Sherry L.
Yelp
I've been to this ShareTea multiple times since they opened, I really wanted to try different things before writing this review. So here it goes......
I'm originally from Taiwan where boboa drinks and teas are literally everywhere. If a place even dares to serve bad tea drinks or squishy boboa, they would be out of business in no time. I was stoked when this ShareTea opened, but after a few visits, I'm not so sure about my excitement for this place.
The boboa are a hit or miss, sometimes they are perfect, while other times they are undercooked. But more often than not, they are overcooked or been held for too long. Their pudding at one point had a lychee taste, luckily that's no longer the case. My biggest complaint is their teas, it lacks the flavor of tea, literally. And their Taro is a joke too.......hell I can make better taro milk drink at home with my vitamix than they can make it.
As stated before, I grew up drinking boboa teas. I learned over the years on how to order them in Taiwan, and how to order them here in the US as the sweetness levels here are much different than in Asia. However, I can order my boboa tea the exact same way at Master Tea up the street on 120th (or 136th) as well as KungFu Tea down on Hampden and they taste exactly how I expected. Yet ShareTea just can't seem to get it right. It seems like half of the menu can't be customized with sugar levels, even the ones that can are sickly sweet at a 30%. I hate to know what the 100% full sugar level would even taste like, or if someone could possibly end up with renal failure just from drinking it. Hell even the 0% sugar milk tea taste like somebody loaded sugar in it.
Would I come back? Eh.....maybe on the rare days that I don't want to drive up to Master Tea or down to KungFu Tea, but in all honestly, I'd much rather make the trek than settle with what this place has to offer.