After nearly seven years of conducting boba reviews, I have built up a decent ability to predict if the boba will be good or not. I will always get a drink so I'm not merely judging a book by its cover, but it's rare that I'm surprised. The Alley in…
Earlier this year, an anonymous Montrealer declared Machi Machi to be "an elite Boba shop for YUL". I too am interested in having good boba, so I hopped on the plane to Montreal with my girlfriend, Kajol, so we could get Machi Machi. We met up with my friend Arlo…
I was recently walking down the street earlier this week and noticed that the location that used to be home to Möge Tea (reviewed in Jan. 2025, 6/10) had a new sign up: Arteassan. As you may have read on the news, there is currently a blizzard hitting New York…
It's been a while since my last boba review, but sometimes you visit a new place that just inspires you to write about it. ChaHalo recently opened in Long Island City, right in between the Queens Plaza station (E, F, R) and Court Square (7, E, F, G, R) so…
Surreal Creamery is not your typical boba shop; on first glance it looks like an ice cream shop. But at least from my point of view, it's enough of a boba shop for Boba Quest 2025 🧋 — a significant amount of their menu is boba and they even have…
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…
As I wrote about last week, one of my favorite boba shops, Shiny Tea, is closing soon (now extended to May 17th). Knowing that time was running out to fill up my privacy-preserving stamp card, I brought two friends with me to review it: Emmie and Wen. We headed over…
I have sad news to share: Shiny Tea on the Upper West Side (UWS) is closing at the end of this month on May 17th. When I used to live on the UWS, it was my go-to boba shop, and I was one of their regulars. Within about 2-3 months…
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…
Flushing is one of my favorite neighborhoods in Queens because of how diverse and lively it is. Originally founded by the Dutch in the 1600s, today it's an incredible melting pot, primarily populated by Asian immigrants. My coworker David Huerta originally recommended Xing Fu Tang to me at least two…
How far are you willing to go for good boba? My rule of thumb is generally that if it's accessible via public transit, I'll make the trek. Yesterday I took Amtrak down to Philadelphia, and a combination of the SEPTA subway and trolleys to get boba at Tea-Do, in the…
tl;dr: I've set up a new website for Boba Quest 2025 🧋: https://legoktm.com/bobaquest/. Now that I have two months of reviews under my belt, I wanted to create a proper website to make it easy to discover them. Taking inspiration from Everything is Everything, I wanted a similar layout with…
It's the beginning of a new month, so it's a good opportunity to visit a genuinely new boba shop. This week we visited Bobavise in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, which just opened in February. At 893 Nostrand Ave., it's easily reachable via the 2, 3, and 5 trains. The location is…
I'm on vacation this week in San José, California, so I'm taking a break from Boba Quest — just kidding, of course I wanted to review another boba shop. Back in October 2019 I was the executive editor of the Spartan Daily, San José State's student newspaper, when we published…
I want to start by shouting out PixDeVl, who after reading last week's review, visited Débutea and took much better photos than me. This week's review is a bit different as it, unfortunately, is the first boba shop I didn't reach by public transit. We visited Boba Baar in Garden…
