Located on Regent Street, this new store will offer customers a whopping 63 varieties of tea, with a choice of eight different toppings. The bubble tea phenomenon emerged in the 1980s, when Taiwanese street food traders would come up with ever-more colourful and elaborate tea-based concoctions in order to attract customers. Served ice cold or piping hot, this rejuvenating drink consists of fruit teas and milk teas served with chewy tapioca balls.
At Chatime you can also pick up slushy-style drinks made with ice and syrup for a refreshing treat, as well as smoothies, mousses and coffees. Milk teas include Oolong, jasmine, banana, hazelnut and chocolate, or mix it up with tempting-sounding combos like Lychee Black Tea with Coconut Jelly and Peach Green Tea with Pearl – or the intriguing Roasted Milk Tea with Grass Jelly.
The menus change regularly so there’s always something new to discover, and you can sample different combinations before you buy to find your favourite.
“We are all very excited about welcoming in the people of Cambridge to try our delicious selection of bubble teas,” says Peter Wong, founder of Chatime UK. “We’re thrilled to have secured a site in the heart of this beautiful, historic town and we look forward to further UK expansion later this year.”
