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| - I pride myself on writing honest, but fair and justified reviews. Unfortunately, this review will be brutally honest.
I've lived in Arizona for almost two and a half years now and in that time, I've had pretty decent boba in a few locations - one in Tucson. Nothing really matches up with boba from back home in California, though.
I decided to give Bomboba a try. I had high expectations based on the yelp ratings and reviews. I truly believe the only reason it has so many stars is because its customers honestly don't know any better. That's why a lot of Asian restaurants in the Phoenix area have high ratings on yelp that they frankly don't deserve.
My wait for my order was pretty long, 15-20 minutes, which I was okay with considering I had a popcorn chicken order.
Anyway, I ordered a peach green tea with boba, strawberry snow with boba, milk tea with boba, and popcorn chicken medium spice. All the food and drinks were disappointing, but the ones I ordered for myself in particular were quite frankly, horrendous.
When I order a peach green tea from a boba shop, I expect very sweet tea with a generous amount of boba. What I got was bitter, flavorless tea (where was the peach flavor even?), a lemon wedge, and approximately 15 tapioca balls.
The milk tea I sampled was alright and the strawberry snow was also okay. Nothing horrible, but not amazing either.
The true crime was the "popcorn chicken". If you've been to Tapioca Express or Lollicup, you know that the TRUE way to make boba shop popcorn chicken is to use the Taiwanese recipe with five spice seasoning and basil and cutting the dark meat chicken into bite size pieces. What I ended up receiving was a styrofoam box of what looked like huge Tyson crispy chicken tenders and a plastic container of ketchup. I was a little caught off guard but as long as it tasted good, I was okay with it.
It did not taste good. The only flavor it had was spiciness. No seasoning except spice. Flavorless, giant, chicken tenders. It burned my lips with its spiciness and the flavorless tea did little to soothe it. I kept remarking to my sister "this is HORRIBLE" because I was so disappointed. Usually boba shop chicken is a calorie-laden treat that's delicious enough to justify, but not this time.
I really do not like writing poor reviews for small businesses, because I generally like to support them. I know people invest their time, hopes, and money into these businesses. But after having spent nearly $20 and being hugely disappointed, I really feel like I owe it to other yelpers to speak the truth despite how harsh it might be. I will likely not come here again.
I gave an extra star due to the fact that the strawberry snow and milk tea were passable.
Overall, no thank you.
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