This is my favorite boba spot in daly city, since I usually frequent Chinatown. Consistently awesome milk tea. And I've never had an issue with the fried snacks being soggy read more

With the previous owners the service was good however now it is understaffed and the employees are undertrained. My average wait time is 20 minutes everytime I come in now. Message to the owner: If you are going to be servicing Doordash etc. then have a dedicated person doing just those orders because it is not right that people with money in hand or those who have paid have to wait 20-30 for a simple order. read more

Boba drinks were ok. I like the cup size since its not to big and not too small. Only one person working there and even if you order online, you have to wait when u get there. read more

Love the local spots! The spot is owned by a family and they have great stuff great location and I love the service

Synthetic perfume like flavors. Snail slow service. Challenging parking. There are better boba tea outlets nearby.

I am addicted to the salty sweet of popcorn shrimp and creamy shaved snow plus a yummy fruit shake. I have never been in the shop but they deliver and it's the bees knees. read more

Refreshing fruit teas and milk teas. Lines aren't long. Before Shelter-in-Place and social distancing they provided board games. You can select sweetness. Only two sizes: medium and large. Toppings: boba, popping boba, puddings, and jelly (all come in variety of flavors). Highly recommend. read more

Fast and great customer service. It's good they have delivery in these times. Really helpful.

Once I entered through the door of FrosTea I smelled the fresh scent of sweet and glorious foods coming from the kitchen. The smell made me want to stay even longer but since the costumer service was so quick I only stayed a while. I personally love this place and I would totally recommend going here! read more

Frostea - Thai milk tea with popping boba - Bubble Tea Near Me - San Francisco, California

A nice little place for a boba fix. I only really come here for their boba, so this review won't touch on their other menu items. This review also reflects my experiences before SIP The place doesnt have a whole lot of people inside, which I find to be a peaceful experience. The service is ok. They're friendly and respectful but they've been slow in getting my order out the past few times I've been there. I like getting their teas without milk, my top ones being the lychee black tea and red guava green tea. I can also add that the caramel and hazelnut milk tea flavors (separately) are good options. please avoid the almond flavor, it isnt the most pleasurable option. The grass jelly is fine but the boba is consistently good. Their drinks tend to be on the sweet side so i usually go no more than 25%. I'm giving 4 stars for consistency. I've gone here for a few years now and they never *truly* disappointed me (except for that almond mt), I've grown to count on them to get me a consistently good drink whenever I'm in the need for one. It's worth a try if you're in the area. read more

Milk teas tea doesn't taste good, I feel like I wasted my money in there. Also, employees are rude and they are not easy to talk to.

I love frostea and the employees are always friendly, hopefully they get more employees for less wait time

I sure hope they stay open. It's never crowded when I go, but they have really good shaved snow! Not shaved ice. There's a big difference! Shaved snow is soft and fluffy and is just wonderful! For $6 you choose a flavor of snow (green tea, strawberry, mango and a few others), 2 toppings (fruit, mochi, others), and a drizzle (condensed milk, chocolate, caramel). Notice how the 2 toppings I listed fruit, mochi and others....that's because I get mango and mochi and don't care what other toppings there are! I like the mango snow and the Chinese in me won't allow me to get anything but condensed milk! This combo....try it. If you like it, you're welcome. If you don't like it...you're crazy! Pro tip: Don't get the boba. Go for snow, get the snow. They also have macaron ice cream sandwiches! read more

BOBA TEA TASTES LIKE CHEMICALS. I got boba tea delivery and it tasted like straight chemicals. I don't know what they put in there, I was extremely concerned. I called twice. The second time they picked up and hung up. I checked and they still had over half an hour before closing! Eat here at your own risk. read more

Food: 2.5/5 Price: $ Portion: 5/5 Presentation: 3/5 OVERALL: 2.5/5 Shaved Snow: Green Tea, Mochi, Popping Boba (Passion Fruit), drizzled with condense milk. This is my 2nd time ever having Shaved Snow and I really wanted to like this place. Sadly it wasn't good, the popping boba wasn't bad, but the green tea was so diluted it just tasted like frozen shaved ice. Mochi was old, texture was hard; they definitely cheaped out with using old mochis :( SKIP Macaron Ice Cream: So even though there is a bunch of different color macarons, they all taste like original flavored macarons (kind of misleading tbh). Ice cream inside was just alright. SKIP read more

