They have a wide variety of fruity vs milky drinks. The barista is well knowledged and patient in listening to our preferences when we couldn't decide what we wanted. I appreciate their wintermelon options as not many bubble tea shops offer them. This is a cute shop. They have sections similar to a consignment or pop shops. You can buy jewellery, accessories, tea related items, handmade cookies, etc. While sipping on your bubble tea. Very creative and great way to support local. However, this space does take away some seating options. If you're looking to sip and tap, if the weather is nice out, I'd recommend taking your bubble tea to one of the 3 nearby parks within walking distance. read more

YGO Lab Markham - No in store seating, so took our drinks to the park for an impromptu picnic - Bubble Tea Near Me - Markham, Ontario

I was in the area and wanted a drink, so I decided to revisit YGO Lab. I think it's safe to say that I will not be coming back here unless I'm really desperate for a drink. I tried their Osmanthus Honey Americano and it was terrible. Knowing that there was honey in the drink, I asked for 0% sugar. The drink was incredibly sweet and I feel like I would get diabetes if I left the drink at 100% sugar. The osmanthus flavour and americano did not pair well together. I love flavoured americanos, but this has got to be the worst flavour combination that I've ever experienced. There were osmanthus flowers at the bottom of the drink - I was not a fan of the texture. I couldn't bring myself to finish the drink. There was only one staff working in the afternoon and they weren't busy, so they're a one-woman show (taking the drink order and then going to the back to make it). The wait wasn't long as the woman was efficient. I see other people giving good ratings and maybe it's because we're getting different drinks, but my experiences are vastly different than theirs. I generally don't go for fruit teas and my preference is milk teas and coffee-based drinks. This is not the place for those drinks and I'm sad that I wasted two drinks worth of money to experience less than mediocrity. read more

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3.5 STARS I don't usually step out of my comfort zone when trying new bubble tea just because I know what I like and don't want to take the chance of trying a new bbt spot and it turns out not to my preference. I did so anyway, and got myself and my family some bubble tea from YGO. I got the matcha slush, apple tea and winter melon tea. Matcha slush was good, a little bland, could be a tad bit creamier and sweeter. The winter melon tea was good as well, but again bland. Not as good as another bbt chain, I usually frequent to. Apple tea had bits of apple pieces at the bottom, the whole drink was a bit sour. But it was drinkable. Probably sticking to my usual bbt spots. read more

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Location/Service This place is in a small plaza by Kennedy and 16th. It's in a corner lot by the residential area. There's limited parking along the plaza strip - but I think you can also park along the residential street if it's full. Pretty big sign so you can't miss it. Inside is very bright and spacious. No seating available at this moment. I like their background wallpaper - which has a science/chemistry feeling. Proper social distancing and measurements are set (plexiglass, sanitizers). Staff were friendly and can speak multiple languages. It's their soft opening so bear that orders may take a little longer. Drinks Their menu is similar to other competitors - which include a Fruit Tea, Brew Tea, Milk Tea, Brown Sugar and Cheese Creme series. Prices are similar too - and basically it has the same selection of toppings, ice and sugar level. I ordered the Winter Melon Ade with Basil Seed - to be a little healthy. It's a fixed large size, and I did it with less sugar. I really liked this drink. It has a huge lime in it, which brings out some sourness while the winter melon sweetness also levels it off. The basil seeds were plentiful, soft and easy to swallow. I do feel their quality is pretty high too - would be interested to come back and try their signature drinks to know a bit more about the brand. Glad to see there's more BBT options in the neighbourhood - and so convenient to a lot of residential in the area! read more

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YGO Lab is serious about TEA. Fresh and above average ingredients does make a great difference in the final products. Located in a new residential development just north of Kennedy and 16th Avenue. I never know it existed until I checked one of the food delivery App: Fantuan. I had enjoyed their drinks a couple of times. Ordering is easy with Fantuan which has discount from time to time. So many different options and the hard part is just to pick one! Only open for takeout during Pandemic. So happy there are now more choices for BBT in the area aside from the usual Chatime and Coco! read more

