Anda Boba Tea & Zensen Sushi — Restaurant in New York

This place is alright. I got to say though its not the best impression while you are ordering and the sushi guy spits in the garbage can right in front you. Not delicately but like snort lugie. Mean while a fly buzzes right in front of my face and why it got a "b" health rating is solved. I have seen worse so I was not phased.

Let me take away the allure of this place: This place runs on cheap powders (which are not hidden in anyway) that you can buy on amazon. They have a great variety of powders sure, but the prices for the drinks nowhere match the quality of a boba tea you can get at another chain (coco for example) or downtown flushing. The powders themselves are fine, and they have a little mixing machine, and my drink came out pretty good, but knowing this powders they simply work on being high on sugar so you cant taste anything else. Most boba places really offer variety of sugar levels, this one cannot based on the them using instant powders.

Essentially Andacafe is marking up the price. The actual cost of the drink i got, estimate is around 1 dollars to around 2 dollars. Thats an insane markup to 6.50 of this writing. Thats starbucks level costs but at least at starbucks you get excellent quality coffee and recipies that make the drink taste excellent. for the size and qaulity of the drink it should be only 4 dollars.

The same is really happening on the food side but I would not get food here. Sushi is lucrative buisness if you can do it cheaply and thats what they are doing here, even though the combo doesn't make much sense. And their assorted snacks likely are the same.

The problem with this place currently is they had a little space to setup this shop during when boba was really taking off and made it. However I dont see the passion in this place at all. The menu is overblown though mysterious still years later but end of the day its still just powders. Whats worse the powders are in plain sight of the customer! There is no mystery if that is the case!

One guy can certainly mix all these drinks but ask what is special about this place if all you are doing is hydrating powders? Or basically heating up prepackaged food?

There are a lot of places near this place that are actually modernizing the American/ Chinese food scene. They are not phoning it home with faux chineese-americain takeout fare but offering awesome experiences and great dining.

This place is fine if your craving boba and nothing is around, but it will never quite be a institution. This place needs to see like all the seasons of hell kitchen, or copy one of the actual boba chains or, korean coffee places or...

I will never step foot in this place again... Visited with my niece for a drink to cool us down on a walk. From the second I entered the atmosphere was strange. The man at the register made little side comments that I did not want a large size, it was 8:00 P.M and we just wanted a small drink and it came across extremely rude and entitled. We waited about 10-15 minutes for our drink. We ordered a taro milk tea and a taro Oreo slush. The guy accidentally made a coconut drink and asked me if that was fine, I kindly requested to receive the original drink I had purchased and they scuffed and gave me my drink about 5 minutes later. However they still made my drink wrong... I had specifically requested no toppings and after the whole ordeal he made me a taro milk tea instead of the slush we had been waiting for. At this point I told them it was fine and would accept the drink as is, there was no apology on their end and they acted as if we had inconvenienced them. At this point I was just so unhappy, a supposed to be small treat on a hot walk had turned into such unpleasant experience. I used to enjoy this place I am not sure what exactly was going on today. The man working there seemed to be the owner and didn't seem like he wanted to be...

I'm going to be honest, the main reason I went inside this restaurant was because of their name. Is it Anda or Panda? Anyway, I'm glad I went in.

They have a pretty good selection of bubble teas and snacks. This place is fairly small but bright and airy and clean since they just opened last month. The back area is a small grocery store of sorts that sells more Asian snacks, drinks and ice cream. I only gave this section a quick glance on my first visit. I was mainly interested in the front area where they sell bubble tea, small plates of food and sushi.

I ordered their Thai-ro milk tea and salmon avocado roll. The sushi roll was decent. The Thai-ro was seriously delicious and very pretty to look at. It's a combo of Thai ice tea and taro flavor. Had no idea that these two flavors would mesh so well. I can't wait to go back and try some other flavors...