Gong Cha — Restaurant in San Jose

Definitely my new to go boba spot!! The tea is sweet but it's a good type of sweet. The milk foam adds a good twist to it.

The only thing is it's more like a togo place, only has a few seats to probably wait for your drink and take off. Don't expect to come in, sit and hang. On the bright side, price is very reasonable.

Recommend drink: Winter Melon Oolong tea with milk foam.

UPDATE: I have been going here a lot and half of my total visits, they messed up my drink order (forgetting boba, milk foam...). I also notice that they messed up other people's drinks quite often too. Probably too hectic in the kitchen. Make sure you check your drink before leaving!!

Line is long, always outside of the door. But to me,...

Sweet! Gong Cha has arrived in San Jose! As boba tea lovers know, Gong Cha originates in Taiwan and spreads out their ballz all over Asia, Australia - and now Northern California!

With a zillion boba places in the South Bay you think you've seen it all - but have you seen the "mustache" yet?

The what?

It's the milk foam, silly. Imagine latte milk foam topping boba tea - you get the idea. The Milk Foam Brown Sugar Black Tea ($4.50) with 25% ice and 75% ballz (customizzzable) was fantastic, and so was the Taro Milk Tea ($3.50) with 25% ice and low sugar.

Movember will be over soon but the mustache at Gong Cha is here to...

The milk tea itself was okay. Matcha was kinda grainy but the boba was nice. There were multiple staff on their phones very plainly in view of the customers. If they did that in the back, no one would care but seeing them so clearly bored and no one batting an eye makes me not want to come back here. There were about 6 people working which would make sense for a Saturday evening but since most of them weren't even making the drinks and at the register, it seemed unnecessary. Clearly they weren't needed since they had plenty of time on their phones and sitting around looking...