Chatime

Drinks are good. I come here often whenever I walk at 8^th Avenue. I am now into the grass jelly milk tea but I ask to get the milk tea with no sugar. Crazy right? *The grass jelly already has sugar* but the drinks with regular sugar is far too sweet. Why I took off one star? The matcha drinks don’t taste like matcha and just take like sugar. It’s super sweet soI do not recommend getting the drinks that have matcha.

This location is small, basically no where to so. So you must get it to go. Staff is no the friendliness, they kinda just want to get you in and out.
Has the taro milk tea, a little watered down on the taro flavor, but decent. Won’t be my first choice of drinks on 8^th ave

I am a huge fun of different types of bubble milk tea. There is way too many bubble tea stores in 8av to say that I would come back to this Chatime. I’ve been here at least 6 times trying out different drinks on their menu and they are all not very outstanding.
All their milk teas taste extremely powdery. I had their jasmine milk tea which is my favorite from most places and it tasted tasteless and I had the same problem with I had their Matcha milk tea (hot) which is a green tea blended into powder but from the water temperature not being hot enough and the staff not mixing it, all I tasted was matcha powder in water. The fruit drinks drinks are okay but it’s just syrup after all.
The store is small and for ordering and go. There isn’t a bathroom. The customer service is okay (better than Vivi and Tbaar in 59^th/​60^th st)

Was going to Ten Ren last Sunday because of the reviews but stopped in here instead without reading Unilocal reviews. After my purchase, I checked in and saw that it had only 3 stars, so my expectations were low.
I ordered my usual cold milk tea with Boba, grass jelly, and pudding. The grass jelly and pudding are extra. There are other additions you can order, like red bean, but i can’t recall them. The boba here is decent! Not too soft and not too hard, with a light sweetness to it.
The best thing is you can customize the sugar content from 0%, 25%, 50%, and 100%. I had it at 50% sweetness and it was perfect!
My kids had the mango smoothie plus boba and strawberry smoothie plus boba and they thought it was good. They also make cold tea concoctions, coffee, and herbal /​green teas, slush varieties.
My only disappointment is when asked if they can make a plain milk with Boba for the kids they said they cannot even though they have the ingredients to. They do make a chocolate milk one, but it would be bad for my kids teeth. Also, my wife thought the milk tea could be stronger.
Chatime is a chain. This one is very small and there is no where to sit. You order then leave. The outside is given up to a local business to sell its items along it’s walls. My favorite boba tea place is Coco tea, but I have no problem coming to any Chatime franchise to get my fix.

I like bubble tea but my experience with Chatime on 8^th Ave was meh. First off, it was overpriced. Then, the cha (tea) was alright but nothing special. The lines were too long. I don’t know whether a lot of customers trying to make an order or the staff was unable to organize.

I like their variety, but after trying many of them, only the brown rice green milk tea tastes good to me… When I come here, that’s mostly what I order.

I rate this a 4, «Yay! I’m a fan» because it’s true. I AM a fan of the CHATIME franchise, and love that this one is so close to where I live, and would hate if it closed, cause I like it. However, I certainly understand all the 3 and 2 reviews.
I’ve been to China a few times in recent years, and I found Chatime there on occasion and found them to be really nice and friendly to my clearly non-​Chinese speaking self. It’s a «fancy» and «high tech» bubble tea chain– I mean, really, when was the last time you were asked what percentage of sugar you’d like in your tea? It’s pricey in COMPARISON to the cheap places, but arguably the aspiration of the franchise is closer in line to the Starbucks experience, not your mom-​n-​pop $ 2 bub tea place, and I’m not exactly surprised by the cost here.
HOWEVER, this Chatime is pretty bad, customer service is not always friendly and today they ran out of tapioca pearls /​bubbles. I mean, does Starbucks run out of coffee? Also, seems a bit grubby. I guess it comes with the territory of being on 8^th ave. I’m still going to go here, because, yummy, yay Chatime, etc, but, ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT obviously.

Their teas are pretty good but expensive. Sometimes they’ll have things out of stock for some reason. A whole season or two I checked once in a while for mousse and they never had it. Was I just unlucky? Or did they just not order it/​prepare it all those months? Now every time I order mousse that lady at the cashier will turn around and ask if they still have mousse. One time she even asked AFTER I paid, hahaha. But other than that, yeah their tea is pretty good.

