When I was in London in 2019, the line at Xing Fu Tang was very very long even in a rainy day. I remembered waiting for an hour for it. And I felt like it's always busy at any Xing Fu Tang locations I've been to. We don't have Xing fu tang where I live so I always came to Xing fu tang when traveling. I was surprised that there was no wait when we arrived here yesterday, and there was only one person working here. I left to check out another new boba tea in the area. When we came back 5 minutes later, there were several people in the shop. Service was friendly and very quick even though he was the only person taking order and making drinks. We got Taro Milk, Signature Boba brown sugar and grape fruit tea.
The Taro Milk was okay. It's definitely different than taro milk I had somewhere else. Basically, it was just milk and taro paste. And it wasn't sweet at all lol. I actually noticed beverages in London aren't sweet in general compared to US.
The signature brown sugar milk was the star of the show. I loved it a lot!!! It seemed like their signature brown sugar boba stayed consistently. The freshly cooked boba was soft and chewy in a creamy milk, the sweetness was from the brown sugar sauce, brown sugar was sprinkled on top and torched for caramelization really elevated the brown sugar flavor.
Grape fruit tea was kinda bitter ( probably from the decoration grapefruit slice) and didn't have much grapefruit flavor.
I also wanted to mention about their cute little fortune drawers where you can pick one while waiting for your drink. For those who are unfamiliar with how it works, you basically draw a stick with a number on and you find the match number on the drawers, there is a fortune message on there.
From this experience at Xing Fu Tang London, I probably just stick with their signature brown sugar boba milk only from now on. I had fruit drinks and taro milk better somewhere else. read more