Kung Fu Tea on Richmond St. (London) — Restaurant in Ontario

Today, I was taking bus 13 downtown to a bubble tea shop. It’s called Kung Fu Tea and is on Richmond St and Hyman St.

I ordered three things. I’ll go over the Chocolate Egg Waffle first. This thing was huge! I did not expect it to be the size it was. Basically, chocolate was mixed into the batter before making the waffle. It had a lovely waffle pattern, different from the North American style. It had buttons instead of a grid of squares. This costed $5.5. I’ll rate it at 8.7/10.

I ordered two bubble tea drinks as well. I drank the medium Chocolate Milk Tea first. I added pudding to it, which was semi-sweet and yellow. The chocolate liquid was delicious. It costed me $5.7. This’ll get a 9/10.

A tip I tell people is to ask for no ice in bubble tea. This allows room for more of the tasty ingredients, instead of ice which is just water. Your drink will still be cold because the ingredients are cold to begin with; you don’t need ice.

The final item was a medium Taro Slush with no toppings. It was purple and gets its name from the taro root. I always, always get a taro drink when I get bubble tea. It’s just a tradition now. It was listed at $6. I’ll give this drink a 9/10.

In fact, everything was delicious here! Chatime Bubble Tea has been my favourite place for long time, but we have another contender! Kung Fu Tea is...

I went here recently with a good friend of mine who is a boba lover that has been to many bubble tea places in London and she gave this place her stamp of approval! There is a large variety of drinks you can get and customize. I got a large mango yogurt slush with mango popping boba ($1 extra) and the price was great. They only have small and large sizes and the prices are not far off so I recommend getting a large. If you are not playing the claw machines you won't break the bank. Most of our money went towards the many brightly lit large and smaller claw machines with plush toy prizes (good quality prizes!). It was difficult but we won 3 items with $50 worth of coins. The items have a point amount and if you get enough of them you can trade them in for larger prizes behind one of the counters...but I don't see that happening very often unless you are very good at these machines. It was a very fun experience, though! The staff seemed busy so they didn't take our order personally and we had to figure out there was a screen ordering system (like mcdonalds) by the sitting area. The place was very clean and decorated nicely. It happened to be busy when we went because a big family was there but once they left it was nice and peaceful. The quality of the drink was amazing, and they make the boba fresh. Thanks for the...

I came on their second day. Sadly their grand opening was pretty bogged down by the recent constant snow storms which may be why one of the counters wasn't fully set up but despite everything they seemed happy to be there and be up and running which was nice! The employees were super friendly and the food was good too.

I got a cranberry slush, my all time favourite flavour that no one ever seems to have so I give them 5 stars just for the option alone, and their bubble waffles were delicious too (albeit a bit pricey compared to places I've been to in Toronto). I wasn't high while eating it but it felt like I was high because I could not stop chowing down 😅

The crane games are a fun touch too since you don't see that kind of thing in Canada very often! The options were kinda limited as it was mostly generic plush toys but they also included some branded toys as well as figurine prizes too! I think the table layout was a bit odd though and if the order counter and pickup counter were swapped it'd flow a lot better.

As I mentioned before too one of the counters wasn't set up yet but I'm excited to see what they do with it (it seemed like they were planning a prize counter...