3.5 stars
Boba is one of the must haves for lots of college students, and Fuku tea positions itself in one of the most popular areas of college campus Pitt to grab that attention.
Fuku tea is fast and efficient, which is really nice for peak hours and grabbing a quick snack. Also, most of the drinks have decent flavor and tapioca is ok, but the drinks mainly lack appealing colors and authentic flavor. For example, the Thai Tea is very unnaturally pasty orange colored, which makes it seem fake and less appetizing. Then, the fruit flavors they offer are also very overpowering. Asking for a peach flavor add-on can potentially change your tea into sugar water.
Which brings me to another point: their sugar to flavor balance is really wacky. They don't bother to think about whether or not certain flavors (eg jasmine tea) are already sweet and should have less sugar to start with. This causes a lot of drinks to be too sweet.
Just the convenience and the fact that boba exists near college is awesome, but the drinks aesthetics and sugar balance could drastically improve the quality of presentation and taste of the drinks.