The more I get boba, the more I realize I know nothing about boba. Everyone makes their own iteration of a milk tea, and every menu has a mix of other drinks, both sweet and fruity.
Walk into Yi Fang and you'll notice it smells amazing. Their signature Fruit Tea is full of floating fruit slices, and you'll immediate remark on how pretty their Eastern-themed decor is. Take a sip of their tea...with 50% sugar or less because it is SWEET, and you'll enjoy that fresh-brewed taste, but soon you'll notice how quickly it goes. it's an awful lot of fruit in an awfully small amount of tea, especially if you get a regular size and add toppings. And it's a good tea, so you're always left wanting more.
Same goes for the less-fruit options like the Passion Fruit Green Tea. The tea taste is definitely on the lighter side, especially with less sugar, but it's a lot easier to swallow and you do get more liquid.
Why are they called toppings if they go on the bottoms? I guess "bottoms" would be a much harder sell... That said, there is one distinct bottom-topping I've only seen at Yi Fang that is worth trying. Find an excuse to add some mochi jelly cake. These cubes of mochi-married-egg-pudding are amazing in texture and taste but more difficult to suck into a straw. Get it in a Red Bean Mochi Latte or something similarly milky and you'll like it lot-te, but between that and the non-adjustable level of ice, you do get a lot less drink.
I honestly don't love Yi Fang. I like the refreshing drinks despite the lower volume, and I love the mochi jelly cake, but their drinks tend to look nicer than they taste.
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