A chance encounter with R&B tea in Toa Payoh, and I'm addicted, addicted to Brown Sugar Boba Milk.
Because Google is an all-seeing omnipresent being, my ads directed me to LiHO's newly released Brown Sugar Boba Milk. Seems like LiHO is hopping onto this bandwagon, and I absolutely don't mind if it means I get my favourite drink at more accessible locations. Apparently, this was launched at the Michelin Guide Street Food Festival 2018, and is NOT and actual Michelin recommendation. This was reported by several bloggers and food websites to be "well-received" and had "resounding success".
Well, we'll see.
It sucked. Ah, sorry for the suspense, or lack of it, since my TL;DR made it quite clear. This drink sucks.
LiHO uses Farmhouse UHT milk which lacks flavour. The brown sugar flavour is not prominent and barely distinguishable. The pearls are bland, tasteless, and very very very very chewy.
I actually thought they had put normal pearls in and messaged the LiHO facebook page to ask for clarification. But it seems those pearls were indeed supposed to be brown sugar pearls, so that sucks because those pearls had no brown sugar flavour at all.
Here are two possibilities: 1) The internet lies. 2) LiHO's quality is inconsistent.
(Both are probably true.)
On a slightly related but kind of unrelated note, this cup design obscures the aesthetics of this drink. And the aesthetics of this drink has been a crucial attraction that has made it become so popular in Taiwan.
The pricing is comparable to R&B Tea, so I say just get it at R&B Tea instead.
The "Milk Party" version of this drink by LiHO is the brown sugar boba milk "topped with cheese, Oreo crunch, peanut and caramelised biscuits".
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