Where's the best Bubble Tea in the Lower Mainland (B.C.)?

[bdisagree]

Tell us the best Bubble Tea restaurants in Vancouver and the Lower Mainland, the ones that use real fruit and no powders!

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[AdidasROXX]

how about green leaf on 41st and fraser?

they're fresh fruit drinks use frozen fruits. at least for my strawberry one. hmm..havent gone in a while ;)

[Man Breasts]

It's been awhile since I've gone out for bubbletea, but Estea has a lot of fresh fruit drinks. Oasis and the little tea house are good too.

[misterchill]

I don't know the name of it, but there's a place in chinatown (on the south side of the main drag) that sells really good bubble tea. THe have a big bubblr tea sign by the door, you can't miss it.

[smappy]

Bubble World on Granville Street (depending on drinik)

personally i like totoro cafe on alexander road richmond :D

[bdisagree]

Oasis is great. I usually get the ice cream one tho, will be great this spring/summer.

However, I'm not too fond of Little Tea House, I've had many a powdered drinks there. Yuck. Why would someone pay so much for powder? I'll go home and drink kool-aid!

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[yunez]

spring tea bar in hazelbridge way richmond. Expensive but the best ive had.

[bdisagree]

I also remember buying a Bubble Tea at that place inside Richmond Centre, nears Sears or the Bay or whatever it is. f***, it was the worst Bubble Tea I've had in my life, I almost ready to call the BBB. I don't even know what they did to it. It was super sweet in a not ripe kind of way and I've been happier with crappy powders. I'm definetly never giving this place a dime again.

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[Arrow]

Dragonball, Oak and King Ed

[ud666]

Gotta be the one in Richmond Public Market (Peanuts)

[shumwun]

well, i prefer the powder stuff to the syrup stuff anyday...


but as for real fruit... i'll second ESTEA. they're pretty good, and i particularly like their slushies in the summer. strawberry, mango, lychee..... yummm....

[bembem]

Originally posted by ud666@Mar 10 2004, 11:09 PM
Gotta be the one in Richmond Public Market (Peanuts)
Peanuts *used* to be the best...

But now their drinks are too watered down.

But those little desert things are still good!

[FboyZ]

My Vote is for Oasis (Granvill and Arbutus)... they make the best Green Tea Ice Cream Bubble Tea!

Yum!

[Gdog]

Originally posted by ud666@Mar 10 2004, 11:09 PM
Gotta be the one in Richmond Public Market (Peanuts)
That place is da bomb! Make sure you get a punch card going!
Their frozen yogurt BT's are the best!

[othy]

Originally posted by Arrow@Mar 11 2004, 12:33 AM
Dragonball, Oak and King Ed
Second!

Man that place is packed some nights.. woo! Glad I dont live in one of the condos above..

[GTI]

I like saying "Let's go Dragonball" :lol: Let's see how many people can they jam in there.

[litebrite]

i 3rd dragonball!

and I like the little tea house.. the times i went, i usally get strawberry slushy and that's made from real fruit

[sgtshultz]

There's a new place next to the bubble world on granville. Not sure what it's called. $2 and $3 drinks. Very tasty but the last time we went we saw the guy lick the spoon and use the same spoon to scoop the drink into the cup. EEEWWW. I guess if that guy wasn't working then this place is comparable to dragon ball.

[clboy]

Originally posted by ud666@Mar 10 2004, 11:09 PM
Gotta be the one in Richmond Public Market (Peanuts)
I 2nd Peanuts too at RMD Public market, about the only place around where they don't gouge you on Watermelon Flavored BBTEA.

[kamikaze08]

Originally posted by AdidasROXX@Mar 7 2004, 09:41 PM
how about green leaf on 41st and fraser?

they're fresh fruit drinks use frozen fruits. at least for my strawberry one. hmm..havent gone in a while ;)
Just tried out Green Leaf. Great service and talk about variety of choices! Don't forget to grab one of those "frequent buyer" cards. Buy 10 drinks and get one free. BTW the prices are pretty good too.

