review: xiang piao piao instant milk tea
recently, i saw this instant milk tea in one of the chinese groceries store here, which my artist claimed is “bubble tea” according to the chinese words. and being a bubble tea lover, i just had to try it!
instant bubble milk tea?
the contents: a pack of milk tea in powder form, a container of jelly-like thingy that tasted like nata de coco, and a plastic straw…
after pouring in the milk tea powder, pour in the nata de coco and stir in hot water…
poke in the plastic straw and ta-da! ready to drink!
verdict: the milk tea taste is kinda funny, not like bubble tea at all! it’s not even nice for a regular milk tea. and nata de coco as a substitute for “pearls” in bubble tea? i dun think so…
am i going to buy this again? not a chance!
uhmm that’s not the translation. It’s not supposed to be a bubble tea, it’s supposed to just be milk tea. This brand actually makes a separate drink that is a bubble tea with “pearls”!! So yeah I just had to set you straight with how you ended that.
neena lastrange, thanks for pointing that out, but in chinese, both are called “milk tea”. it’s just that those with pearls are called bubble milk tea, and those without are just plain milk tea and normally it’s interchangeable from where i come from. so i must’ve misunderstood my chinese artist when she said “milk tea” :)
oh my god i LOVE this tea!!!!! i havent tried the bubble version yet, but im deffo gonna stock up on this one! it is so much fun to drink!
I am drinking it right now.. it’s like INKA.. why didn’t those transparent things melt? Weird…
lavinia, those transparent things are nata de coco… they don’t melt
where do i buy this in singapore?
sherlyn, i don’t know. i bought them in dubai…
Recently got into bubble tea and fell in love with it at first sip. While this product is convenient, it’s not at all like what I’d find in the boba shops around the city. Needless to say, I understood what I was getting myself into. Sipping it right now; it’s not terrible, but the pearls are rather tough and they stick together. Had to spend a little time separating them. Nevertheless, it’s well worth the experience! :-)
you said you bought this in dubai, do you know where? because im having trouble getting my hands on it :)
I think it was at the chinese grocers in the twin towers at baniyas, near the creek.