Teadot — Restaurant in Electoral Area A

I think they have a very cool selection of drinks offered here. Their fruit teas (specifically the ruby strawberry fruit tea and the pineapple fruit tea) taste really good and always have a lot of yummy fruit in them ^^ Their milk based teas feel a bit more hit or miss. I had a really good brown sugar milk tea here before. I’ve also had a strawberry milk tea that tasted a bit powdery though. I recently got another brown sugar milk tea and it’s good but there appears to be sediment (like tea leaves??) in it which is not great but you can’t really taste it ^^;; I also had a weird experience where i came near closing and asked for a large fruit tea with pearls and one worker told the cashier that they have enough pearls for two regulars and then the cashier turned to me and said sorry we only have enough for a regular amt of pearls is that ok? And then the other worker said no we have enough for a large and the cashier said to him no but what if another regular comes? And they said all of this in front of me which was weird because i’m paying for a large but ur telling me you can’t give me what i’m paying for but then you actually can?? In the end i couldn’t tell the difference because there were still a lot of pearls but yeah that wasn’t really an awesome customer service move there… But yeah the teas are good (esp the fruit tea), they have cool flavours and they frequently have deals so all in all i think this...

Not sure what’s going on with the other reviews, but my experience was not that bad.

I was a pretty picky/tricky customer. They were out of some ingredients, and I wasn’t sure what to get, so there was a lot of conversation back and forth. They patiently and fully answered each of my questions and were quite open to customizations, stopping short of what would taste bad or couldn’t work. They even were willing to take a change in the sugar level mid-way through making the order (though they asked me not to do that in the future when they’re busy XD).

Maybe what’s happening is that some of the drink combos don’t work that well? I got the taro taro harvest with oat, pearls, red bean, 0% ice, and 50% sugar, and it was pretty good. So maybe if you want a “good” first experience, you can try that. I might add a little bit of ice.

Decent value for the cost. A short cup for $7 something, but I guess that’s just the prices nowadays, esp considering how remote UBC is and how well located the store is. And I had a lot of ingredients in the cup.

Good diversity of offerings, some of which I don’t usually see at bubble tea shops, like ube, pumpkin, and sago. They were out of needed ingredients that day, but I look forward to trying their grass jelly and coconut...

Teadot might be a few cents/bucks cheaper than its competitors, but man it disappoints me to see the quality go down every time I come over to grab my favorite drink...

1. Once I bought matcha latte bobba here, and the entire drink tasted like milk left overnight in the fridge without proper preservation. It was flat out gross... and I even got a stomach ache from it
2. In general, the pearls in the bobba drinks are not fully cooked or is suspiciously hard 9/10 times.
3. And to my surprise... today, my favorite drink here is now ruined. The brown sugar jelly is also left in the fridge overnight without proper care - meaning it's not freshly made like it usually was - and anyone could have tasted it

Teadot used to be better than this. I'm very dissappointed in the product!

But granted, the service here is...