{"id":2205,"date":"2017-12-29T02:08:20","date_gmt":"2017-12-29T07:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/?p=2205"},"modified":"2017-12-29T02:08:20","modified_gmt":"2017-12-29T07:08:20","slug":"la-boba-shops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/la-boba-shops\/","title":{"rendered":"LA Boba Shops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is endless boba in Los Angeles. I currently live in Ktown where every block seems to have a boba shop, a patbingsu shop, or both.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard to rank boba joints, because the drink customization (sugar level) and drinks on the same menu vary so much. There could be a big difference between the house specialty (let&#8217;s say rose milk tea) and the random drink (almond milk tea).<\/p>\n<p>I value the quality of the ingredients (made in house with real things instead of powder), the freshness of the pearls (boba), and the flavor profile (not mind-numbingly sweet). I&#8217;ve tried many dozens of boba joints in LA, and I usually order <strong>large,\u00a050% sugar, and less ice<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Below are places that have consistently good drinks with a sample recommended order. Not every order is your standard PMT (pearl milk tea).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Good<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Gong Cha\n<ul>\n<li>QQ Passion Fruit Green Tea (comes with pearls &amp; coconut jelly)<br \/>\n(fruity &amp; refreshing)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Sharetea\n<ul>\n<li>Taro Fresh Milk Tea with Pearls<br \/>\n(real taro bits is a plus)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Tan-Cha\n<ul>\n<li>High Mountain Green Tea with Cheese Foam<br \/>\n(as a cheese foam drink, it is heavier than a PMT)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Ten Ren&#8217;s Tea Time\n<ul>\n<li>Honey Milk Tea with Pearls<br \/>\n(their teas are underrated)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Twinkle Brown Sugar (Ozero)\n<ul>\n<li>Brown Sugar Grass Jelly<br \/>\n(drinks like a meal)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Decent<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>7 Leaves Cafe\n<ul>\n<li>Sea Cream Jasmine Tea with Honey Boba<br \/>\n(crema top layer)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>85C Bakery\n<ul>\n<li>Sea Salt Mountain Green Tea<br \/>\n(has a good foam\/crema top layer. their boba is bad)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Kung Fu Tea\n<ul>\n<li>Jelly Wow<br \/>\n(not a traditional PMT, more of a meal)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>TPumps\n<ul>\n<li>Mango Passion Peach with Boba<br \/>\n(tea is very &#8220;drinkable&#8221;, not the best, but it goes down well. boba is not fresh)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Wushiland Boba\n<ul>\n<li>Jasmine Green Milk Tea with Pearls<br \/>\n(try 1\/2 regular &amp; 1\/2 small pearls)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>While I don&#8217;t inherently favor chains, I&#8217;ve found that big chains from Asia are more reliable and consistent with the boba freshness. Gong Cha 9 out of 10 times will have fresh boba, whereas your average LA boba shop will probably not have fresh boba.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is endless boba in Los Angeles. I currently live in Ktown where every block seems to have a boba shop, a patbingsu shop, or both. It&#8217;s hard to rank boba joints, because the drink customization (sugar level) and drinks on the same menu vary so much. There could be a big difference between the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[312],"tags":[1366,1170,1367,1368,1369],"class_list":["post-2205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-2","tag-boba","tag-la","tag-pmt","tag-tea","tag-tearex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2205"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2210,"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2205\/revisions\/2210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}