Agree that liho's standard has gone down tremendously. In terms of consistency, koi is still the best. Chicha's tea is fragrant but it's the most expensive chain among all. Also fully agree with Jon that playmade's chrysanthemum milk tea is DA BOMB! I love playmade's homemade pearls - especially the grape one! 🍇
This episode showcased your teams passion on bubbletea! Your description and experiences on these bubble tea were really a joy to watch esp for a fellow bubble tea lover! Pls do a part 2 on the smaller brands like Wobbee, Hollin, R&B etc!
Playmade doesn't have the best milk tea, but the best pearls out of all the brands. Their fruit pearls (especially) Grape pearl is the best imo. When eat the pearl, doesn't feel as "cancerous" compared to standard black tapioca or golden pearls Hollins also have different flavored pearls but imo not as good as Playmade pearls
haven’t watched the video yet but the Chrysanthemum Milk Tea from Playmade is my absolute fave, will stand by it and always buy it! 25% is still quite sweet especially with my go-to Pink Cactus pearls though!
DO A PART 2 PLEASE!!! and another trying the various bbt brands around~ this was so fun to watch and i loved hearing all the opinions you guys had abt the bbt!! (p.s. playmade is superior
Playmade chrysanthemum milk tea 0% sugar with konjac pearl is the win for me - the burnt smell is the uniqueness. The same drink for me for every visit!
I worked at koi before and they actually use powdered milk LOL but somehow it still tastes really good😭😭agree with Alison on koi’s green milk tea my favourite drink🥺
It's my first time seeing Jon talking about something so passionately and for so long. Please also consider doing a review of coffee like huggs, luckin coffee, starbucks etc.
current favourites are definitely playmade and chicha! playmade grape yakult green tea with grape pearls is the goat. honourable mention goes to chagee and hollin, and there was a period i was quite fond of the alley too
DailyKetchup team, you all should try R&B Tea (Parkway Parade Branch). I always like the 0% sugar Mighty Luffy Fruit Tea with less yuzu. It comes with watermelons to eat and other fruits inside. Refreshing. Love the tea taste of Dao Hong Pao Latte with cream with some crunchy bits on top from “Little Red Dot Tea” at Kinex. But I think this brand already closed down. Recently, tried the new drink, Orh Nee Rice Milk Tea at Koi The (100AM). The taro gao gao. Shiok. 😄 Will one day need to try the ovaltine! Need to have second round rankings, you all need to visit other underrated bubble tea shops. 😂
Milk Tea my top choice is The Alley. Chi cha, Playmade, Koi then the others. Gong Cha when first started is more natural than artificial. Have my favourite Longang red date tea which they removed. Liho now is very artifical.
It really depends what you enjoy in a bubble tea. Chicha has the best tea without a doubt. Osmanthus oolong mango(not milk) 0 sugar, the most fragrant tea. If you like pearls, go playmade. The best way to judge a bubble tea is by its queue 😂. Nobody returns to a bbt shop on hype.
So true, chicha should be at S tier itself for true bubble tea because I actually can taste the tea in it. All other ones they mentioned are just milk water
Liho keep changing their menu. My friends and I all stop going to Liho because our favourite drinks were removed from the menu one by one over the years.
HeyTea is the best now. But they took away the superb taro tea that comes with thick warm taro paste. Bring it back! Lino old dahong pao was a highlight they also removed it! Remember Agen tea?they were real good too
Chi cha San Chen is pronounce as Chi Cha San "Qian" in Chinese. They are one of the best in SG for the fragrant of the Tea, but for Bubble Milk Tea wise I would not say is the best as the Tea is stronger and in combination, feels more like Tea milk than Milk tea.
Koi is a taiwan brand by 50岚 in Taiwan. Gongcha used to be a Taiwan brand until it was bought over a Korean company. That leads to the change in franchise in Singapore as the franchise rate went up. LiHo almost appear overnight and took over almost all the Gongcha. Gongcha used to be in capital letter until it is now rebranded by gongcha (all in small letters). The current gongcha is now run by Mr Bean.
