Gummy Boba Latte

Last and, thankfully, not least.

I was really starting to feel like everything other than the Brown Sugar flavour from this company was going to be a bust but this one was actually pretty good. It has the same texture issue with the boba, so I avoided those while drinking it. However, the milk tea itself was very rich and creamy with a flavour that was almost like like a mix of coconut, vanilla, and pandan than taro. Just a little nutty, too. Very, very good albeit sweet. If they sold this and the brown sugar without the rubbery boba I’d probably repurchase.

I’ve had my fair share of bad tasting Matcha RTDs and, unfortunately, this one is up there. Like the other drinks from this brand, the boba within the can is absolutely vile taste and texture wise – like chewing on a rubber ball and having it crumble apart in your mouth. So, I basically tried to drink this while leaving all the boba in the bottom of the can. However, the matcha also wasn’t very good. Colour wise it was a very swampy seaweed green, and seaweed is an especially apt descriptor because it was very funky and oceanic tasting. Also quite sweet, though this is probably the least sweet of the flavours I’ve tried from this brand. It’s very disappointing because I really liked the Brown Sugar, but it’s just been consistently downhill since that flavour.

A coworker found another can of this in the office and offered it to me. Unfortunately, I was very busy and heavily multi-tasking at the time so I only glanced at the can and I mistakenly thought it was the Brown Sugar flavour (which I enjoyed). A few unpleasant sips into the can while running around the office like a chicken with its head cut off and I was sorely disappointed. Did not finish this. One can was more than enough for me.

I was pleasantly surprised by the Brown Sugar flavour from this brand, so I hada pretty open mind going into this one. I like Thai milk tea a lot, and it seemed like something that would transfer pretty well to RTD format. Unfortunately, this was not a hit for me. It’s very sweet which, like the Brown Sugar, is a given for this type of boba inspired drink. However, it felt like the wrong sweetness profile – more like a generic sugar syrup and not the really malty condensed milk sort of note I was hoping for. The colour was also wrong too. Thai Tea has a typically very unnatural orange colour that usually comes from dyes and this was a very unappealing dark brown. It’s not that I necessarily want the dye but I feel like if you’re going for a Thai Tea recreation then, like, go for it. Or, if you want to lean into a more natural take on Thai Tea then do that – but this was neither. It was just like a very, very bad quality Thai tea.

And, of course, the “boba” in this brand is the worst fucking thing imaginable texture and taste wise – so I always do my best to drink the drink without coming in contact with any of the boba at all. I just let them be a mass in the bottom of the can.

One of four canned boba teas I bought from this company.

The brown sugar milk tea that makes up the bulk of the drink was very good, though incredibly sweet/rich. It’s not something I could drink frequently because of just how intense it was, but to be fair when I’m buying something brown sugar flavoured I do expect something sweet and I think I’d be let down if it wasn’t.

The gummy “boba” in the can are awful though. Really tough and chewy with just the worst texture. I guess thankfully they do clump together quite a bit so they mostly formed a mass at the bottom of the can. Sorta gross, but it meant I could enjoy the brown sugar milk tea without worrying I’d get an errant ball of nasty in the middle of my sip…