IF YOU think a cup of that cold, sweet milk tea with black pearls is the best thing that has ever happened to food trends in the last millennium, then here’s another tip for you: You can actually switch things up, enjoying milk tea with spoons instead of straws! How you may ask?
With this milk tea craze all over the world, milk tea brands are re-imagining this favorite drink by transforming it into creamy and smooth ice cream, making one’s milk tea obsession more intense.
Drooling? Let’s find out where in Metro Cebu you can get your sweet fix.
Koala Tea
Address: SSY Business Center, Salinas Drive, Lahug, Cebu City
This café is arguably the first one to introduce milk tea soft serve ice cream in Cebu. Its version uses black tea as base, and then topped with boba pearls or crushed Oreo cookies. This offering is characterized by a distinct sweetness and texture. You can also try its soft serve milk tea with cream cheese on top, if you want to taste something new.
Bubble Tea Station
Address: Bubble Tea Station, Streetscape, Banilad, Cebu City
Awarded for Best Milk Tea by SunStar Best of Cebu in 2018, Bubble Tea Station transformed its popular bubble tea drinks into soft serve ice cream in two milk tea-based flavors: Wintemelon and Matcha. You have the option top these off with its signature pearls, coffee jelly or Oreo cookie crumbs, all for only P90. However, as of now, the homegrown brand only serves this new offering in its Streetscape branch.
Swirl Dessert Corner
Address: Sugbo Mercado, Garden Bloc, Cebu IT Park
One of the biggest milk tea trends for this year is definitely the brown sugar milk tea, and this sweet little dessert corner in Sugbo Mercado, Garden Bloc, did not join the bandwagon by offering its own brown sugar series.
Instead, it transformed its take on the brown sugar milk tea drink into a dairy-rich, creamy and light soft serve ice cream everybody loves.