[quanvon]

DRAGONBALL!!!! Yum yum.....lychee slush or sesame coffee slush are my favourite.

Bubble World is my second choice. Love the coffee w/ coffee jelly!

[clearblue]

my top three favourite (in no particular order):

pearl castle
peanut place at rpm
dragonball

[zonie]

The place in the foodcourt at Tinseltown is quite good too.

[Degenerate]

You guys are asking which places makes a better heavily over priced flavored tea that consists of mainly powder and syrup?

They're all equally as crappy. When I was younger I liked them until I realized how stupid it is to be paying more for a cup of flavored tea than a beer or glass of wine.

[clearblue]

to each their own..

no one really said anything about price anyway.. someone just wanted to know where the best bbt was.. it's no different than paying $3-5 for a milkshake at a restaurant (well, you get my drift)..

[Curiosity]

Forgive my ignorance, but,

What the ?$%&* is Bubble Tea ??

Tea with carbonated water ???

[DarkAbyss]

Forgive my ignorance, but,

What the ?$%&* is Bubble Tea ??

Tea with carbonated water ???

You do live in middle earth don't you. :O The basic bubble tea consists of fruits mixed up with milk added and pearls and syrup.

[Arrow]

There's a new place next to the bubble world on granville. Not sure what it's called. $2 and $3 drinks. Very tasty but the last time we went we saw the guy lick the spoon and use the same spoon to scoop the drink into the cup. EEEWWW. I guess if that guy wasn't working then this place is comparable to dragon ball.


Are you talking about L&G at 41st and Granville? I went there the other night and tried their mango. It was pretty good; almost at par with Dragonball. Is this the place you're talking about?!??!?

[Ren]

I'll second Bubble World! Their Taro slush is the best I've had. I like powder :lol: . I go to the one on Lougheed.

[Stryder]

It's been awhile since I've gone out for bubbletea, but Estea has a lot of fresh fruit drinks. Oasis and the little tea house are good too.

Where is estea?

[tepidhobbes]

My Vote is for Oasis (Granvill and Arbutus)... they make the best Green Tea Ice Cream Bubble Tea!

Yum!

Just a note about Oasis: My gf and I went there in sept-oct 2005 and the owners have changed. It used to be our fav but we hadn't gone there in a while.

Anyways. This time we ordered our usual lychee and mango smoothie, and they had changed the mangos the use from fresh, to powder. And it was probably the worst tasting mango smoothie I've ever tasted. It didn't even taste like mango. More like really really faint taro.

Anyways, we went to complain and the girl who was working there took a taste of it and then declared that "this is mango." We're not going there anymore. There -is- a Pearl Fever open at UBC now though, so we just go there instead. Which, btw, is really good too - if you've been to their original Coquitlam store its about the same quality :)

[ForeverBlue]

I luv bbtea! Try out the following:
L & G at 41st and Granville...they have punch cards there...
Bubble Zone on Kingsway, near Boundary
Dragon Ball is an all time favourite too!

I would also recommend Crystal Mall's food court bubble tea/juice bar, I think it's called Paradise Juice or something. It makes a very tasty fruit shave ice too!

Estea has three locations I know of:
1. North Road in the plaza near Lougheed Mall.
2. on Kingsway in Burnaby (past Metrotown, heading towards New West, shouldn't miss it, it's on your left)
3. Richmond, near Alexandra Road if I'm not mistaken, I think it's near the Sheraton 4 Points hotel

[litebrite]

My faves are:

Dragonball
Little Tea House

Both use fresh fruit, which I like. I refuse to drink 'fruit' ones at the rmd bbtea places cuz they for sure use powder.

I heard L&G is started by the ppl who used to work @ dragonball. And how someone there had ripped off Dragonball's recipe. So I guess that's why their stuff is so similar...

[whalerjing1]

This place is new, and owner ship has been changed. Pearl milk tea is really good & Green tea slush.