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| - I guess it is easier to understand the hype that surrounds Chatime in a location like this, instead of the one in downtown Toronto (which is tiny, kinda dark, and always has a slow-moving long-ass lineup that can stretch onto the street--that one's not a location conducive for hanging out).
Here in Richmond Hill, with a saturated market of suburban Asian kids, the bigger and brighter and better laid out place lends itself to encouraging a better bubble tea culture experience. Even late in the night full of locals hanging out here there were some empty tables and a short and efficient order lineup. It wasn't so mad a scene.
The Chatime stuff is delicious, yes. But still, if the excitement with the brand is all about the variety of choices and customization options, as it was explained to me, there's so many damn drinks and permutations of how you want it (how much ice, how much sugar, with tapioca, etc.), it can be more overwhelming than Starbucks in the search of the one you can call your favourite; the usual. Oy! At least this location has the initiative of displaying a popular choices screen.
A lot of people, including a nuts-for-Chatime friend, favours their Roasted Milk Tea with grass jelly (at 50% sugar, no ice--how on earth did I remember that?). After a sip of that, maybe that should become my usual.
{YRT/VIVA: Purple/Pink line it to West Beaver Creek/Commerce Valley Dr., and find this Chatime tucked inside the Commerce Gate plaza in a corner.}
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