I am a Boba Tea Lover, Are you?

If you are, please chime in! If I missed any of your favorite local Tampa boba places, hit me up in the comments!

I’m not so good at breaking away from my tried and true favorite have really tried to leave my boba tea comfort zone and give my taste buds new flavors explore!

At Kung Fu Tea / Riverview- I tried the piña colada slush with mango popping bubbles and was an instant fan! Back in October I won one of their Instagram contest so I decided to try another new tea for Free Tea Tuesday!! The Sunshine Pineapple Tea with exploding boba!!! I am happy to say that all of the new teas were great choices but I often times still order my favorite the black milk tea with regular tapioca bubbles.

Sunshine Pineapple Tea with exploding boba.

My black milk boba tea and my friends green matcha slush.

Black milk boba tea with plain tapioca bubbles.

Another boba stop with my foodie buddy was Quickly Boba/ Brandon. This one isn’t on my favorites, mostly because they have an up charge now to order online. Oddly, this “convenience fee” to me seems a little unfair since the only option is to order online since Quickly Boba has closed up the inside of their shop other than to pick up your drink order. This last visit there, I ordered the coconut milk slush w/ boba and my friend had her macha tea milk slush. A plus for this location is that it’s the closest to my house for boba tea. And then a desperate pinch I’ll pay the convenience fee!

My coconut milk slush w/ boba and my friends macha tea milk slush

The newest UCF Boba place is Möge Tee…. oddly enough it’s in the plaza right behind Boba Cup. Hopefully there’s enough business in the area to warrant two close by Boba spots. In my opinion Möge Tee seems to be more authentic than the other Americanized versions I have enjoyed in the past. My son and his girlfriend, both of whom are always game to join me on a Boba tea date, agreeed with my take on Möge Tee. They were running some great grand opening week specials and I purchased a gift card, that I still have some money on, so I’ll be heading back there sooner than later!

I ordered the fresh pineapple tea with white boba, my oldest ordered the Oreo milk tea and his girlfriend got the fresh mango tea with white bubbles and I got an earl grey bubble milk tea for the next day. What sets Möge Tee apart from your average Boba tea shop is the cheese foam and the fresh fruit that they load in their fruit teas. The three of us weren’t brave enough to try that cheese foam this go around but I might give it a whirl next visit!

My oldest son John, and fellow boba tea love.

I ordered the fresh pineapple tea with white boba, my oldest ordered the Oreo milk tea and his girlfriend got the fresh mango tea with white bubbles and I got an earl grey bubble milk tea for the next day.

On New Year’s day (2021) we started out, and when I say “we”, I mean my son and his girlfriend, my standing dates for boba tea, strolling through International Mall and Bay Street. My middle son, Zach, was with us but he doesn’t enjoy boba tea, so he sat out on this treat. Discovering a Japanese Ramen restaurant that offered boba tea was just the icing on the proverbial cake for us three Boba tea lovers!

Black Milk Boba tea for me, Grapefruit tea for my son, John, and Mango tea for my sons girlfriend, Taylor.

Black Milk Boba Tea with tapioca bubbles.

Last stop on my Tampa area Boba tour for today is Green Island, off of Adamo Drive and Falkenberg Road. This location would probably be the second closest to me. Right now, with Covid precautions, they do not allowed inside seating but you can order at the window or call ahead. My son and I order through the window and it was quicker than expected. That’s always a plus. Where there’s a plus, there’s often a minus and with Green Island it was their popping bubbles. They all popped before they even got up the straw. My son and I were joking about it but truthfully we concluded the straws were too small for the bubbles to travel up and were crushed on contact. Instead of arriving to your mouth in it’s whole state, all we got were boba skins. Meh.