together; the best way to drink it is to drink from the lid (there's a little spout like the ones on coffee cup lids) as the motion mixes the two evenly. Also this place had the nicest tea cups I've ever seen. They're made of a sturdy plastic, tall, skinny, and slightly frosted. It's a small thing but makes it look fancier than it is. I also found the service to be really friendly and patient. There were a lot of people but the teas came pretty quick. The only thing I didn't really like was that they had just left the tea bag in my cup.
Exploring around the plaza, I wanted to try out this bubble tea place since the photos looked great from the outside. There was a great selection of drinks to choose from, like the cheese foam teas, yogurt drinks, milk teas and more. Their mango yogurt drink with sago was tasty and refreshing. There was a good amount of seating and the decor looked aesthetically nice. It did take a bit long in terms of wait time especially since it wasn't too busy however, it was worth the wait. read more
Another place for bubble tea in Richmond, I wanted to try something a bit more unique and ended up going with the Kyoto Cheese Grape Tea. It was a good choice as I enjoyed the grape slush with the salty cheese foam and made for a great mix of flavours. read more
I got the toffee matcha tea. I am not sure why there was a long line up outside on the day I went. That was what really attracted me to try this place out. I came to this mall looking for bubble tea because I also needed a place to kill time before heading to the airport to pick up my sister from Calgary. I purposely got a large and the drink was full of foam. It was basically less than half full or should I say half the drink was made out of foam. Don't bother letting the people there know because they only speak mandarin. I don't recommend ordering the toffee matcha tea. The taste had so many matcha residuals. I know its made from real matcha but at least grind it finer - please! I came here on August 31 at 8 pm and the receipt says September 1, 2018. Guess the owner wanted to report the income for next month (trying to defer revenue or trying defer GST). Also the receipt is in Chinese. Not sure what it means but ok. Parking is wow here. Lots of parking especially at night time. read more
YAY FOR TEAAAAAA! :) Do note: This place is cash only. Slight bummer but worth it for the drinks. Made a quick stop here for boba and left the place pretty satisfied. If you're feeling adventurous, I highly recommend trying out the drinks with the cheese / salted cream. You won't taste too much of the cheese but the overall texture of the cream = yum yum. I ordered the honey pomelo (grapefruit) green tea and overall, it was pretty refreshing and yummmmmmy. Wait time here is a little long but not too bad. Definitely would swing by again for the other flavors! read more
Formerly known as "Le Tea" - this is the original location of the brand, with a second location in Kerrisdale. Located within Continental Center, there is a large parking lot that is often full but sees decent turnover. Atmosphere (3.5 out of 5): I liked the modern feel - though the interior isn't too large, with seating for about 10-15 people total. There was calm acoustic Top 40 music playing. Service (N/A): Ordering was straightforward and the drinks came out reasonably soon. Order and pickup is both at the front counter. I liked the customization available for the drinks, even though that's standard for most shops. Regular Pearl Milk Green Tea (3 out of 5): Even with less ice and 15% sugar, I was able to taste a nice balance of sweetness, milk, and green tea. The pearls were nothing too special, but not disappointing either. Standard texture and flavor with a harder-than-average center. Value (3 out of 5): Pretty standard prices, $5 - $6 for a drink. Nothing too special - overall I received a solid drink for a solid price. read more
HANDS DOWN MY FAV BROWN SUGAR BBT PLACE IN RICHMOND! I love it because unlike other brown sugar btt drinks, they don't just put regular flat milk, they froth it!! Which makes it taste very fluffy and smooth! Like you're eating a piece of cloud! I also love how soft and chewy their pearl is! To the point where it tastes like glutinous rice balls (汤圆). Although I didn't get it this time, there is also the option to put cheese (奶盖) on top of it!! I've tried their other tea flavoured BBTs and they were kinda bland! So if you wanna have it sweet, make sure you do 100% sweet. NOTE: Cash only or Wechat and Alipay which is a bummer, cause I have forgotten cash a few times and had to leave empty handed. Also, times for the brown sugar bbt is 2:30 and 6! Bring cash and goodluck! read more
4 years ago
7 years ago
Visited: July 2 2019 On my continuing quest to try every brown sugar milk in the Lower Mainland, I heard this place has a pretty decent version. I will say this; their brown sugar milk rivals the best in Vancouver (i.e. Xifutang on Cambie Street). The pearls were really flavourful and saturated in brown sugar (without being excessively sweet). The milk was on point, nice and creamy without the heaviness. The salty cream on top is reminiscent of my all-time favourite brown sugar milk (Tiger Sugar in HKG) This will be my default to-go place now in Richmond to accommodate my brown sugar obsession. read more
