Boba Quest: I'Milky, Easter edition

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

In my first-ever Boba Quest review, I looked at I'Milky, my current go-to place in Long Island City (it got a 7/10). I concluded the review by stating:

Assuming they do a similar Easter promotion as last year, I'll review them again in April.

Unfortunately, they did not do the same Easter promotion this year :( Here's the Easter eggs we got last year (and some burritos):

There were three different special drinks, each with their own egg color. Also it's important to note that these were not just normal Easter eggs, they were magic eggs!

There was artificial scarcity too; only 20 eggs would be sold per day, so you had to show up early if you wanted to get a specific color. The eggs were a relatively hard plastic and make for nice containers in general. From what I remember, the tea was pretty good too, especially the mango panna cotta.

2025 Easter edition#

I don't know why I'Milky didn't do the magic Easter eggs again this year, but they have a different promotion going on right now: a coconut water series. They have three special drinks: a yuzu lychee splash, coco matcha dream, and coconut espresso rush.

I love lychees, so I had to go for the yuzu lychee splash, with boba. I asked for 100% sugar, but he said it would be way too sweet and suggested I just do 30% — so I did. Note that they only offer the specialty drinks in medium and not large.

• Boba: 2/4 the boba and lychee bits were great, but the rest of the topping wasn't. The drink also contained yuzu rinds, which kind of ruined the whole experience because they were such a different texture. I kind of appreciated the flavor, but it was just hard to eat and didn't go well in the boba straw.
• Tea: 4/4 for a coconut milk promotion, I could taste absolutely zero coconut flavor. It tasted like 90% yuzu flavor, and 10% lychee, and honestly, I much prefer that.
• Bonus: 0/1 I'm still a bit disappointed they didn't have the magic eggs this year, that would've been bonus worthy.

Total: 6/10. It was promising, but really fell apart because of the yuzu rinds just messing up the texture and feel of the drink. I don't know if they'll be able to accomodate, but next time I'll ask for the same drink, just without the rinds.

And in case you're interested, I'm told that this promotion will last until mid-May.