Ordered this via Fantuan delivery as they had really good promotions for this bbt store. I got the brown sugar with salty cream and a no sugar milk tea with panna cotta. The brown sugar drink is fixed sugar so if you do not like sweet drinks do not recommend. This tasted good and the cream was delicious - the boba was a but mushy for me but overall good. The milk tea panna cotta i saved for the next day and it was good however as i was drinking it i found a piece of paper in it... it looked like a piece of the order stickers that are placed on each cup. I was thrown off by that unfortunately read more

YGO Lab Markham - Milk tea w panna cotta - Bubble Tea Near Me - Markham, Ontario

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YGO Lab is a bubble tea chain from Taiwan which recently opened up their second location in Canada in Markham. The shop is located north of Kennedy and 16th Avenue, in the shops at Berczy Square. The shop is small with physically distanced seating for up to 3 pairs of seats. The minimal aesthetic is bright and cheerful with some decor reminiscent of the periodic table of the elements (which the science geek in me appreciated). Like many other bubble tea places, YGO offers brewed tea, milk tea, tea lattes, fizzy fruit teas, brown sugar milk teas, slushes, and fruit based teas. They have fresh milk and oat milk as milk options. They offer a variety of unique toppings in addition to standard tapioca, fruity coconut jelly, cheese creme, and grass jelly. These include peach resin (apparently a chewy fruity topping; extra $2!), golden tapioca (which is supposed to be chewier than standard tapioca; $0.50), and aiyu jelly. Drinks range from $5.50 for hot or brewed teas, to $6.00-$6.50 for most milk teas, fruit teas, and cheese creme drinks. The most expensive drinks include a peach resin green or black tea ($8.00), brown sugar peach resin milk with torched cheese foam ($8.00), and hot brown sugar longan and red dates or ginger drinks with peach resin ($7.75). The staff were friendly and patiently answered any questions I had regarding the products and toppings, as well as staff recommendations for drinks. While tempted to order something colourful or fruity, I saw on Instagram that they had a special on large cold oolong milk tea or medium sized hot oolong milk tea for $4.99. This is what I ordered, with 50% sugar, no ice, and grass jelly (since they were out of golden jelly at the time of my visit). The drink was slightly watery even though it didn't have ice in it, but had a noticeable amount of oolong tea flavour. I will return to try some of their fruit based teas. I'm also curious to see what this peach resin is about and figure out why it's a $2 topping. read more

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First time visiting this location becuase I saw people posted about this place on IG. I ordered Brown Sugar Boba Fresh Milk and Mountain Green Tea + Cheese Creme. Brown Sugar Boba Fresh Milk (3.5/5) I like their brown sugar tapioca and it was chewy. Nothing speical about their milk and this is why I think it was above average. Mountain Green Tea + Cheese Creme (2/5) Not sure what went wrong, but this drink tasted werid with a bit of sour taste. Their Cheese Creme was not thick enough and bland. The tea falvor was not strong so the entire drink was below my expectation. read more

