Ding Tea Vancouver WA — Restaurant in Vancouver

Edit: In response to the reply I got from the owner, I think you may have misunderstood my review. WE DID NOT MODIFY OUR DRINK, my comment about modifying it was insinuating that it may have tasted better IF WE DID modify it. But we didn’t. We ordered it off the menu exactly how it comes. We did not ask for extra of anything. They simply put too much and too little of the ingredients in both drinks, mistakes happen, I get that, but they did not taste right. Quite a snarky response as well. My review loses another star.

Cute inside & friendly service, but thats where it ends. It was kind of loud inside so they didn’t hear one of our orders and we had to wait for them to make the missing drink, but they did it pretty fast. The reason this review loses 3 stars is because the quality is lacking for the price. My sister got a ginger tea and the amount of ginger they put in the small cup overwhelmed the drink and made it taste like perfume, not to mention it looked kind of weird upon further inspection. Not really sure if that’s normal, but if it is, we will probably go somewhere else. Also, my brown sugar milk tea literally tasted like milk & tea, no sweetness of the brown sugar at all. If you want a good bubble tea that you won’t have to ridiculously modify to make taste right, there are better places....

I ordered a winter melon milk slush. I requested it to be made with non dairy milk as i’m dairy intolerant. It tasted alright however, drinking only half of the cup I had an almost immediate reaction and i’m sure it’s because there was indeed dairy in the drink. Not the first time this has happened.. the person who took my order did not even specify what kind of non-dairy milk they were going to use, red flag. Even if the drink was made with an actual nondairy milk, i’m going to then assume that the dairy came from a flavor powder, as they almost always contain powdered milk or some other dairy derivatives. Either way, I did not have a good reaction to the drink at all. Disappointing.

For anyone who is dairy/lactose intolerant, vegan etc I would be cautious ordering any milk drink from here. (Or from just about any of these boba shops unless clearly specified to be non dairy). Because unfortunately most of these places don’t care about dairy...

I love how many different options this place has- it's almost overwhelming (in a good way)! Their milk tea still has a strong tea flavor which I love, I don't like it being too "watered" down by the milk. Though I will say their regular boba pearls are a bit on the blander side, no distinct sweet flavor or anything to them. Their fruit tea is tasty, but you can definitely tell it's flavored by syrup and not fresh fruit (at least the lychee). Nothing wrong with that, but could be a preference for some! Their staff is always friendly and quick with churning out orders. They even made a bit too much of one of my slush orders, so they packaged up the extra and gave it to me which was so sweet! Would definitely recommend stopping by! It's super cute inside and has customer restrooms if you want to linger and chat with some friends. I'll for sure be coming back when I'm...