Tea World — Restaurant in South San Francisco

This was a cute little place. I liked that they served Mitchell's ice cream my favorite. What really caught my attention was Aluwalu (Philippine halo halo). What I really liked that it said it had sweet plantains, jackfruit, macapuno, and a leche flan. Sadly when I got it, it was super sweet. Sweet plantains were hard and everything just tasted like it was out of a jar. A little disappointing to say the least. I ended up just drinking all the sweet milk and called it a day. For $6 it wasn't bad but I most likely won't try it again. I'll probably just go for the...

Very scrumdiddilyumptious. The boba was soft and chewy. There were lots of flavors to choose from and you can customize a lot. My daughter got a small horchata with milk, oolong base tea and honey boba. My son got a medium green tea based matcha flavored milk tea with honey boba. Ice cream is very good too. The scoop of ice cream was quite gargantuas and tasty. We got matcha flavored. Each tea that you purchase will earn you a stamp. If you have 10 stamps you will get a free item like tea or ice cream. They also have free samples. ...

We came to visit this shop after our Filipino lunch and thought we would give their ube flavor and Americano a try.

Among all the flavors we chose, the coconut with pineapple was to our liking in terms of taste, and the rest was just okay. The creaminess and consistency were just not there. We had to wait for 2 minutes or so to let the ice cream melt, and each scoop was extremely frozen. It was very unpleasant that while they offered coffee, we were not pleased with the boldness and strength of the coffee itself.

It was...