Y’all need to blind taste test to verify if this is an accurate ranking My personal FAV Hollin (RSM series) , Chicha (国王奶茶), The Alley (No.9 milk tea), R&B, 我爱台妹. Side note, Koi’s new low fat series kicks ass !!!
I’m so glad I met some mates here that appreciate Playmade. Another bubble tea that is worth a try is 霸王茶姬. Not cheap but the tea is so smooth and fragrant. I usually just have my bubble tea with toppings but BWCJ tea is enough without any toppings. Sidenote: Dan’s dad joke game is getting strong
Chi cha used to be very good when they first arrived in SG but the standard dropped drastically recently; no tea taste, cold ice drink not cold, a bit warm. Cck n woodlands mrt outlet sucks.
Tried today after john paul talk so much! Damn It’s so nice bro!!! The chrysanthemum milk tea is fking good! The aroma is really there! Cant wait to test other flavour!
You guys need to do a Part 2 WITHOUT leaving out other big bbt chains like R&B, HeyTea and ChaGee. Please go try them and rate them altogether again. I recommend the creme brûlée brown sugar milk tea from R&B, green tea with cheese cap from HeyTea and any of the milk teas from ChaGee! Go try
It’s not just Jurong West branch. Chi Cha in general is good! Their tea is really good quality and I also order 0% sugar all the time. I think Alison’s taste got problem lol 100% sugar still taste like water?! Or maybe like they say Tampines outlet got problem
@@surelynodoubt probably the outlet… haha. But yes Chicha has always been good, but i say JW cos yknow some people just dont think so. Also i think most people’s tastebuds got problem when they consume too much sugar it actually dulls their tastebuds (actually had scientific studies behind it) Reminded me of a 9gag skit about bbt and one of them said if you order bubble tea with 0% sugar it tastes like water, might as well dont order.
@@surelynodoubtlol I always ordered 0% and the pearl sweetness is enough to make the milk tea taste good. If she ordered 100% and still can't taste anything, she better go get her tastebud check already
My go to; Koi - Hazelnut Milk Tea, No topping, 0% PlayMate - Rice Milk Tea, Sesame Pearl, 50% LiHo - Cheezo Milk Tea (Some how they removed from menu liao......) / Mango Delight
my fav is chagee 👌👌👌👌👌 fav of ALL TIME!! Used to love gongcha long time back but agreed that standards had dropped. playmade was one of the my fav too xD
my must-go-to: playmade earl grey milk tea + black sesame pearl 0%. So sad now they don’t have earl grey Liao. The aroma from earl grey is woah, just like how Jon describes😂
The LIHO claim is so real I got so upset after winter melon milk tea disappeared (I always got it even tho it was excessively sweet and I cldnt select sugar % cuz it was js that good) + cheezho disappearing too now I can’t even drink LIHO anym cuz it’s so bad now
This year's pipagao campaign was way too short. KOI no longer selling pipagao drinks by mid-April... And I think they also cut down on the amt of pipagao in each drink. The drinks didn't hv that cool minty aftertaste anymore. Huge disappointment. 😭
Use to love chicha a lot but i find their standard had drop ..koi still better got honey green tea and hazelnut milk tea. I prefer their OGs then the seasonal ones.
i asked Liho why they changed their menu, they said it was because of the Nutrigrade rating :/ the timing was almost at the same time too when this was rolled out
I just watched this video and i'm not sure if this is updated or not updated but there's milk da hong pao tea at my outlet eh for liho but i live at the west side. Is that not the same as the milk tea? Also there's normal koi outlets not just the koi the outlets. Got two variations. My area got both of them ahah. Anyways i think the cloud drink got flower bits inside or whatever which is why smell perfumey.
does anyone remember the OG bubble tea store in clarke quay wayyy back in early 2000s? it was a little sit-down cafe which served drinks with whimsical names in glasses, along with taiwanese snacks like 鹽酥雞etc.... used to be SUCH a treat for me when we went there!