I got red bean it was flavor less, too much ice. overly priced… not goin to buy from here again

Highlight: Hawaiian Fruit Tea is a must have from Chatime!
I was always a devoted fan and a regular of Kung Fu tea’s Passionfruit green tea! I never thought I would go anywhere else for it. Chatime opened and I decided to give it a try. I ordered my Passionfruit green tea and also the Hawaiian Fruit Tea. Wow… the fruity drinks were amazing!!! The Hawaiian Fruit Tea instantly became my favorite drink! I love the variety on the menu which is their advantage over Kung Fu Tea’s milk tea cluttered menu. There is always something worth trying on Chatime’s menu! The Roasted Brown Rice Tea was also a delightful treat for anyone who likes that «grainy» taste.
Their drinks tend to be on the sweet side so I will suggest anyone like me who does not like sugary drinks to ask for 30% sugar level. The cashiers do know their products which is a plus to me and they are always very delightful to answer!

On my way to the doctor’s office, I noticed with excitement that a Chatime had opened up on 8^th avenue. The bubble tea scene had certainly grown since the days of Ten Ren & Quickly’s — and I decided to stray from habit and opt for this new place instead of Ten Ren.
I ordered a taro bubble tea with tapioca, which was much more expensive than other places (about $ 5). Then, literally half a minute after I had paid, I realized that I hadn’t asked for half-​sugar, and quickly asked them if they could make it half sugar. The dude who was making the drink just said «nope, already put it in» and continued making the drink. I then looked, bewildered, at the cashier — and she repeated the same thing: «Sorry, he already put it in, so there’s nothing we can do about it. You should ask for no sugar first next time.»
Nothing they could do about it? Actually, I can think of quite a few things they could have done. #1: they could have made me a new drink. #2: if they didn’t want to waste/​drink the entire cup, they could have poured half of it into a cup and then filled it up again, effectively «halving» the sugar content.; #3: they could have asked me if I’d rather they pour out some of the liquid and put in more ice (not ideal for the average person, of course, but still a gesture — and since I like lots of ice in my drinks, I actually would’ve chosen that). Instead of making any attempt, however, they just shrugged their shoulders. What did they care? I already paid.
Now, I’m not a high maintenance person. I have never sent food back in a restaurant, or given waiters a hard time. So why did this episode, in which I was at least partially at fault for not specifying «half-​sugar» at the time of ordering, irritate me so much?
Well, in Chinatown (both here on 8^th avenue and all over the world) the modus operandi is simple: stores offer incredibly cheap prices, which are subsidized by virtually nonexistent service or attention to customer experience. So if the store messes up your order, it’ll be annoying but ultimately not a big deal — you can buy another one without batting an eye. That is what happens when you pay less than $ 1 for a filling pastry or drink — you learn to overlook flaws in service. (And if the bubble tea had been $ 1, I’d have happily just ordered another.)
That logic simply doesn’t hold, however, when a bubble tea costs a whopping $ 5. At that point, Chatime is charging me JUST AS MUCH AS STARBUCKS. Let’s let that sink in. Bubble tea gets elevated to the level of luxury coffee … but comes with none of those amenities. Whereas Starbucks is committed to satisfying the customer and will remake drinks even if the only issue is that it «tastes off», Chatime offers only indifference and a poor product, to boot.
Let’s describe the actual product, shall we? I’ve had bubble teas from all over the world (and many, many, many of them in Asia proper), and this taro milk tea was not only watery (like those powdery drinks you don’t proportion or mix well), but the tapioca also wasn’t good — it wasn’t chewy (instead of a good resistance, it felt limp). (And, of course, the entire drink was too sweet… haha)
I gave up drinking it and ended up voluntarily throwing about 40% of it away (and I hate wasting things). Readers, heed this warning: BEWARE & AVOID THIS PLACE — certainly the nearby Ten Ren (and even TBaar) are much better!