Honestly since the brand change the quality has decreased :( If you miss the original Le Tea there's a location at Lansdowne and Cooney - less variety and more specialized drinks but comes with HUGE high quality tea bags Got the peach oolong tea with salty cheese cream 8.5/10 While it is a classic, the foam is not as dense before and the tea isn't as flavourful. Eventually it just mixed into the tea base. It's refreshing and sweet and fits well with the creamy foam. Sucks that after a while the foam just floats and it's hard to drink it. Hard to tilt your head back to get all the foam. Friend got peach oolong milk tea with sweet cheese cream 9/10 ~+80 cents for cheese foam to any drink Personally I think the sweet cream fits with the drink as it adds a richness and thickness. However it's hard to taste the peach flavour so it's quite light. Friend got mango milk tea with pearls 7.5/10 Mango flavour tasted very artificial and the pearls were terrible. Not soft and chewy but hard and falls apart. Passion fruit and kumquat green tea 7.5/10 Not a fan, the kumquat pieces are quite sour and don't work well. Wish there was passionfruit pieces but there wasn't. The pearls were terrible. Not sure if this was intentional but the three of us had occupied the big table (meant for 6 - no other seating so we didn't mean to take up that spot) and after a while (20 ish minutes?) they switched from light kpop to loud heavy rap with a lot of explicit lyrics. The music became loud and irritating. We were planning on leaving but what sucked is right after we left they changed the music back. That's pretty shitty customer service if done intentional but who knows. Has anyone else experienced this? read more
6 years ago
Went here because our first choice bubble tea was closed. I didn't realize we arrived at closing, but the one employee working was so kind. He was so patient with us and let us sample flavours as well. We ended up buying four different teas and they were all so unique. They have this sweet or salty cheese foam, which my friend really liked but I'm lactose intolerant and found it too sweet/heavy for me. My favourite out of the 4 bbts we ordered (for the 2 of us haha) was the coconut oolong! My only wish is that they had a non dairy option, which unfortunately most bbt places don't have either. They shop inside is cute and I love the packaging! I'd for sure go back because the employee was so kind! read more
Came by after hearing about the cheese lattea (tea latte, get it?) here. Parking is plentiful in the large strip mall parking lot. The venue is classy and modern, though the number of tables is a bit lacking for the amount of customers. Staff were friendly, and reasonably quick. The cheese lattea (I had the rose one) is something quite unique. It's like a bubble tea with cheesecake mixed in. The drink itself is rather foamy (maybe fluffy is a better description), much like the whipped cream on top of a coffee. Not too sweet (there are different levels of sweetness available upon request), and very delicious. As a neat little touch, they even stencil the logo on top of the drink using matcha powder. After drinking the liquid portion, I found myself scooping and eating all the foam out of the cup with the straw. Definitely a good place to check out among the sea of bubble tea shops in Richmond. Recommended. read more
4 years ago
7 years ago
One of the best brown sugar pearl milks I've had so far! I regularly drink and review bubble teas on my Instagram story (I call it my Bubble Tea Marathon haha) and one of the things I look for in a great brown sugar pearl milk is a hint of saltiness in the foam to balance out the sweetness of the pearls. I definitely recommend! read more
6 years ago
I love their freshly brewed peach oolong tea with the salty cheese cream cap. We also enjoy the strawberry version very much too! Extra points for their convenient location in Union Square! A nice place to stop by for a refreshing bbt! read more
8 years ago
Can't go wrong with the cheese latteas here! Obsessed with their peach oolong cheese lattea. Most places would be too sweet with regular sugar (100%) but it is actually the perfect sweetness here. CASH ONLY* read more
4 years ago
9 years ago
One of my favourite tea joints in all of Greater Vancouver! Tea is carefully prepared, the baristas are extremely talented and make flawless looking (and tasting!) beverages. Their cheese tea latteas are extremely fresh yet savoury at the same time. I definitely recommend them! I never had a cheese lattea until I had one at Le Tea, and the bar was raised so high that no other tea place can satisfy my cheese lattea cravings! A huge bonus is the fact that they open really late, and make for an excellent place to study! I'm here all the time! read more
5 years ago
I'd never had cheese tea before but fell in love with that foamy cheese sauce when I had the bubble tea toast at Elephant Garden so I really wanted to give it a try. Like most modern bubble tea shops, there's a huge selection of drinks where you can customize the amount and ice and sugar, which I really like. I ordered their recommended osmanthus oolong cheese lattea with 30% sugar and little ice. At their recommendation, I got the cheese sauce salty instead of sweet. It was a bit pricey at $5.25 but I think that's the norm now. I really did like the cheese sauce! I didn't think it would go with the tea but it just added a complementary creamy salty experience to the sweetened tea. It was difficult to blend the sauce and tea together; the best way to drink it is to drink from the lid (there's a little spout like the ones on coffee cup lids) as the motion mixes the two evenly. Also this place had the nicest tea cups I've ever seen. They're made of a sturdy plastic, tall, skinny, and slightly frosted. It's a small thing but makes it look fancier than it is. I also found the service to be really friendly and patient. There were a lot of people but the teas came pretty quick. The only thing I didn't really like was that they had just left the tea bag in my cup. read more
