Eva M.
Yelp
Meetea has two locations, Seattle and Redmond, and they are most well-known for their boba cheese toast.
We walked in at just before 7:30pm, and the staff told us they were out of boba for the day. They close at 8pm. Too bad, but I get it. It's costly to throw food away for a small business.
I asked which drinks are made of fresh fruits. He gave me a look and said they're all syrup. Mind you, I genuinely appreciate his honesty. He looked far too exhausted after a long work day to dance around my question. I take his words as the truth. He has no reason to hide fruit from me (LOL). Meanwhile, when I look at the Meetea website, they have an image of a passionfruit fruit tea with passionfruit seeds that is called "fresh" in the drink photo There is also an image of a watermelon slushy that is called "Fresh, Healthy, and Hand Made" with a couple of slices of watermelon next to it. Odd...
Anyway, I skipped all that and ordered a Red Bean Matcha Slush at 50% sugar. Not too much matcha, some of the red bean is blended into the smoothie, and the rest sits at the bottom like boba. Too bad, I prefer everything to be blended. I should have asked how they do the red bean part. That's a personal preference thing. Matcha-wise, the drink is pale green color with just a hint of matcha. I like my matcha stronger so this is just ok. I've had better matcha smoothie/slush elsewhere.
Well, it's only one drink, so I'm not taking them down to 2 stars. Ranking them 3 stars for now.