After reading all the reviews and trying the place myself, I highly suspect that many reviews are reviews from non customers. Claiming its your “go-to spot” when it’s only been opened two weeks, and it being the best in Canada is a bit far fetch.

The shop is nice and clean inside. Staff were very friendly and welcoming. Their menu is very colourful and arcadey. They have many flavours and different drink styles with various toppings. Like other bubble tea shops, you can personalize your drink with the amount of sugar and ice. I got the classic milk tea with grass jelly for myself and the mango milkshake with pearls for my SO. The milk tea tasted good. Not too sweet as I requested for it to be 30% sugar. The grass jelly was however very disappointing. It wasn’t soft grass jelly so I wasn’t even able to drink it through my straw, I had to go home and get a spoon to scoop it out. It was also very evident it came from a can as some of the pieces had the can imprint ripples to it. I got a large which was in a ridiculously tall narrow cup. As you can see (picture below) the straw provided was too short to even reach the bottom of the cup. The mango milkshake was a let down as well. It consisted of real mango, milk, ice cream, and mango powder. Although they used some real mango, the drink was unfortunately overpowered by the powdered mango and gave it a very artificial taste. I think a mango syrup would probably do better in the shake than a powdered flavour. The tapioca were chewy and they gave a generous amount of it but it was not soft like tapioca pearls are meant to be.

There’s a lot of bubble tea shops in Ottawa now so I understand the competition is high. My review is not to bash the business, but more so to give an honest review based on my experience. Luckily I bought the drinks during their promo for 50% off but I wouldn’t pay full price for them.