I went here when it recently opened I know late review but I was disappointed haha.
I think I ordered the QQ Lychee Yogurt Juice and it was pretty pricey. Like a starbucks for bubble tea if that made any sense hahahah I asked for a size small but when I looked at the receipt it was a large. The line was getting longer so I just let it be but I was pretty sure that I clearly asked for a small… However, it did taste pretty good, a little on the sweet side also they did take a long time to make it

How do you not have your signature drinks? And on top of that, I told the cashier TWICE I wanted LESS SUGAR and LESS ICE. I got MORE SUGAR and MORE ICE. Too bad I left before I got to try the drink. SMH… oh and did I mention the drink I ordered, she charged me extra for it when the menu clearly says another price?

After having bubble tea in California I feel like none of the shops in New York can compare… Chatime is not bad though and I would come back if I’m craving an iced matcha latte. I like my bubble tea to have alot of tea flavor and they do a decent job.
If you’re here to get 1 drink remember to bring cash. And there’s an option to tweak how sweet you want your drink to be and how much ice you want to be in it. Although there is a little hand drawn sign near the cash register, the cashiers never asked me if I wanted adjustments for my drinks. I’m guessing this is something you have to take the initiative for, but it would be nice if they asked.

I’m done with Kung Fu Tea. Wow I got the Chatime Roast Milk tea with grass jelly. It was a good combination of tea with milk and not to sweet just the way I like it. It is way better than Kung Fu tea and their fake milk powder. To bad its so far from my house. I also tried the Taro Milk Tea with Bubbles and its one of the best so far

As a franchise (and my experience at their Flushing store) I love Chatime. I especially love their red bean milk tea. So when I was walking down 8^th Ave and saw a Chatime I was so excited and decided to stop by and get my favorite. I told the girl clearly that I wanted the red bean milk tea with no bubbles and less sugar. It came to $ 3 and then I waited. When I got my drink I realized that they put bubbles in it anyways. So I told her «I told you no bubbles» and suddenly she seemed confused like she didn’t understand me. And then she said something to (who appeared to be the manager) and so the manager who was no where near the situation comes over and tries to find out what I wanted. And i repeated that Ihad wanted the red bean milk tea, no bubbles. And so then she says «next time don’t say pearls, just say you want cha time milk tea» or something to that effect. i didn’t reply. I didn’t like that she assumed that I had been the one to order wrong and so it was my fault. When I got the drink again I had the feeling that they didn’t give me red bean flavor at all but just gave me plain black tea milk tea but at this point I was tired and ready to go.
I want other places besides Flushing to give me great milk tea, but time and time again I keep running into not so good experiences at milk tea stores not in Flushing. Although the drink in itself tasted great, I didn’t get what I had asked for, and I didn’t appreciate being talked to as if it was my mistake in ordering. I clearly stated «red bean milk tea, no bubbles».
If I ever do go back I hope they can give me what I ordered and do not assume if something does go wrong that it was my fault.

To be honest. I didn’t want to like this place but I actually really really liked the Brown Rice Tea drink. It was refreshing but just a little too sweet or else is would of been perfect! The tapioca is good here too, but not the jelly.
However, they took like 5 minutes to make the drink. and the price is still expensive.

Cannot justify how a banana bubble tea can cost $ 4. I’ve just been too spoiled with Hi Tea’s 2.50 drinks. This chatime in particular has really good customer service but I don’t think their prices should be that high considering it’s just bubble tea at 8^th avenue. The drink itself was pretty good, made just the way I expected it to be but that shouldn’t be hard since it’s chatime.

$ 3 for a small regular bubble milk tea here. No thank you. The bubble tea is just okay and not worth the $ 3 price tag. Must be the highest priced bubble tea on 8^th ave strip. While the other joints are under $ 3. I still like Ten Ren a block down more and it’s cheaper.

This is the newest bubble tea place along 8^th avenue, Chatime finally came to Brooklyn! The drinks are pretty much the same as any other Chatime. I did notice that the service isn’t as friendly as other locations though. There usually isn’t much of a line to order, but the wait for your drink can get a bit long. Yes, Chatime is a bit more expensive compared to other bubble tea places, but I think it’s worth it if you get drinks that aren’t offered at other chains. I like their mellow milk tea series or their oriental pop tea series.