Tea Time

First time at Tea Time today—we ordered one Signature Milk Tea and one Black Sugar Milk Tea. The tapioca pearls themselves are okay. They taste like the 5 minute pearls they sell near the front of the store, but maybe they’re not. The flavor of the honey pearls in the Signature milk tea is nice. The overall texture of these bubbles is not ideal—they lack a certain light, bouncy consistency that great bubbles have. The Black Sugar Milk Tea has a nice taste. The Signature Milk Tea has a bitter aftertaste, as if the tea had been over steeped. I ordered it less sweet, so that could be contributing to the overall taste, but adding more sugar only somewhat masks over steeped (and thus bitter) tea (speaking from experience lol).nnThe store is really cute and fun and has some authentic snacks you’d find in Asia.

Staff are very friendly. Tea was great, we ordered one oolong tea with honey pearls and one earl grey milk tea with honey pearls.nThis is one of my brother and I’s favorite boba places in Ames and we would suggest it highly. Can’t wait for the dining room to return!

Super nice people, they're even helpful with picking a drink if you don't know what to get.

I went here with my friend while birthday shopping for our boyfriends. We stopped in to get a drink and I was absolutely overwhelmed by the menu and had no idea what to get or where to start. The ladies who worked there were so super kind! They walked me through it and one recommended me one of her favorite fruit teas. It made the ordering process so much easier for me. I got an oolong based fruit tea with pineapple and rose and honey pearls. It was AMAZING! I hadn't had something so refreshing in forever. My friend got a Thai tea which is one of our favorite drinks and the version they serve there is wonderful. We are definitely going to go back. Friendly staff and amazing service. ud83dudc96ud83dudc96ud83dudc96 It made our day.

I love the atmosphere here, and I cannot wait for them to open dine in again. It's the perfect place to study. One of my favorite places in Ames, but the quality of the drink will depend on the worker. I come here very often and it's disappointing when the drink isn't proportioned correctly, especially when you know what it's supposed to taste like.