Beca Tea Uptown Damansara Utama — Restaurant in Petaling Jaya

Beca Tea is Uptown Damansara’s little altar to leaves and hot water, and it smells like incense and ambition. The space is minimalist, zen, and a little too photogenic for its own good, more design magazine than kopitiam.

The drinks are a roll of the dice. The teh tarik is the sure bet: rich, creamy, pulled with the kind of swagger that reminds you why Malaysians fight over who does it best. Beyond that, the menu swings wide into experimental territory: nitro teas, botanical infusions, fruit-and-flower hybrids, and local mash-ups like cempedak matcha.

Depending on who you ask, these concoctions are either refreshing revelations or liquid dares that taste like perfume in a cup. Not everything lands, but at least no one can accuse the place of being boring. When it works, like the Tiger Mum milk tea or the bright Yuzu Sencha, it is sharp, refreshing, and exactly the kind of left-field flavour that keeps people coming back.

Service is unfailingly warm. Staff are friendly, quick with recommendations, and, importantly, graceful when customers spill things. Regulars swear by servers Maureen and Shida, who have developed a small cult following for their patience and good humour.

The crowd is split though. Some call it a hidden gem, others leave muttering about “weird teas” and overpriced bingsu. Fair enough — there’s always Mixue. Drinks hover in the RM12–20 range, creeping into cocktail territory if you start flirting with the nitro-charged or omakase-style offerings. Not bank-breaking, but certainly not the usual prices you pay at the kopitiam. It is experimental, sometimes pretentious, and not every gamble pays off.

Still, for tea obsessives — or anyone who thinks teh tarik can only taste like tea with condensed milk — Beca Tea is worth the detour. It is not just another café. It is a place where drinks surprise, confuse, and occasionally blow your mind. Worst case, you hate it. Best case, you walk out telling your friends you have just had the best teh...

We decided to give this place a try because they have an ongoing promotion of 15% if we have any receipt of eating out at uptown, honestly I should have read the red flags and left before I order. Let’s discuss the red flags.

I went with a group of 6 pax, we went there with no seats available and the staffs proposed that we have a standing table first and will assign seats for us when they become available. However, we noticed that a table that can accommodate 6 became available but was given to another group that came after us without informing us, we stayed standing for the most part until our order came, and they assigned us seats that are subpar compared the one that became available and was very uncomfortable and cramped for 6 pax. Promised but not fulfilled and tried to get away with it.

We wanted to order their baby chakigori other than the drinks for sharing, because we already had meals beforehand and were rather full and we only wanted to taste, we asked for 4 spoons but the staff insisted that chakigori can be only ordered for a single person, and only 1 spoon can be provided which doesn’t make any sense, and they insisted that if we want to order for sharing we can only order the bigger portion, else they won’t be giving more than 1 spoon, forced spending if anything. (We ended up ordering the big portion)

When we asked for recommendations (we are not familiar with teas), we noticed that they only recommended things on the higher end price wise, we can afford it but I think it is just shady practice.

All in all, we won’t be going back ever again, the tea was nice but the experience was very disappointing and uncomfortable. And I cannot recommend anyone going because it was definitely not worth the wait, not worth the time, and not...

Very unique atmosphere like you're entering a different world altogether that's clean, empty with only 1 person at the counter and 1 table in the shop 😄 They only serve drinks, no food, and there's 7 signature drinks to choose from if you're unsure what to order. We tried the signature Squash supreme macchiato and Lapsang souchang (pure milk tea). The pure milk tea has smoky taste and taste nice and strong but I think lesser ice would be better as it felt a little diluted. Same goes with the squash supreme macchiato, too much ice that diluted the drink and kinda hard to consume the condiments in it so ended chewing all the ice in order to eat the ingredients in it 😅 It shouldn't contain ice perhaps but can be chilled.

Dear Beca, Thanks for your time to reply. I'm a fast photographer and the drinks were consumed less than a minute or two after it was served one by one to us. I'm sure many would think that it's diluted with the amount of ice used. Perhaps you may ask the customers of their ice preference before it's made and specify that it's already chilled without ice as all shops have their own way of making drink, eg cannot...