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    Shaka Shaka Tea Express

    4.3 (327 reviews)
    Open 8:30 am - 7:30 pm
    Updated over 3 months ago

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    Dan A.

    Located on the mauka end of City Square Shopping Center, Shaka Shaka Tea Express has been here for years. I've visited twice in the last couple of weeks since a hiatus - I believe my first visit was just prior to the pandemic. I requested the pineaple and mango fruit smoothie...and it was very refreshing. Fresh and sweet. Previously, I got the watermelon smoothie with boba and it was very good. Adjacent is a space for various food items, mostly Asian foods.

    Green smoothie with boba and avocado milk smoothie with boba
    Rebecca C.

    Have you ever shop at the open market in Dillingham? If you have, then you'll know where to find Shaka Shaka Tea Express. It's literally right next to the open market. I like to buy my produce and other groceries first and end it with a nice and cold smoothie drink. Today, we got green smoothie with boba and avocado milk smoothie with boba. It's the perfect way to cool off on a hot, feels like summer but not summer days. You can also find other snacks worth trying.

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    Val D.

    I've tried two different shaka shaka tea stores and the consistency and ingredients are a bit different. This store adds milk to their watermelon green tea and blends it so well, that the jasmine tea taste is subtle to taste, but I could also not taste or feel the texture of the chunks of watermelon I am used to at the salt lake shaka shaka store. I like the taste more since the jasmine tea taste isn't as strong, but tasted like there were no watermelon in it, or it was watered down. When I drank the jasmine milk tea here, they added more milk that I wasn't able to taste the jasmine tea flavor, so I didn't enjoy it as much. Their teas don't have much of a strong fruit or tea flavor as it used to when I tasted it several years ago. Prices have gone up a dollar, so expect to pay about $7 for a medium or $8 for a large smoothie or fruit tea. This store is constantly busy, and the cashier is nice. This store is much bigger and has another room named shaka shaka farms, full of goodies to buy. Lots of parking since it is in the Waikamilo center, right next to the farmer's market.

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    Shiraz D.

    I can't believe I haven't reviewed this location yet!!! I have been a customer for over 5 years and Shaka Shaka is hands down my favorites place for fruit smoothies, bobas and now they offer Asian snacks!!! I haven't tried too many of the snacks but I have literally had every fruit smoothie they offer and I haven't found anything like it anywhere else.

    Ordered two boba drinks and the straw broke when I poked it through the hole. I tries to use it and it cut my lips and almost my tongue. Will just stick to my usual boba place on the other side of the complex.

    Jaimie S.

    Nice and refreshing!!!! Thats the feeling I felt when I took my first sip of my coconut taro smoothie with light boba. I tasted the coconut, the taro too. It was a good combo where both flavors were easily identified. Also on their popular flavors list, and I could totally see why. Next door to this place is Shaka Shaka farms, they sell lots and lots of snacks, food and basically a mini grocery store. Its pretty awesome! They also sell fresh fruits in the fridge on the right side of the cash register. The cashier was nice, very friendly and helped with recommendations. She also explained to me some other popular drinks that wasn't on the popular menu. I appreciated that! Their drinks seems to be made with fresh fruits and not soo much powder! Awesome!

    shattered straw. No liquid could be drunk. NO boba either.
    Jane A.

    I ordered a honey dew boba tea. But the straw was so FLIMSY it broke into slivers and I could not get any boba, much less tea! WHY do you use such cheap straws for a $7 drink! Had to come home and pour it into a cup and use a spoon. NEVER going back!

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    Tiffany H.

    Papaya milk smoothie with boba was refreshing, especially when you're biking around on a hot day. Tasted like real papaya and not like those artificial fruit syrups most places use to make smoothies. I actually liked their boba a lot, even though it was on the harder side. Boba was chewy, much wow.

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    Blessie W.

    Fresh fruit boba. None of that fake kine stuff here. The nature of fresh fruit boba is for the boba to freeze quickly but they're smart. They scoop the fresh boba on top so it stays nice and chewy. Orders are ready in no time and are easy to place over the phone or BiteSquad. -1 star from what would otherwise be a 5 because - not the friendliest service - transporting multiple drinks is a pain. They gave me a flat box and the drinks toppled over during the car drive back to work. Thankfully, the lids are leakproof. - ordering off the website, esp mobile is confusing - waters down quickly Will have to do a comparison against Thang's soon. They also do fresh fruit boba.

    Nice vibrant space for young people to hang out
    Ken C.

    I like how you can adjust sweetness. Regular is 100%. We liked 50% which cam out perfect. The drink of choice was a pappya milk smoothie with boba 50%. Nice smooth and healthy. If you have young one's you can get them off all the high fructose corn syrup and into natural sugars in fruits. They have not artificial flavors and use "handmade sugar"

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    Excellent service. Very large selection of a multitude of snacks and other products. Extremely tasty drinks. A must stop.

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    First time trying this place. Was pleasantly pleased with the drink and service. Will come back.

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