5 stars for my visit for them in person at their brick and mortar shop in Rowland Heights, but I had to dock off a star for the collaboration drinks that I had at anime expo chibi.
First off, I gotta say that I do love the collaboration events that they have with various franchises and supporting the anime community at events. They did the Tokyo Ghoul Anteiku cafe at Anime Expo, a Demon Slayer collaboration and I visited their TokiDoki collab event in store and the Godzilla collaboration at anime expo chibi.
For the in store event, they sold merchandise, had decor all over, and there's a passport to fill out and collect goods for too.
I also love that they have snacks too, so many boba places are drink only nowadays.
We got the:
1) Donutella - Strawberry Chrysanthemum Yakult:
-I was afraid of how this was going to turn out since the collab drinks don't have the option of customization on the kiosk touch screen.
-However I was pleasantly surprised! There's lychee jelly stars in it too, giving a very cute appearance for photos.
-Great balance between the 3 flavors and not too sweet. Delicious.
2) Camellia Green Tea
-My bf got this at 0% sugar and it's a very nicely steeped tea. Nice floral taste to it.
3) Crinkle-Cut Fries:
-Not many places have crinkle cut fries and I got these seasoned. Adds a bit of flavor to them and it came out piping hot. Very crisp on the outside, fluffy on the inside.
-We inhaled these and you have the choice of 3 sauces. We got the creamy yuzu kosho which is a mix of citrus yuzu with chili sauce. Not bad! A bit sour with sweet spice.
-Would definitely get this again, hit the spot.
4) Black Sesame Ice Cream:
-This was part of their TokiDoki collab.
-It's prepackaged in one of those small cups. It's around a slightly larger scoop of ice cream. Nice black sesame taste, a bit icy but not bad!
For the anime expo chibi event, it was a really neat pop up set up. There were city ruins, alarms, street signs, card board cut outs, lanterns on the table, merchandise for sale, and photo ops. Pretty neat.
I tried every drink and 1 ice cream that they had for this event as one was the same black sesame that they had in store.
1) Mothra:
-This is a Thai tea with a butterfly pea layer topped with Cinnamon Toast Crunch.
-Surprisingly really good. Light Thai milk tea with the slight taste of cinnamon and the cereal gives a delicious texture. Best of the three.
2) Godzilla:
-This is a blue curacao lychee lemonade slushy.
-The worst of the three. Super syrup-y and sweet. Very artificial and felt like it made me more dehydrated instead of being refreshing. After drinking 1/3 of this I had to toss it out.
3) King Ghidora:
-This is a passion fruit, pineapple, mango jasmine green tea with passion fruit popping boba.
-A bit better than the Godzilla, probably due to the jasmine green tea but it also was quite sweet and the popping boba just added way more sweetness to it too. Again, pretty syrup-y tasting as well.
4) Chocolate Fault Line:
-This is a chocolate ice cream with strawberry Pocky sticks and marshmallows. Sweet, dessert heavy ice cream. I'm not a fan of these toppings, but it was alright to try out. I prefer the black sesame though.
The drinks for this were mostly a miss. I was hopeful since the Thai tea drink and the Tokidoki drink had no option for adjustments and tasted just fine and not too sweet but the other ones had to be tossed out.
Maybe they were just misses with how busy everything got or it was just the nature of the drinks but I'm looking forward to their future collabs. read more