Boba Quest: Erye Tea Shop

As part of Boba Quest 2025 🧋, I'm trying and reviewing a new boba shop each week.

Unfortunately I've been sick for the past two weeks and haven't been able to go around to try new boba places, which honestly made being sick even worse. But I'm better now, and ready to catch up on all the boba I missed!

Last week I tried Erye Tea Shop in Long Island City, Queens, located near the Court Square–23rd Street station, which provides 7, E, M and G service. In Chinese, 二葉 (pronounced er-ye), means "two leaves", which is also what their logo looks like.

In the beginning of March, regular readers will remember that I visited a boba shop located inside a laundromat. In a similar vein, Erye shares its location with a hair salon:

It's not really the most pleasant place to sit and sip tea since hair salons are relatively loud places with blow dryers and other things. I ended up walking down to the nearby Gantry Plaza State Park and had my boba at the waterfront.

Speaking of which, let's get to the boba! I ordered a roasted oolong milk tea with boba, 70% sugar and light ice.

• Boba: 4/4 it's been a while since I've had honey boba that tasted this good. It struck a nice balance between being able to taste the honey flavor, but it didn't overpower the tea.
• Tea: 2/4 I didn't really enjoy the tea; I think some of the blame is on me for ordering oolong, which I'm not as big of a fan of, so I'm giving them a 2 instead of a 1.
• Bonus: 0/1 mixing a boba shop and a hair salon is really not super appealing

Total: 6/10. I don't see myself coming back here unfortunately, Long Island City is pretty boba-rich and has other places that I rated more highly.