I am with Alison toooooo on Chi Cha! I have tried Chi Cha at least 4-5 times, across different outlets but it just taste diluted, the tea taste is sooooo faint and it cost so much more than other brands..
I feel like Liho standard is very outlet dependant, some outlet tasted good. Nex outlet taste horrible. the real underrated gem for me is At tea, genmaicha or chrysanthemum
I think the Gongcha story is all wrong. Someone bought Gongcha from the OG owner and decided to rebrand to Liho and changed up the whole menu. Thats why the whole brand consistency went down. The OG owners were so upset and only a few years later the OG owner was able to reopen Gongcha again?
8:29 Don't worry Daniel nobody acknowledged but i laughed at your joke 😂😂
Thanks Jon for doing chrysanthemum milk tea at Playmade justice with his descriptions hahaha I LOVE IT TOO
Sorry but I can’t trust Allison after her proclamation of LiHo being her favourite bbt brand…
Agree that liho's standard has gone down tremendously. In terms of consistency, koi is still the best. Chicha's tea is fragrant but it's the most expensive chain among all. Also fully agree with Jon that playmade's chrysanthemum milk tea is DA BOMB! I love playmade's homemade pearls - especially the grape one! 🍇
R&B and Sharetea and Each a cup is underrated. They have gems.
Sharetea definitely deserves more love
Each A Cup with their 1000CC drink
This episode showcased your teams passion on bubbletea! Your description and experiences on these bubble tea were really a joy to watch esp for a fellow bubble tea lover! Pls do a part 2 on the smaller brands like Wobbee, Hollin, R&B etc!
Chrysanthemum milk tea with pink cactus pearl is bomb
YESS LITERALLY THE ONLY DRINK I HAVE TO GET EVERY TIME I FLY BACK FROM OVERSEASSS
Playmade doesn't have the best milk tea, but the best pearls out of all the brands. Their fruit pearls (especially) Grape pearl is the best imo.
When eat the pearl, doesn't feel as "cancerous" compared to standard black tapioca or golden pearls
Hollins also have different flavored pearls but imo not as good as Playmade pearls
Chicha is still the best for me.
Playmade milk tea tastes like milk water, I don’t see the hype around
Not for me, i love the aroma of the tea with the taste of the milk, best part is the prices is definitely worth it!
@TemplarLove what chicha drink do you order most?
haven’t watched the video yet but the Chrysanthemum Milk Tea from Playmade is my absolute fave, will stand by it and always buy it! 25% is still quite sweet especially with my go-to Pink Cactus pearls though!
CHI CHA IS GOATED....
DO A PART 2 PLEASE!!! and another trying the various bbt brands around~ this was so fun to watch and i loved hearing all the opinions you guys had abt the bbt!! (p.s. playmade is superior
Green milk tea from koi was my OG flavour, but recently peach/mango four seasons milk tea hits the spot
Playmade chrysanthemum milk tea 0% sugar with konjac pearl is the win for me - the burnt smell is the uniqueness. The same drink for me for every visit!
I worked at koi before and they actually use powdered milk LOL but somehow it still tastes really good😭😭agree with Alison on koi’s green milk tea my favourite drink🥺
It's my first time seeing Jon talking about something so passionately and for so long. Please also consider doing a review of coffee like huggs, luckin coffee, starbucks etc.
I can recommend Koi Thé and Yan Xi Tang because they have NO ICE option! Cold and no ice, more juice for you!
THEY REMOVED SCHOLAR DA HONG PAO MILK TEA!!!!! i stopped drinking liho afterwards.
Golden Ovaltine is actually from Gongcha! Not KOI haha. I was also a fan of it!
Chicha hot bubble milk tea 0% sugar!!! so far the best hot bbt i’ve had, life changing if you want to have a hot drink
current favourites are definitely playmade and chicha! playmade grape yakult green tea with grape pearls is the goat. honourable mention goes to chagee and hollin, and there was a period i was quite fond of the alley too
Where the HDB downstair oldskool bubble tea that use powder make one
Blue coral best
Thats itea
DailyKetchup team, you all should try R&B Tea (Parkway Parade Branch). I always like the 0% sugar Mighty Luffy Fruit Tea with less yuzu. It comes with watermelons to eat and other fruits inside. Refreshing.