YGO Lab Markham - daily special - Bubble Tea Near Me - Markham, Ontario

We visited YGO Lab's Toronto store last year and was so surprised to stumble upon their shop in Markham at the corner of 16th & Kennedy. They just had their soft opening a few weeks ago. We loved YGO's Oreo Milk Tea + Cheese Creme from the Toronto store and haven't forgotten about it since so we were very excited to see they have opened a Markham location. Drinks/Price: Prices are pretty reasonable and comparable to new bubble tea chains in Markham. Tip: on Sundays, there's free toppings! We also loved the packaging of the drinks and how it alternated from black/white covers. Oreo Milk Tea + Cheese Creme: $6.50 (with tapioca) If you're a fan of Oreos, you'll love this. The cheese foam has Oreos bits sprinkled on top and is super delicious and one of favourite things about this drink. Brown Sugar Boba Fresh Milk: $5.75 A tad bit on the sweeter side so if you're a fan of sweet drinks, we would recommend this. Thai Milk Tea + Panna Cotta: $6.75 The Thai milk tea tastes a bit different than others we've tried but it was really good and not too sweet. Panna cotta was a great addition to the drink (similar to pudding toppings). Will be ordering again! Store: It is located at Berczy Square, nearby Pierre Elliot Trudeau High School. The store is super clean, bright, and we love the minimalistic interior (makes for great pictures). Lots of parking in the plaza and very convenient location. Experience: Staff were extremely friendly and made conversation with us along with recommending drinks based on our preferences and describing in detail the flavours of the drinks. They also speak multiple languages like English, Cantonese and Mandarin. We went around 8pm on a Saturday and it was pretty quiet which gave us plenty of time to take some nice pictures of the drinks before people started coming into the shop. The staff recommended we try their limited Thai Milk Tea + Panna Cotta since we are milk tea fans so we came back the next day to get it! They were right, we did love it. Will definitely be visiting again to try their other flavours! read more

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I haven't had a chance to explore this new mini plaza that opened near my house, so I was happy when my friend invited me to try out their new drinks during a promo session in March (Please check out her review on instagram @ateitforinsta!). The interior of this place was pretty aesthetic, great for Instagram pics like a wall with a "periodic table of elements" and big light plastic light boxes to put your drinks on. Staff were very patient in explaining the drinks for us. The promo was for their newly launched "starry Night Ade" which features soda, lemon juice, pineapple, and butterfly pea tea, a perfect refreshing drink as the weather gets warmer. My friend said it was really good and she'd buy again. I also got lemon yakult slush which was super refreshing as well! Not sure if this place is a favourite as of yet and the prices are on the higher side which I would deem this place as an occasional visit. Must try though! read more

YGO Lab Markham - Bubble Tea Near Me - Markham, Ontario

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Trying out the newly launced pretty, fizzy, refreshing drink called "Starry Night Ade" on March 22nd Sweet pineapple and tangy lemon juice mix with pineapple chunks in the bottom play nicely together in this butterfly pea tea carbonated drink. This magical drink turns from blue to purple when you mix it, beautiful I also tried the Oreo Milk + Cheese Creme - Their cheese creme is by far the smoothest! The combination of creamy, sweet and salty cream cheese, topped with finely chopped Oreo cookies. I love this!! They have a variety of menu from milk tea, brown sugar, fruit tea, fruit slush, you named it! The place itself is very instagrammable, with the science lab vibe decorated periodic table of fruits that ensure you to get the best drink chemistry. Take a bunch of pictures here hehe. DEFINITELY A MUST VISIT BBT PLACE!! Follow @astravel_eats for more cute boba spots read more

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So obsessed with bubble tea lately, especially during the warm weather. We got a slush and fruit tea. Both were so refreshing and not overly sweet, just like how we like it! Definitely coming back, they have a lot of unique flavours! One nice thing about this place is that there's a little sitting area in front of it which is great to hang around and take a lot of pictures! read more

YGO Lab Markham - Left - Yakult Lemon Slush // Right - White Peach Mountain Tea - Bubble Tea Near Me - Markham, Ontario

