a couple of years following that time... kiosks serving bubble tea in plastic cups started sprouting everywhere! selling bubble tea for $2 per cup and completely over threw those nice quaint bubble tea houses... then that industry got too crowded and the kiosks started disappearing again...
fast forward to today... only a few dominant bubble tea companies remain: sweet talk and happy cup just a name a couple...
and now... people are starting to rave about this particular bubble tea shop - koi @ toa payoh central
the store front had a long queue of people waiting for their drinks. i took a peek at their preparation area and was surprised! remember those metal cups? instead of manually shaking it, the shop had this machine that shakes the cups (of cos, someone had to mix the drink and put it on the machine) and following that process, the usual, someone puts it into another machine and the plastic cup gets sealed.
i tried the bubble milk tea and the bf had the swiss chocolate milk shake. what i like about it most is that you can choose your level of sweetness! unlike most other bubble tea kiosks (where the bubble milk tea is usually pre-prepared and all the person does is to fill the cup with bubbles, tea and ice and seal it), the bubble milk tea from koi is individually prepared, "shaked" in the machine and sealed... and the taste? much better than the usual of cos. the draw backs? pricely. each cup costs an average of $4 for a medium sized drink, double the price of a drink from sweet talk.
will i go back again? yes, but only for the bubble milk tea... the chocolate milk shake was wayyy to rich and after finishing it, you feel like you're gonna "pu zhua" the next day :P
oh, did i mention that the pearls were super chewy? my jaws ached after finishing the cup!
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