An unusual place for milk tea

Honestly, I never expected to find a milk tea in a place like Chinatown, well, for chinatown here in The Philippines. Well, I know milk tea was founded and populiarized in asian countries, mostly chinese-related countries including Taiwan and Hong Kong but I was really surprised to see a milk tea establishment in a place like this. What's pretty good with it is that it could rival those milk tea establishments found in capital cities.

So here I go, Mr. Milk Tea reigning from 11/88 Mall in Divisoria.

Pardon the not-so-beautiful angle choice for the photo.

So, the milk tea shop was found in the food court of a chinatown wholesale/bargain mall. I had a pretty weird experience while ordering since the people serving and taking orders were chinese and do not understand the native language as well as english pretty well  (but luckily, they understood basic english, good enough to understand my order).

It was pretty purplish/bluish in actual view. Yes, it's blueberry.

There were new names I've seen in the menu like "duoduo" as well as "ximilu tea" which I tried avoiding, not that I don't want to try it, but rather to be safe and enjoy my milk tea experience that day (wasn't very adventurous/brave that day). I ordered a large blueberry milk tea, and it was just P50 (yes, fifty pesos). It's price, rivaled with other milk tea prices, is very cheap for the largest size (their largest size is as big as most milk tea shops would have). Moreover, the serving of the tapioca pearls were very generous although the tapioca pearls aren't as really tasty as other milk tea shops would have, it's still ok.

Mr. Milk Tea - Blueberry Milk Tea Judgment

- Blueberry goodness = 8 pts.

- Wallet-friendliness = 5 pts.

- Tapioca = 2 pts.
Professional Judgment = The milk tea experience itself was something, even better when the blueberry yummy'ness rushed into my taste buds. The price really made my purse smile since it was really cheap, not the quality, but the price. Downside was the tapioca; it's taste was, not so-so, but could be a lot better and the tapioca was way too many (well, maybe for me, but really, there were many).

Well, that's it for now... If you want me to feature a specific milk tea shop or feature a drink (may it be of any shop), you could do tell me if you want. Hope you guys/gals had some fun reading this.

CHEERIO!

Credits to:

11/88 Mall

Mr. Milk Tea (openrice.com entry) http://ph.openrice.com/manila/restaurant/sr2.htm?shopid=22410