Frostea is amazing!!! Best boba and chicken nibblers in the peninsula. Ordering online is way to do it! Love this place so much

I really wanted to give this place a chance since it's nearby, but the tea just wasn't great. I got a strawberry green milk tea with boba and I do not recommend it. It was made of powder which didn't even dissolve all the way (see photos). While the drink wasn't great, the boba itself was decent. The portions are huge but since I didn't enjoy my drink, I couldn't drink more than 1/3 of it. The person working at the front was friendly and provided excellent customer service. I might have just ordered the wrong thing, maybe I'll try something else on the menu next time. read more

Frostea - Powder on the bottom - Bubble Tea Near Me - San Francisco, California

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I was so pleased to find out that a boba joint was opening a mere 7-10 minute walk from my house. Words can't even begin to fantom my love for boba--... This could be why I keep giving this place a chance. -1 Drinks: Drinks are served in "chubby cubs". My main issue with Frostea is the lack of consistency in the crafting of their drinks. The honey boba seems to be the only uniform thing throughout my visits; sticky and chewy enough, but not overdone. I came almost daily through their soft openings, grand opening and multiple times through their first few months; enough for their manager to remember me and sprout up a conversation! I honestly felt like the prime of their consistency was through their first two-three months in business. I was the most satisfied then. It's quite hard to say what drinks stand out to me because what I enjoy one day, can taste totally different the next time I order it. I pop in every now and then and some days I get my boba craving fixed, while other days make me wonder why I continue to pop in. My favorite thing about Frostea is their snow. I know I can get a solid fix if I'm too lazy to drive out of Daly City for it. For those of you that don't know what snow is, it's kind of like shaved ice, ish. Snow resembles a milky shredded ice. It's a bit cream and there's this lightness to it. I'd recommend the mango snow with mochi and whatever topping would please ya! +1 Ambiance: Frostea is furnished with modern, Ikea-like acrylic furniture. It's not the homiest of tea houses, but there are a few boardgames and a television set. -1 Location/Parking: It's a bit tedious to find parking in that area, which is why I just walk. There is a parking lot adjacent to the shop that belongs to another plaza... I sometimes park there when I get frustrated! The location is a bit of a weird one if you're coming in super late. I probably wouldn't go out of the way to try Frostea. If you do, try their snow! You're more likely to leave this place satisfied if you do! read more

I'm not a fan. Flavors were disappointing. My daughter ordered the passion fruit popping boba, and it tasted funny. Actually the entire shaved ice order was off in flavor. No wow, nothing special. My friends ordered tea and even them did not find those good. I give them high scores for their macarons but unfortunately, we won't be coming back here. read more

This is one of my favorite dessert places in the bay area. It's relatively hard to find shaved snow here. They have a variety of tasty toppings and flavors. All of the staff here is really sweet and you see that they have a loyal customers who come here to hang out. Great dessert spot and I'll be coming back here often read more

Got a Milk Tea with Boba and Pudding. Each part was really bland. The milk tea tasted flavorless The boba had no flavor either. Cooked just about right, but no taste I'm not sure what kind pudding they used but it was just a thin layer, maybe about 1mm and was also somewhat tasteless. The staff is incredibly nice and friendly. I think with some improvements on the drinks FrosTea can grow to be a better place. read more

Would give 1 star, but feeling nice, so they get 2 Ordered two drinks and a shaved ice *Almond green milk tea with egg pudding -tastes like water, not enough almond flavor. -Egg pudding did not have enough sugar, lack of flavor -Customer after us ordered almond flavor but they told the customer they had ran out of almond flavor *Honeydew green milk tea with lychee jelly -Way better than the almond -Had some taste to it -Lychee jelly just same old lychee jelly *Mango snow ice with condensed milk and Mochi -Better than both the drinks -Had good texture to it -Taste is not too sweet and not sour -Mochi sucked, is was the hard and chewy kind, not like the other froyo places with the pillowy soft Mochi. read more

