Tastea Artesia (Pioneer Blvd.) — Restaurant in Artesia

I tasted tea at Tastea, and Tastea is quite tasty!

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Cooking boba pearls in my Instant Pot for several months now, I don't frequent the local boba tea shops like I used to. It takes a promo & a new twist on boba milk tea to get me to bite. Tastea dangled that lure, and I was hooked!

What Tastea specializes in is customization, the most pertinent options to me at no extra charge. Using the app, I can easily pick & choose just the drink I want. The 2 important to me are-

Base - non-dairy creamer (default), whole milk, oat milk, almond milk Sweetness - none, lite, medium, full, either sugar or stevia

For nothing extra, I can choose a drink with oat milk and stevia. Well done, Tastea! After reviewing my order on the app, it was a quick jaunt to my local Tastea to pickup my order by the entrance.

Horchata milk tea & matcha Thai boba milk tea- My drink was the horchata milk tea, medium sweet w/ stevia, oat milk as the base. Muy sabroso! I haven't had horchata in decades, because of the insane amount of sugar per serving. I used to go to Alberto's, and order 1 or 2 large drinks of the bubbling diabetic refreshment. Older & wiser, I don't/can't do that, anymore. However, stevia-sweetened horchata via Tastea, now I can! It tasted just about the same as the horchata I used to guzzle at Alberto's. It did have the stevia aftertaste to it, but that's a minor complaint, in lieu of all the added sugar in regular horchata. The matcha Thai boba milk tea also received high praise.

Service was good. Ordering via the app, I just popped in & picked up my awaiting drinks. Parking is via a private lot. Tastea is located next to Yogurtland.

Tastea is a hit with me! Having stevia & different non-dairy options available at no extra charge is what sets Tastea above the rest of the boba pack. Along with horchata, they also have a seasonal pumpkin pie drink. Even though I make boba milk tea at home, Tastea will have me coming back with BOGO promos and creative drinks to choose...

Tastea offers great fruit teas and unusual smoothies, and the best sea salt jasmine tea I know of.

I hate to say it, but I don't recommend their regular boba, and I definitely don't recommend their pudding. The first is plain and harder than I'm used to, with no flavor (but their honey boba is good), and the pudding is a disappointment. I thought it would be more like Gong Cha's, which is a soft, vaguely vanilla thing that complements the taste of the tea and has a pleasant texture. But the two times I've gotten pudding in my tea at Tastea, it's been something like extra firm tofu that comes in chunks and floats at the top of the drink.

That being said, Tastea is definitely a solid drink place. They have a great watermelon summer drink, and I'm in love with their sea salt series.

The employees are friendly and incredibly nice, and the decor is a refreshing series of greens.

Bonus: their large is absolutely massive at 32 ounces, so once you find something you like, order up.

They have a loyalty app, too.

Definitely work this into your drink rotation... Just avoid...

Edit: I took away a star because they only have crystal boba which is not the same as ordinary boba, and only honey boba which isnt vegan. How are you going to offer 3 non dairy milks but not be vegan friendly?

I always stop by this place on a hot day after picking up some South Asian grocery! Love their variety of flavors! My personal favorite is thai tea with boba added in. Can't eat the honey boba so i just get regular. Also, vegan milk substitutes are for no extra charge and that's what gives this place 5 stars, because I can get yummy milk teas with oat milk and not get surcharged. The coffee and some of the other teas are great too. Boba is not free at this place, its 50¢ extra, but that's okay for me considering they made oatmilk free. It has a very easy to spot sign, but make sure you dont accidentally enter Yogurtland if you are looking for tea. Its the vegan choices here that many boba shops don't have that make this special. I do go to the LBX one more often since its closer, however they are pretty...