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| - The tea, like my previous review stated was average at best. I decided to order a Passion Fruit Green Tea. Again, not too sweet, but average. This time however, I came for what the place is known for: its ice cream.
They have 3 different categories for ice cream ranging from the Asian flavors: consisting of black sesame, green Tea, red Bean, lychee, pink guava, mango, and more to come.
Vegan flavors consists of vanilla, mango, avocado, lychee, chocolate chip cookie peanut butter.
Then finally regular flavors: killer chocolate, capuccino, chocolate peanut butter, banana chocolate chip and more. (These flavors are all based on the business card/stamp card that will add up to a large ice cream or boba in the store. Like usual places, it takes ten stamps to get one of these items.)
They offer to let you try a sample of their ice cream before actually ordering, which is a plus, but I decided just to get the black sesame ice cream. You can definitely taste the sesame in the ice cream and there's a nice sweetness to it as well. In fact, I can definitely recommend this flavor to everyone who wants to try out unique flavors of ice cream. I even offered my roommate to take a bite and he also agreed that the flavor was unique, but good.
What prevents a 5 star for the place is the fact that its boba tea is average at best. However, the score is definitely boosted by the ice cream. The scoop itself is nice and large, which definitely is a plus for someone with a sweet tooth like mine.
After two tries with the boba however, I think I'll stick more with the ice cream and wait until my monthly trip to California to get boba while I'm there.
Pluses:
-Open until 2AM
-Great selection of ice cream that's growing!
-$3.00 for one scoop is reasonable. I think it's $5.00 for two and $7 for three, but I'm not too sure.
-Nice employees
-It's next to Lucky's for those who need a drunken ice cream binge.
Minuses
-My roommate said the place smelled like cat pee.
-Average boba and tea.
-A more casual area would help create a study environment for those who go to tea places in order to study.
-The store's signs are still not lit up, but the hours sure are. (During the time of writing.)
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