Took 30 min to get 2 drinks. Orders seem to be majority Uber Eats and significantly understaffed. Would not recommend going in person, order online instead. read more

Nice cute place. Daly city needs a shaved snow place. Flavors were tasty. Not as fluffy as some of the places in south bay. Games are available to play with kids/friends. But the pieces are a little sticky. read more

I love this place so much. They are friendly and prices are amazing. I come at least once a week to get my Thai tea but today I tried ice cream read more

Frostea - Ice cream - Bubble Tea Near Me - San Francisco, California

Haven't been inside FrosTea but have been dropped off some taro milk teas. I was a little saddened because I was so excited to try boba from a new boba place and found the tea to be just ok. It definitely needs some improvement; It was too watered down and bland to my liking. Maybe I'll have to give this place another try. read more

Frostea - 2 taro milk teas: one made with black tea and one made with green tea....they taste like they look: just ok. - Bubble Tea Near Me - San Francisco, California

I don't see anything too special about this place....we came in wanting hot milk tea and they didn't offer it. I don't know if this is weird to some people, but their night customers may want something to warm them up, yennoe? The place is pretty small so i can't imagine too many people dine in. Plus they don't have their own parking lot so you have to bank on street parking or park at the plaza across the street. read more

Came here after dinner nearby to get a drink and hang a little. The staffs are friendly. My friends ordered milk tea with an added flavor with normal sweetness. The drinks they had turned out "OK". I've had pretty traumatic near diabetes inducing experience with overly sweet drinks from a few other boba places before so I ordered my plan black milk tea with 50% sweetness. My drink tasted really plain and flavorless. I think it's partially on me for ordering 50% sweetness. I also cannot say much for topping as I was too full from the meal I had before coming to order toppings. Pros: - place has some old board game to help kill some time - has samples for people to try - their medium size drinks are pretty big Cons: - just from the drinks I've tasted between my friend's order and the samples put out, the drinks didn't really stand out to me... Tip: try their sample to get a sense of their sweetness level prior to ordering Overall: just on the flavors of the drinks along, i don't think the this place appeal to me enough to warrant another visit. read more

Drove by a few times and decided to stop by this time... Sunday: 1/17/2016 4:30PM There was no street parking so I doubled parked in the red zone right outside. I walked in and there was 3 people. A younger girl working the register. An older lady working the back and a old man doing some cleaning i think. Lucky there was no line. The menu was easy to read and follow. I ordered a medium black milk + hazelnut +honey boba half sweet for my boyfriend and a medium green tea + reg guava + honey boba slightly sweet for myself. Took about 5 minutes for me to get both of my drinks. The drinks come in the chubby cups so it doesnt fit in the car cup holder. Got back home and popped opened the drink. The sweetness was perfect for me but there is nothing honey about their honey boba. The boba is chewy but I think it can be cooked for another 5 minutes or so. The guava is like any other boba shop where it is a syrup. The hazelnut black milk tea is super sweet even though we asked for half sweet. The hazelnut over powers the tea so you cant really taste the tea. There is a lot of boba but the boba isnt good. We understand they are still new and with some improvements it will be better. Purely my thoughts and opinion: 1. Boba can be soaked in honey and brown sugar to get them to taste sweet. 2. Use less hazelnut next time so people can taste the tea more. read more

Huge huge HUGE turnoff was the screen at the back which was set to some ghetto channel where some lady was screaming "what the f? What the f?" Over and over. A rap video? I dunno. I don't know what that was all about but it was upsetting to me. I would have gone back to complain but with my kiddo it is better to ignore it. Such idiocy on the part of the staff. clueless????!!!!! I was in there with my 7 yr old. NEVER going back there again unless the owner clears this up and addresses this, seriously. Also, we ordered 2 drinks and it took almost 20 minutes. What? And it wasn't busy... The guy noticed they were out of green milk tea 12 or so minutes after we initially ordered. Huh? Extra $ for adding your first type of tapioca so it's not cheap at all. Pluses : Clean Good supply board games and such A nice addition to the hood I wish i could add more positives. read more