All my money has been going to this place! All the money that would've otherwise been spent at Coco Fresh, that is lol... Once you've had better quality bubble tea, there's no going back. As much as I love this little place, there are hits and misses. The first drink I had here was the brown sugar boba milk with torched cheese foam. I know brown sugar drinks are on the sweeter side, but theirs somehow tasted unbearably sweet, maybe because of the torched cheese foam? The second drink I tried was the fruit tea slush with cheese creme. Now this drink was good! The tea slush was fragrant and the cheese creme was like a light cheese cake - yum! The cheese creme really compliments the fruit tea slush. I don't recommend getting jelly or tapioca with it though because the slush freezes it up. That and the fruit tea isn't as good as the fruit tea slush (a bit too strong), but that's just my personal opinion. If you're into Thai milk tea, theirs is pretty legit, but i wouldn't get their tea of the week as it tastes pretty watered down. Nowadays, i gravitate towards their strawberry four season tea with aiyu jelly or pineapple mountain green tea with aiyu jelly. It doesn't escape me that some of their drinks are watered down or that i agree with some reviews that complained about them not putting enough tapioca into their drinks. Right now, they have party packages for the holidays, maybe in anticipation of less foot traffic with the colder temperatures and covid 4th wave. By the way, this location has a slightly different menu than the Harbord location (which I've never been to). Eg. Their current Christmas drink features the golden apple, while the Harbord location Christmas drink is eggnog based. This location has also had pumpkin patch creme for Halloween and salted egg yolk pineapple creme for Mid-Autumn (which was surprisingly delicious) while the Harbord location had matcha panna cotta. So if you want a specific drink, you might want to check their instagram first. read more

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This is my typically frequented bubble tea shop! Aesthetics wise, the interior of this shop is cute and somewhat futuristic - with a science theme. Lots of different choices for bubble tea. I often try new types of bubble tea just to diversify - so the specials are always a good bet. My most recent flavours were the Lemon Oolong Tea and the Lime Oolong Tea. Both were refreshing, not too overpowering in taste, and did not taste artificial. I'll be contributing to try other flavors and reviewing, but this is definitely one of my go-to bubble tea shops and would recommend to those who are trying to find a new BBT shop to try. The one slightly bothersome detail about this location is that you need to do a bit of a U-turn within the residential area to get into this plaza if you come from the west. If you come from the east, you'll be able to turn in directly to the plaza. read more

Told them I'd leave a 5 star review, so here I am lol. The drinks are good albeit expensive, but like, in this economy I guess it could be worse. It has a very aesthetic interior and it's clean. Staff are nice and patient, me likey. Overall nice place. read more

I'm a total sucker for things that come in pretty packaging but I've had my fair share of misses when it comes to pretty packaging but the food/drink doesn't taste good. @ygolab.markham doesn't disappoint with their new fruit slush series and adorable bottles with cute home themed imagery. The fruit slush series has 3 flavors: the grapefruit slush, kiwi +passionfuit and the grape slush. The kiwi passionfuit called out my name and was super refreshing and the combination of kiwi and passionfruit was not a usual combo but blended perfectly. The drink was not too sweet and had a somewhat of a slight spicy element to it which I kinda liked after I continued to drink it. The only slight complaint I have it the size of the drink which is limited to the size of the bottle and I wish I could have more as I enjoyed it so much. read more

YGO Lab Markham - Bubble Tea Near Me - Markham, Ontario

Super cute place, with tasty tea. The only issues where the starry night drink you can't change the sugar or ice levels, and there where too many drink options!!! The pan-cotta was smooth and creamy, and the teas all packed a punch. Can't wait to head back and try a new flavour read more

YGO Lab Markham - Left to Right; Supreme fruit tea, milk tea pan-cotta, Starry night, Thai tea pan-cotta - Bubble Tea Near Me - Markham, Ontario

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isn't it just the prettiest I wasn't a huge fan of the taste,, I don't think it was bad but the combo of sweet pineapple x tangy lemon just wasn't for me read more

YGO Lab Markham - starry night ade - Bubble Tea Near Me - Markham, Ontario

Enjoyed their Thai milk tea from here! Tasted similar to nam wan if you've ever been there. Good sweetness to it! Was not the biggest fan of the panacotta though. By the end, there were big chunks left with the tea. I don't know if you were supposed to mix it more but that was difficult to do while it was in the cup. If I got it again I would recommend not to get it with panacotta. read more