Love the tea taste of Dao Hong Pao Latte with cream with some crunchy bits on top from “Little Red Dot Tea” at Kinex. But I think this brand already closed down.
Recently, tried the new drink, Orh Nee Rice Milk Tea at Koi The (100AM). The taro gao gao. Shiok. 😄 Will one day need to try the ovaltine!
Need to have second round rankings, you all need to visit other underrated bubble tea shops. 😂
Back at comment section to see bbl tea recs and omg yes, R&B is imo underrated. I rly like their drinks n pearls n it's not overly pricey
No no no , the OG is sweet talk!!!! ( like blue coral ice blend and mini pearl which cost 80cent)
The passion for Bubble Tea from you guys! ROFL
Milk Tea my top choice is The Alley.
Chi cha, Playmade, Koi then the others.
Gong Cha when first started is more natural than artificial. Have my favourite Longang red date tea which they removed.
Liho now is very artifical.
include hollins in the next part please!!!
AtTea is top notch... beats everything else I ever tried. Tea itself + toppings are mind blowing yummiest
Useless fun fact : Turn the Liho logo upside down to see it differently...
It really depends what you enjoy in a bubble tea. Chicha has the best tea without a doubt. Osmanthus oolong mango(not milk) 0 sugar, the most fragrant tea. If you like pearls, go playmade. The best way to judge a bubble tea is by its queue 😂. Nobody returns to a bbt shop on hype.
So true, chicha should be at S tier itself for true bubble tea because I actually can taste the tea in it. All other ones they mentioned are just milk water
pls do a part 2 aft yall tried the bbts!!
LOVEEEE the painting of the episode segment, great community effort :) more reasons to support yall!
List your favourite orders!
CHICHA:
- Osmanthus Oolong Tea 50%
- Bubble Milk Tea 0%
- Osmanthus Tea with Honey 50%
PLAYMADE:
- Grape Yakult Green Tea 0% with Grape Pearls
- Osmanthus Oolong Tea 30% with Osmanthus Jelly
- Chrysanthemum Milk Tea 0% with Chrysanthemum Pearl
KOI:
- Yakult Green Tea 30%
R&B TEA:
- Mighty Luffy 30%
- Da Hong Pao w Tea Cream 30%
osmanthus... is a flower... no? its not really a tea leaf... right?
35:26 THANK YOU ALISON FOR MENTIONING CUPWALKER
Since no one commented this..
Try The Alley Royal No.9 Milk Tea!
Wheres Fruce?? Fruce is delicious esp their coconut mocha. Their mochi pearls are wow wow. Also the ume plum 👍👍👍
Gongcha’s brown sugar drink is the best
Omg I love Gongcha's brown sugar earl grey milk tea!! It's my guilty pleasure 🫠🫠🫠
Liho keep changing their menu. My friends and I all stop going to Liho because our favourite drinks were removed from the menu one by one over the years.
HeyTea is the best now. But they took away the superb taro tea that comes with thick warm taro paste. Bring it back! Lino old dahong pao was a highlight they also removed it! Remember Agen tea?they were real good too
Chi cha San Chen is pronounce as Chi Cha San "Qian" in Chinese. They are one of the best in SG for the fragrant of the Tea, but for Bubble Milk Tea wise I would not say is the best as the Tea is stronger and in combination, feels more like Tea milk than Milk tea.
Koi is a taiwan brand by 50岚 in Taiwan.
Gongcha used to be a Taiwan brand until it was bought over a Korean company. That leads to the change in franchise in Singapore as the franchise rate went up. LiHo almost appear overnight and took over almost all the Gongcha. Gongcha used to be in capital letter until it is now rebranded by gongcha (all in small letters). The current gongcha is now run by Mr Bean.