Been on my list since they opened but finally got to try and it was a bit hyped or maybe I just got the wrong tea. I remember I wanted to try something along the lines of 'cheese' and 'latte'. I searched the menu and found rose cheese latte and matcha cheese latte. I was pretty confident that it wasn't matcha so I went with the rose. I like that they ask for the level of sugar and ice. I got regular sugar and less ice. Probably should have said 50% 'cause my drink had maybe (!) one ice cube and wasn't cold enuff. What I did like was the sweet or salty option for the foam. I got the salty as that's what I tried at gongcha and liked. Also saw matcha ice cream on the menu but the cone is $3.70 whilst the cup is $4...isn't it usually the other way around? It wouldn't hurt to ask if the cup had larger serving, right? So I did and the girl at the till couldn't answer. She told me she didn't know the difference and not sure why the price was different either. So assuming cup = larger serving I got the cup. Apparently, she heard wrong and made me a cone. I told her I wanted the cup and she suggested to scoop it out of the cone onto my cup?? Uh... no if you messed up my order, you make me a new one. Her manager came and told her it's fine and he'll make me a new one. Serving size I'd say might have been the same with maybe a bit more. But with the cone option, your cone is edible whereas your cup isn't. The matcha ice cream is not bad but it's very subtle with the matcha flavour while the milk ingredient is more prominent. Only when I was waiting a while for my tea that I saw a poster on the wall for the peach oolong cheese latte. Sigh... after the whole matcha ice cream mix up, I didn't want to go up and switch my order. Which I could....since they were so slow and haven't started with my tea as yet. But anyways, the tea itself was alright. Nothing special about the tea. It's just water poured in with a tea bag with salty foam on top. What you're really paying for is the foam and the lovely design they put on it. If that makes your heart content, you wouldn't mind coming here. Otherwise, more of a hype than what it is. Oh and Cash only! And no stamp cards or i wasn't offered one. read more
9 years ago
I went there twice before writing this review...the quality of drinks are definitely better than your typical BBT place and you can taste the flavour of the tea. I had their grass jelly milk tea and matcha latte. I like the matcha latte more and I think Chai Time and a few other places out do them in terms of milk tea. The only thing about this place is the amazingly long wait....they have one person making tea and one person taking orders. I waited a good 20 minutes from the moment I finished paying until the moment I got my tea...the long wait is not a good motivator for me to go back a third time . read more
We came on a weekend and of course, service is bad. In their defence, there were only two employees working. After waiting at the cashier with no acknowledgement for at least 5 minutes, we ordered our drinks. The store was incredibly quiet (no music) so it was really awkward waiting there and hearing the two ladies bicker. One was telling the other something about "don't listen to him, you don't have to measure". Probably something to do with quality control. We waited around 10 minutes, which was ridiculous considering we were the next in line to get our drinks. They issue is they take orders and then make their drinks in batches so everyone who ordered after us got their drinks at the same time as us or before us. We order a matcha toffee drink that tasted pretty good, but more than half the drink was foam/whipped cream. The drinks here are pretty decent and the pearls are chewy with a hint of sweetness, service on the other hand 0 stars. read more
5 years ago
I tried their Mango Green Tea. They don't tell you but it's in a slush form and I had hopes it will taste like fresh mango with green tea, but it was super artificial and doesn't taste like mango at all! It was very much like the artificial mango powder some places use for their mango flavoured bbt. After it sat for a while, the drink separated and became super grainy in texture (not the fresh mango kind). Customer service wise, it was only a lady at the cashier and a barista at the back. No one was in the store when I ordered but it took well over 10 minutes. The cashier lady (assuming she's either the boss or the person in charge of the day, much older than the barista) didn't help with the drink making either, she just stood there fixing her bangs. Not coming back. read more
I love their matcha soft serve although they don't always have it. Matcha flavour is just strong enough, not super sweet. Honey green tea is really good too, not too sugary like a lot of other places. The drinks with cheese foam on top are really yummy too, it gives more flavour. read more
6 years ago
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8 years ago
Fresh made tea, good quality drinktry "peach oolong cheese lattea "and "Osmanthus oolong cheese lattea ",my No.1 is "Rosa black tea cheese lattes" and add pearl as well . read more
10 years ago
My friend told me about this place after we had wings last Wednesday. I had no idea there was such a cool tea place in the area. Inside was nicely renovated with a taste of trendiness and hipster style. I tried their peach Oolong cheese Le Tea and boy was it something different. It wasn't too sweet and the cheese on top was very good as I was scooping for more after each sip of tea. They are fairly priced at around 5$ per drink they were good in portion as well. They have various types of different teas and bubble teas as well. If you are not into teas, then you may want to try their ice-cream cones. Service was very good and we spent the night just chilling there. Free parking available inside plaza. read more
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7 years ago
Come here for late evening tea. You can order your drinks with no sugar. Since the milk and pearls can be sweet enough. If you have a sweet tooth you can order extra sweet. What I like are the soda's with fruit like kumquat lemon soda and mint Lemon soda. Best served sugar free for their natural taste and fizz. Staff are polite and you can order in English. After all Richmond is multicultural so why not embrace your bubbleteaness and try something new. What I like best is the wood. I love wood. read more
8 years ago
9 years ago
10 years ago
Very flavorful tea. Something different then your average bbt. You have the options on sweet or salty cheese. Salty cheese matches very well with Oolong tea. read more
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