Watched them drop food to go on the ground and then scoop it back into the container and give it to the customer while picking up an Uber eats order. Never going to even try this place ever. read more

We had the shaved snow, which was good. The service was quick (and friendly) and the menu is a good combo of options (if not a bit random). Our only complaint is the serving was too big lol which sounds weird, but I wish they let us order a smaller size. Overall, I will definitely come here again when I'm in the city but we will need to split the shaved snow. Also, I think next time we will try the hot food because it smells delicious!! read more

It sounds like many people aren't fans of this place, but I appreciate it being there! At the very least, I think it's better than Quickly's. I always get the Rose Green Tea with honey boba every time I come here and I am in love with it! The drinks are on the pricer side, roughly $4-5 for a drink and they charge you 50 cents for every extra flavor you add, which I think is a very questionable thing to do. Their macarons are also packaged, which I'm not a big fan of since it's obvious that they bought them somewhere else and are reselling them. Besides all that, I like this place. It's a nice chill spot where you can play board games with your friends while waiting for your drinks. I've only ever tried the Rose Green Tea, so I'm not sure about the other flavors, but I can say that my go-to drink has never failed me! read more

New establishment that's still working their kinks out. Painfully slow in ordering. Drinks are extremely sweet and barely taste tea. 8 tables, 1 TV, clean and nice bathrooms for local kids to take their dump. They charged for every detail (cup size, tea, each flavor, each topping) so considered expensive IMO. Might as well charge for the straw too! Also noticed the teas are pre made like in quickly. Ewwww! I guess quality & freshness isn't a priority, smh. Maybe their shave snow is their strengths. For $6 of ice it better be the best. read more

Frostea - Bubble Tea Near Me - San Francisco, California

Their drink is good but the ambiance of their cafe is not very cool. Its just a like a store that sells milk tea. They should put some lights to brighten up their cafe a bit read more

This place is very so-so. The smoothie tasted like syrup water. Very limited drink menu. Won't come again.

I ordered a mango slush, but I received the wrong order. It ended up tasting like mango rose tea. My friend didn't enjoy her drink either. We shared mango shaved ice with mochi, but we didn't like it. I wouldn't come back here again. If you have kids, they have games here to play. But a warning, they sometimes play explicit rap/r&b music. If you don't want your kids listening to that, I suggest waiting outside read more

My family has always enjoyed boba teas, so a store opening up just down the street was a huge positive. I have been going to Frostea since Day One, and I continue to go every weekend. The boba that I receive are well made, not too soft and not too hard, chewy, the way it should be. My usual order is a Chocolate Black Milk Tea, and the only flaw that I have is that the chocolate should be mixed better, although all I really need to do is shake the drink around which fixes the problem. My alternative is the Thai Tea, and the flavor of the tea is perfect. Not too sweet and not too bitter. The service that I receive is exceptional, and I am usually greeted with a smile and the wait times aren't long, unless a huge group of people decide to gather around here. I would highly recommend Frostea to all friends and family, it has a welcoming atmosphere and the boba teas are great read more

Still giving FrosTea 2 stars. I warned my friends that it wasn't good, we went anyway. They left disappointed. 2 stars for being a boba spot with board games. Tea: Options are black, green, black milk, green milk, thai. Not good, really not good. Weak flavor. Green tea was SUPER floral, it was like rose tea. Couldn't finish it, each sip was sadness. You might want to order sweeter than you usually would. 50% isn't very sweet at all. Boba is a bit al dente which was actually nice. Personally I dislike the chubby cups. Shaved Snow: Not good, not good at all. Gummy texture, poor artificial flavor. Toppings were mediocre. There is definitely a need for boba in this area. FrosTea is busy, it just isn't good. read more

Was in the neighborhood and decided to get some boba from here. Prices are decent for their sizes but the flavor and quality of the tea is horrible. Their thai milk tea doesn't taste like thai, I don't even know to describe it.. They charge for toppings, even though their boba is rock hard. I got popping boba as well and it had a foul after taste. Their teas and toppings are definitely not fresh. I was so disappointed I ended up throwing away my drink. There are plenty of other boba shops to go in the city. read more