Koi was from Taiwan, Gongcha somehow... bought over from Korea (which is why somehow Gongcha is still quite prominent in Seoul itself).
Y’all need to blind taste test to verify if this is an accurate ranking
My personal FAV Hollin (RSM series) , Chicha (国王奶茶), The Alley (No.9 milk tea), R&B, 我爱台妹.
Side note, Koi’s new low fat series kicks ass !!!
koi green milk tea is the og
👑👑👑
Should have a part 2 and add in hollin & iTea
I can't with playmate. 0% with pearl is still way toooooo sweet.
Gong Cha is the best to me (it is milky and creamy to me), tied with Chi Cha, then Li Ho, I don't like Koi and I sincerely gave it many chances
Koi milk tea is milk water. Should be F tier if only rate for bbt itself
Pls try Fruce n Bober Tea
KOI Thé .... Thé is pronounced "Tay" in French.
I’m so glad I met some mates here that appreciate Playmade.
Another bubble tea that is worth a try is 霸王茶姬. Not cheap but the tea is so smooth and fragrant. I usually just have my bubble tea with toppings but BWCJ tea is enough without any toppings.
Sidenote: Dan’s dad joke game is getting strong
Chi cha used to be very good when they first arrived in SG but the standard dropped drastically recently; no tea taste, cold ice drink not cold, a bit warm. Cck n woodlands mrt outlet sucks.
Please do bubble tea review of other brands too, there are other hidden brands which are better than the ones you chose
Tried today after john paul talk so much! Damn It’s so nice bro!!! The chrysanthemum milk tea is fking good! The aroma is really there! Cant wait to test other flavour!
Wushiland NEEDS to be in the list
You guys need to do a Part 2 WITHOUT leaving out other big bbt chains like R&B, HeyTea and ChaGee. Please go try them and rate them altogether again.
I recommend the creme brûlée brown sugar milk tea from R&B, green tea with cheese cap from HeyTea and any of the milk teas from ChaGee! Go try
playmade is goddamn superior
Osmanthus Oolong 0% sugar from Chicha jurong west branches ❤❤❤ the taste of tea is actually there and it’s deliciousssss.
It’s not just Jurong West branch. Chi Cha in general is good! Their tea is really good quality and I also order 0% sugar all the time.
I think Alison’s taste got problem lol 100% sugar still taste like water?! Or maybe like they say Tampines outlet got problem
@@surelynodoubt probably the outlet… haha. But yes Chicha has always been good, but i say JW cos yknow some people just dont think so. Also i think most people’s tastebuds got problem when they consume too much sugar it actually dulls their tastebuds (actually had scientific studies behind it)
Reminded me of a 9gag skit about bbt and one of them said if you order bubble tea with 0% sugar it tastes like water, might as well dont order.
@@surelynodoubtlol I always ordered 0% and the pearl sweetness is enough to make the milk tea taste good. If she ordered 100% and still can't taste anything, she better go get her tastebud check already
KOI black tea with ice cream FTW
My go to;
Koi - Hazelnut Milk Tea, No topping, 0%
PlayMate - Rice Milk Tea, Sesame Pearl, 50%
LiHo - Cheezo Milk Tea (Some how they removed from menu liao......) / Mango Delight
For ChiCha, Alison can try Osmanthus Oolong with Mango.. it taste good even without 100% sugar
my fav is chagee 👌👌👌👌👌 fav of ALL TIME!! Used to love gongcha long time back but agreed that standards had dropped. playmade was one of the my fav too xD
I think ChiCha is not bad Osmanthus Oolong is da best! My go to drink
吃茶三千 should be pronounced as Chi Cha San Qian. This word 千 is pronounced as qian not cheng.
my must-go-to: playmade earl grey milk tea + black sesame pearl 0%. So sad now they don’t have earl grey Liao. The aroma from earl grey is woah, just like how Jon describes😂
The LIHO claim is so real I got so upset after winter melon milk tea disappeared (I always got it even tho it was excessively sweet and I cldnt select sugar % cuz it was js that good) + cheezho disappearing too
now I can’t even drink LIHO anym cuz it’s so bad now
In the mid 90s, there was Quickly bubble tea. It had long queues but fizzled out after awhile. And Koi ovaltine is super.
