Tea Brick — Restaurant in Arcadia

Tea Brick has finally opened up in Arcadia, taking over Honeyboba's location. Definitely great for Arcadia students once the schools are able to open up again. I've always thought that Monterey Park's Tea Brick makes fairly decent drinks, but prices are a little on the higher side since you're not only paying for the drink but the reusable plastic bottle they use for the drinks as well.

This Tea Brick just opened up, but already it seems like the interior is much brighter with more open windows and wooden earth tones as compared to the MPK location. No tables/chairs available and they're strictly to-go or delivery; they are currently CARD only so don't bring cash.

I do like their new menus - they've taken the popular fruity tea creations from the MPK's chalkboard and placed them inside bottles on their menu, allowing you to see the colors and ingredients of the tea - this is great for people appreciating visual details! Besides fruit teas ($5.85 each and comes with fruit bits), there's milk teas and matcha drinks, flavored iced tea, soda bombs and mojitos ($5.85), snow milks and milkshakes, and snacks and desserts. You're looking at around $6 per drink. But while the bottles look small, they do fill up an entire 24 oz cup from another boba shop, so that's good to know.

Of course we got the original Tea Brick milk tea for $5.15 and additional $0.60 for boba to give the most standard drink a try. The tea was on the stronger side, with not as much milk flavoring; but the quality was pretty good without being too sweet, even without adjusting for sugar. I do think charging $0.60 for boba is a little much since most places normally charge $0.50, especially since the ratio of boba to tea was a little off (for me). Their boba is a little on the smaller side - right in the middle of a regular sized boba and mini sized boba - but was a tad bit overcooked. The centers were hard, but the boba itself had a good amount of sweetness.

We also tried the caramel snow milk ($5.65 but the drink comes with honey boba). I thought the drink was too icy with not much flavoring at all. There wasn't enough caramel in the drink and the boba was a little on the harder side. After the ice ended up melting, it caused the entire drink to taste quite bland. I personally wouldn't order this again, but my sister thought the drink was alright.

I like that they serve the drinks in the reusable bottles, but after collecting one of that season's designs, I don't really need another bottle the next time I come back. Feels kind of wasteful to always throw them out, too. The drinks that I ordered during this visit were alright, but I plan to try some of the fruity teas the next...

First time trying this place and definitely last sadly. Everything is automated here and you have to order through a screen and pay with card, so not much customer service available when ordering and there 1 system. The worse part is the drink, I tried one of their fruit tea and it was a waste of $6 and something, it went straight to the trash. :( At first it taste like water no mixture whatsoever of flavors, and when I asked for them to remake it (at least nice to do it so thanks), however 2nd round taste like throw-up, just awful, it wasn't worth the remake, maybe I should have kept my water down drink instead of the latter. Parking is free in a small lot and inside atmosphere also very small. The rating is a B, I should have known, no fresh or clean. Overall experience 👎. I was hoping to like it,...

Today is the 3rd time I ordered from Tea Brick, I loved the Hokkaido Matchamisu Milk Tea, it was truly delicious, I always ordered w/ pudding and grass jelly. I also ordered the Brown Sugar Snow Milk w/ boba for my son. Both drinks came with these cute plastic containers, nice design. My previous 2 ordered came with different container designs. I always order my drinks with 50% sugar and less ice. I decided to try their popcorn chicken, and WOW!!! Loved the spices, even though it wasn't spicy, it tasted great, and the chicken was white meat instead of dark. I will definitely be...