Very cutie spot! Love the ambiance when we came in, the seating is very unique, cute, and…read morecomfortable. If you're looking for your knees to pop a little when you sit down, this is the place for you haha. Go support your local small businesses! I got the ube ice milk at 50% sugar and it was delish! There's only one size and it's pretty big. I definitely recommend mixing it super well with the coated ube on the sides of the cup, otherwise you're just gonna taste the milk. I loved it though cause it felt like I was getting different layers of the drink based on how much ube I had mixed in- very high quality milk and drink. I would totally recommend! My roommate got their strawberry matcha, and we watched them make their matcha and 100% authentic, it's not just some concentrate, we watched them mix the matcha with the designated whisk- super high quality and she loved it too. I had a sip and their boba quality is also 10/10, super super chewy and nice! The guy behind the counter was also really kind- very quick service, patient with you as you look at their wonderful menu. You can also ask to sample some of their toppings to make a well-informed decision for yourself. They also have little gifts you can buy in the form of tea, popping boba, or even cute boba/drink carriers. Also, they have a cute interactive wall where you can write a note or draw some pictures. Would be back again! Personally think it would be fun if there were also board games around too!

| Overview + Brown…read moreSugar Ice Milk is deliciously creamy + Boba texture is perfect + Decent milk tea size in a cute cup with "ears" + Good selection of fruit teas, smoothies & iced coffee drinks + Cool ambiance + Fast customer service - Boba cost extra for Brown Sugar Ice Milk - Taro milk tea here is made of powder / other ingredients look artificial - Various toppings in the open - are they clean? - Menu is purely drinks; no desserts or snacks | Full Review Located in a corner of the Hope Valley Commons shopping area, Bapu Teahouse Durham looks inviting from the outside with its cool boba milk tea structure by the cafe's front door, showing Bapu's simple logo outside. Bapu's ambiance inside looks artsy, with cute aesthetics and cool atmosphere. What stood out to me was the assortment of toppings displayed. The good thing: they look pretty colorful and fresh; the not-so-good thing: they're uncovered, so I'm not sure if they're clean. Nonetheless, it's convenient to see the different topping options you can add to your milk tea. I noticed Bapu uses the artificial purple taro powder for its milk tea instead of taro paste, so I eliminated that choice from my milk tea selection process. There was only one young employee who took orders and also made the milk teas when I went, but his customer service was good as he made fine recommendations and served my order fast. Unlike Boba Baba's eye-aching menu screens, Bapu Teahouse's menu overhead looks clear with photos, highlighting its special drinks. There are no kiosks here, so you'd have to order face-to-face. As the server recommended, I ordered the Brown Sugar Ice Milk (75% sweetness, light ice). It doesn't look as Instagram-worthy as Tiger Sugar's brown sugar milk teas, but it looks yummy enough, with brown sugar syrup clearly visible in Bapu's cute & translucent cup with ears. Bapu only serves 1 size for its drinks. When I ordered this, the server asked if I wanted boba. Most decent milk tea cafes I go to automatically already have the basic tapioca pearls or boba by default in their brown sugar milk tea drinks but Bapu charges extra for that. Brown Sugar Ice Milk is listed as $6. With the boba topping, I ended up paying a total of $7.76, which is slightly higher than average price of brown sugar boba milk teas in cafes I've been to. Compare that to Feng Cha in Morrisville, which offers Dirty Boba (brown sugar milk tea for only $6.25 with the boba already included, so Bapu's pricing here sounds like a joke. To be fair, the size of the cup is large enough, with its cute top that reminds me of Doraemon or Hello Kitty. The material of it doesn't look cheap and it feels fun to hold. The sweetness of the brown sugar flavor was just right. It might have been too sweet if it was set to 100% sweetness level, and it's still probably slightly sweet at 50% but my usual preference of 75% for any brown sugar milk tea was perfect here. The milk was deliciously-creamy with the fresh & chewy boba - perfect texture. Server did a good job blending with just the right amount of ice, good amount of brown sugar syrup & boba. It's not on the same level as Boba Baba's Brown Sugar Boba or Tiger Sugar's brown sugar drinks but it's better than many mediocre brown sugar milk teas I've tried in other cafes. Bapu Teahouse's menu is purely drinks, with a nice variety of milk teas, fruit teas, smoothies & iced coffee. Sadly, there are no snack or non-drink dessert options here that you can pair with your milk tea. It's not a big deal if you're only craving for a drink, and it looks like Bapu has a good selection of toppings to customize your order. Just prepare to pay extra for those. | Overall Score: 3.4/5 | Recommended Alternative: Sharetea in Morrisville

Amazing as always! Customer service is great and the employee even offered to remake my Nutella…read moretaiyaki if it was too dark for my liking - which it wasn't. Their rolled ice cream combinations are tasty but the made to order taiyaki truly takes the cake. Nice and crispy on the outside that gives away to warm and gooey Nutella. It is smoking hot immediately but hard to wait, hence the vanilla ice cream! The space was nice and bright, clean, and welcoming. They have redone their seating to include a couch which is very comfortable and can comfortably seat different parties with space in between. Always a treat and can't wait to be back.