According to Google, Chinese in ancient history, consumed tea leaves as a form of medicine and food, before doing so as a drink.
ChichaSanChien if you see this, I just need you to have a bigger cup!!
playmade chrysanthemum milk tea with pink cactus pearls and woobbee pipagao milk tea 🔛🔝
Playmade grape yakult black tea 25% sugar with grape pearlssssssssssss
Hollin should be mentioned!! Its soooo good 🎉
CHI CHA taro series is the best
Same as Alison, tried Chicha at least 4-5 times all taste like water, its just diluted tea water
How can you guys not include hey tea?!?!!
BOBER HAS THE BEST NORMAL PEARL
Damn QQ and always consistent
liho needs to bring back their calpis peach!!!!!!!!! SUPERIOR
I agree. This was my fave too. But I guess sugar level was high
Koi Pipagao Milk Tea only available once a year in the month of April.
This year's pipagao campaign was way too short. KOI no longer selling pipagao drinks by mid-April... And I think they also cut down on the amt of pipagao in each drink. The drinks didn't hv that cool minty aftertaste anymore. Huge disappointment. 😭
milksha leh mixue leh itea leh sharetea leh
I've been reading "chicha shan qian" all the time haha!
Use to love chicha a lot but i find their standard had drop ..koi still better got honey green tea and hazelnut milk tea. I prefer their OGs then the seasonal ones.
Dongding oolong 0% hot is best!!
Fun fact: bubble tea "bubble" isn't referring to the pearls/topping, but the bubble foam you get after shaking.
26:35 Jon reminded me of trump when he said spot on
Momo tea was one of the earlier ones and I rmbr it being sooo good..
Do heytea and chagee please!!!! 🙏🏻
i asked Liho why they changed their menu, they said it was because of the Nutrigrade rating :/ the timing was almost at the same time too when this was rolled out
I just watched this video and i'm not sure if this is updated or not updated but there's milk da hong pao tea at my outlet eh for liho but i live at the west side. Is that not the same as the milk tea? Also there's normal koi outlets not just the koi the outlets. Got two variations. My area got both of them ahah. Anyways i think the cloud drink got flower bits inside or whatever which is why smell perfumey.
does anyone remember the OG bubble tea store in clarke quay wayyy back in early 2000s? it was a little sit-down cafe which served drinks with whimsical names in glasses, along with taiwanese snacks like 鹽酥雞etc.... used to be SUCH a treat for me when we went there!
Should have ordered a standard drink from each store to help with the ranking.
30:40
not sure when was this recorded, da hong pao was gone but as of 21July2024, da hong pao milk tea is back and its one $2.9. yyaayyy
Do SG have Black Whale? I love the Tea aroma but the bubble so so, but their super soft crystal jelly so refreshing~
I am with Alison toooooo on Chi Cha! I have tried Chi Cha at least 4-5 times, across different outlets but it just taste diluted, the tea taste is sooooo faint and it cost so much more than other brands..
Used to have cup walker at suntec's carrefour. Affordable and nice.
Clearly they have not tried ChaGee in JB yet. It will blow their minds.
Currently watching this with bbt cravings and also sick 😭
I feel like Liho standard is very outlet dependant, some outlet tasted good. Nex outlet taste horrible.
the real underrated gem for me is At tea, genmaicha or chrysanthemum
I thought quickly (快可立) is the oldest brand
It is. The OG but they probably too young to have heard of Quickly
You are right! I had 快可立 in Marina Square in 1997 with my first gf lol
Rate itea please! Peach Green tea with white pearl and Passion fruit tea with aloe vera ❤❤❤
I think the Gongcha story is all wrong. Someone bought Gongcha from the OG owner and decided to rebrand to Liho and changed up the whole menu. Thats why the whole brand consistency went down. The OG owners were so upset and only a few years later the OG owner was able to reopen Gongcha again?