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| - Visited here on May 17th for their BOGO opening day promotion. The BOGO only allowed 4 types of drinks, which happened to be their 4 best sellers.
I honestly do not remember about the price - I believe it was around $5.70, which is comparable to its competitor across the street (Cha Time).
My significant other (SO) did not like the experience first time we had Gong Cha back at the Markham location. However, since it was a BOGO, we decided to give it a try again. We ordered Milk Foam Wintermelon (#1 seller) and Winter Melon Milk Tea with grass jelly (I believe this was #3 or #4 best seller).
Winter Melon Milk Tea w/ grass jelly:
The milk tea is nothing special. In fact, I would said Cha Time has much better flavour/grass jelly for this type of tea. What I found with the tea was that it didn't feel particularly flavourful. I found their grass jelly to be really strong, almost medicinal flavour to it. Skip this and stick with the milk foam.
Milk Foam Wintermelon:
Honestly, you should give this a tea try before judging Gong Cha. I believe there i a reason why this is #1 seller here and it really is different from any drinks I had at any bubble tea place. The milk foam is quiet dense. The milk foam's flavour reminds me of cream from butter beer at Universal Studio down at Orlando. Its got dense, creamy, slightly salty/sweet flavour, You are able to either 1) mix with the drink 2) drink out of the cup or 3) drink out of the straw to get different experience. I enjoyed this drink a lot - only thing is, I am not sure what wintermelon is supposed to taste like, so I am not sure if it was the cream I enjoyed or the actual flavour of the drink.
The service, as expected due to BOGO and opening day, was not great. Even when the drink was ready, no one knew if all the drinks were ready for us. We had to look over the counter and indicate to them that the drink that was sitting on their counter for 5 min was ours. I also think they made a mistake on the sweet level for our drink. We ordered 4 drinks (two of each) and some of them tasted a lot sweeter than the other.
I would go back here when I feel like I want the Milk Foam drinks again.
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