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| - Another place that I checked out because of a BlogTO feature - long story short, I would only recommend going here once for the aesthetic but not multiple times thereafter!
This is basically a lab-themed bubble tea shop where you pick your own flavors and toppings. You pick a hot or cold drink, flavor profile, sugar (white/brown/maple syrup - 10/20/30%), milk, and tapioca vs jelly (different flavors). I'll give them credit for trying a new concept in a city where aesthetic is everything, but they still need to iron a lot of wrinkles out. Honestly it's pretty confusing what flavors you can/can't combine, and the guy at the front explaining can't keep up with the volumes of customers. Essentially you can't combine the syrup flavors (cold drink) with the powder flavors (hot drinks) and can pick up to 1 or 2 flavors depending on if you get a hot or cold drink. I went with two other people, and we all tried different flavors but came to the same conclusion - the flavors do not mix well at all! My matcha coconut milk tea didn't come out as expected at all, and my friends said the same for their drinks.
Price wise, this place is ridiculously expensive. I get it - you're paying for the novelty of the concept but charging $3.25 for a cup, $1 per flavor, $0.5-1 for milk, and $1 per topping means that each drink comes out to around $7-8. The only thing that's free is the sugar, and even that costs extra if you want maple syrup instead of white/brown sugar. There are much better bubble tea places in the city that don't break the bank!
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