boba & life review
updated june 2023
life review
yo! welcome back to my blog.
the past couple months have been exciting but like ughhh, i don't have time to do anything :<
as we turn into the holidays (and competition season 😩), i can't help but be filled with joy >:D. the christmas lights, the holiday songs, it just makes me feel so festive . this summer was honestly disappointing, and i slept WAY too much, so now im in this ultra grind to attempt to balance USACO, math, and school work.
now that that debby downer is out of the way, let's get on to something a lot more exciting...
a boba review!
unfortunately, i've only been taking of the unique boba drinks since like september, so those are the only ones you're gonna get. i'll try to update this as much as possible ;)
s/o to zoya & peter for helping me read over this next ver.!
1 ~ Sunright Tea Studio
  9/10
(on the cryan-o-meter)
cryan's review:
solid drinks with very chewy boba. it's also in a nice strip mall with great scenery
and good weather. drinking boba here and walking around is such a mood.
2 ~ Societea
  6/10
(on the cryan-o-meter)
cryan's review:
i love the environment, but the drinks just
aren't that good :<
3 ~ Grapeholic
  8.5/10
(on the cryan-o-meter)
cryan's review:
very good quality drinks and resturant looks very nice. they have really good fruit
drinks, but their "boba" just isn't that good. also the price is kinda...
4 ~ 85° Bakery
  7.5/10
(on the zoya-o-meter)
  8/10
(on the cryan-o-meter)
zoya's review:
85° always had sweet drinks (i usually got mango slush w/ boba) and the boba
were always very chewy, and it paired nice with their assortment of sweet and savory
baked goods. not extraordinary but their normal size was veeery big.
cryan's review:
a more unusual entry on the list as it's not a
boba place, but they have rly good boba deals and the drinks are mostly good.
however, ive gotten dizzy from drinking too much of them at once, so drink
responsibly! (im actually drinking one rn)
5 ~ Happy Lemon
  7/10
(on the cryan-o-meter)
cryan's review:
good fruit drinks, but i feel like there isn't that much variety. they're also
known for cheese foam, but i don't really like that soooo
6 ~ Truedan
  9/10
(on the cryan-o-meter)
cryan's review:
man this brings back memories. i drank here almost every day during janurary-february.
ive tried almost every drink here! they have great brown sugar boba, but there
isn't any variety at all. everything is either a regular tea or a milk drink and
their one "fruity" drink was almost always out of stock (in my experience).
7 ~ Orobae
  8/10
(on the cryan-o-meter)
cryan's review:
my general rule of thumb for these reviews is that i have to have gone to them at least 4
times (and have a good variety of pictures), but this place was rly memorable.
i've only been here once (when i went to irvine), but the tea is rly good and it was so "tea-y" that i was hyper for the next 5 hours. probably best milk tea i had, but it was kinda hard to finish.
s/o to melody for recommending other boba places in irvine which i got to try (i lwk forgot what they tasted like tho)!
8 ~ Tiger Sugar
  9/10
(on the zoya-o-meter)
  8/10
(on the cryan-o-meter)
zoya's review:
i personally love brown sugar milk teas and it’s their specialty, plus the presentation is always nice (almost don’t want to shake it ðŸ˜)
cryan's review:
the only thing i remember about this place was that the drink was very sweet. other than that,
i thought the boba was pretty good and the drink looked nice.