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| - 3.5 stars. My friend and I came around 10pm on a Saturday night and ordered their Meet Fresh Signature (cold), which had herbal jelly, taro & sweet potato balls, and cream on top of shaved ice. The shaved ice is Taiwanese-styled so it's slushier & icier than a bingsu, and is flavored w/ brown sugar syrup & cream. It was a nice contrast to the grass jelly, which was very smooth & delicate. And I liked that the latter wasn't overly bitter or sweet. The cream also added another layer of depth to the bowl, both texture & flavor-wise, and bonded well w/ the rest of the ingredients. In terms of the taro & sweet potato balls, both were fresh & suitably chewy, but the flavor of the sweet potato balls was not nearly as condensed as the taro one. I actually wasn't sure if it was sweet potatoes or squash, and that was deduced from the orange color. Nonetheless, it was a good bowl of dessert and I would come back for it.
The bigger issue though was the wait time, which I've -0.5 stars for. The line-up to order wasn't too bad, but after placing our order, we had to wait 20 mins for that one bowl-- which they just needed to scoop the ingredients in. Two lines of customers ordered and left with their food before we got ours. Maybe they forgot our order but it was ridiculous; I'll just be getting take-out next time.
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