Stopped here after dinner with my husband. We shared a hand rolled ice cream…read more I must say that I don't get the hype and all the extremely positive reviews. We waited 20 minutes for our "hand rolled" Dubai chocolate ice cream. The vanilla ice cream base was very meh. I've had better vanilla ice cream from the grocery store. The toppings were also meh. I have had chocolate Dubai gelato before and been absolutely wowed. The only wow I have for this place is that it was actually busy and that it has so many great reviews.

Great variety of food, excited to go back and try more things! We really enjoyed the hibachi and…read moresushi!

Peyton provided amazing service and the ambiance was very nice. The food was delicious! We will be…read moreback!

The worker was so sweet and helpful. The cafe was set up very welcoming and friendly. I got the…read morebrown sugar lava tea and it was very good! Not too sweet or plain. I only give 4 stars because the menu offered a lot of options they no longer had as far as food goes. Would go back again.

You know you're in a solid Taiwanese spot when the speakers are blasting a piano cover of 童话 when…read moreyou walk in. The decor and the smells are all reminiscent of my youth - kind of like that scene in Ratatouille where Ego takes his first bite and gets flashbacks. The thing is though, while everything is passably good, almost every dish or drink has something that is just off enough to miss the mark. For example, the braised pork bowl has lettuce and not cabbage and was quite oily. The popcorn chicken had no basil, and the boba was just lacking in depth. Overall, it's a spot I would really love to love - but it's just not offering quite enough to be on my list of go-to spots. That being said, the service is very kind - a friend had an issue with her drink and it was promptly replaced without question.

Service: they were fairly quick with the smoothies! But if you want to have it fast, go for the…read morefro-yo bar instead and pick your fav fro-yo and toppings. The toppings bar is clean and well managed so it was great to choose from without getting messy. The different flavors were great too! All the fro-yo was smooth, creamy, and didn't taste like perfume lol. The smoothies are more heavy on the yogurt side than the flavor. So ask for more fruit than yogurt when you get it. Ambiance: it's a great place to for a 2nd date maybe lol. Just for a quick dessert. Or even bring the kids as you can get them to choose their own toppings. Overall: would come again!

A bunch of things could improve basically me and my friend went in here and Who was after watching…read morea movie. We were really really craving some frozen yogurt specifically tart frozen yogurt when we went in we both tried different flavors and immediately we turned to each other and we both had more eyebrow raised we then tried another different flavor one new flavor each and we thought then at the same time we looked at each other and we were like does this taste... Spoiled rotten? And it did it turns out that our frozen yogurt were sour and fizzy and that leads us to believe that there was some fermentation happening now maybe the manager forgot to turn the fridge on overnight I don't know what happened, but something was wrong. When I asked the girl working at the counter. She seemed a little bit nervous so you know I didn't really push that hard but definitely something needs to change

Cute shop serving plenty of different drinks, entrees and snack and pastries. I ordered Togo but…read morereally enjoyed my strawberry matcha milk and edamame. I would return to try a food item and another drink. The ambiance is very calm and relaxing. I could see myself working remotely from there.

It was good, not a bad price. Nice service . After a while the tapioca tasted a tad weird to me…read moremaybe because it was freshly made, or the syrup idk. Ended up feeling nauseous after drinking it too so it was a little weird but again maybe that's just how it usually tastes and I'm unaware because I've never had it but whenever I get bubble tea in Durham I always feel sick after .. may try again though

The sweet tea was amazing! We got the tiger woods drink and the OG liquid sunshine. The lemonade in…read morethe tiger woods mixed perfectly with the sweet tea and created one of the best cold drinks I've had. Roman, the guy behind the counter, was incredibly kind and got our drinks done really quickly. He told us about how he makes each batch and what goes into it. It was sweet hearing his story about his grandma. Well worth stopping by!

I always get the Liquid sunshine (sweat tea) and it is AMAZING. Best sweet tea ever. I grew up…read moredrinking sweet tea and this one is not too sweet with fresh mint and just delicious. I also have gotten there pastries which are great. I also got the chicken sausage hot dog with kimchi and it was BOMB. Great service and really sweet owner. Love this location and I hope the Sweet Tea Cafe stays forever!

Loved this place for the layout, clean, and variety of flavors…read more Bathrooms not particularly clean but had a foot rest for kids which was nice.

The yogurt is great, but the prices are exorbitant! I came here by myself today and got a 16-ounce…read morecup of yogurt, which I thought was a reasonable amount. I topped it with a few strawberries and a little bit of kiwi. My cup cost almost $13! When I asked about the price, guy behind the counter kindly pointed to the price, and apparently, it's $.89 an ounce. I like the yogurt, and the shop is clean, but I don't like the prices, and I don't think I'll be back. It's just too expensive!