Bubble tea is one of the very common beverage that young adults and teenagers enjoy. There was a bubble tea fever more than 10 years ago and it died down due to the huge number of stalls competing in a small market. Bubble tea makes its comeback a few years ago and with big Taiwanese players, Bubble tea seemed to be staying for quite a while.
Bubble tea is generally red tea with added flavor or milk tea. The term bubble is derived from the large chewy black pearls made of sago powder (jelly kind of ingredient) and you will have to use a larger than usual straw to suck up the pearls. Bubble tea today comes in more than fifty different flavors, from fruity apple to the more traditional green tea bubble tea.
Look at gigantic straw! The queue number is the last two digit on your receipt No.
One of my favorite bubble tea stall is Gong Cha, a Taiwanese-based bubble tea chain. It does not sell the fruity kind of bubble tea, but more of the uniquely concocted mixes like Grapefruit Green tea, Taro Milk or my favorite, Lemon Roasted Melon Tea! It is definitely more tasty than many of the usual powder mixed flavor teas, but cost at a much higher price. But still, it is quite affordable and I always get one when I past by one of its stalls.
The Gong Cha stall has a very systematic queuing and collection process. First you have to select your drink and then place your order at the counter. The counter will issue you the receipt with a queue number on it and you will just hang around and watch the LED screen for your number. When your number appears just head over to the collection counter and collect your drink!
My Lemon Roasted Melon Tea is a mix of lemon and roasted melon, and it tasted like iced lemon tea but with a tangy citrus kind of bitterly sweet. You can choose to add pearls in it too, I added white pearls as it tasted better, more crunchy than the usual black pearls. You can watch how the staff make the drink. It is just like a pub barrister shaking your cocktail!
If you really like to try some localized Asian kind of beverage or when you just need to have some cooling drink to quench your thirst, grab one along the way! Gong Cha has numerous outlets all over Singapore. In shopping malls, MRT, shophouses. You have to try one when you are in Singapore.
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