My Tea House

This is the one half of Xiong’s Café where nobody goes… for a reason. Well, first because you usually have to order from Xiong’s since it doesn’t really have any dedicated staff. But really because it’s just not very good.
The prices are great, and you won’t find cheaper Milk Tea ($ 2.35 or $ 2.75 w/​tapioca, 22 oz) anywhere else in Chinatown except maybe Star Snow Ice. But the drinks are just cheap powder mixes + stale, days-​old, mushy tapioca. Watch how fast they make your drink. The lady that made mine — Mrs. Xiong I think — took about a minute, maybe even less. That’s impressive, but not a good sign. Just like at Star Snow Ice, the price is right, but you get what you paid for.
My milk tea pretty much tasted like the canned/​powdered milk teas you can buy at the supermarket or vending machines in Asia. It’s not bad, having some tea flavor without being too sugary or milky. But it’s not good either, and you might as well buy some cheaper milk tea at the H-​Mart nearby. Their tapioca pearls are unsweetened and enormous. They barely fit through the straw, kinda interesting. But they’re unfortunately very mushy and old, probably soaked in water for a very long time, which explains their size.

I came for some milk tea mostly because I was just looking for something in this shopping center. I had no idea that this was affiliated with old place café (xiong café) until I tried to order and I had to go over to the old place café. Almost made me wish I had room for a bowl of noodles.
Back to the bubble tea. Pretty average if not slightly diluted. I prefer strong tea flavor, so while the sweetness was diluted (a positive– I’m getting old), I wanted a stronger tea flavor. Bubbles were fine. I got one that wasn’t quite done, but it’s probably an outlier.

Unilocaled the closest boba joint to Sinh Sinh and this was what we got. Didn’t want to deal with the Houston-​Bellaire traffic any longer. Thought it was a boba joint but it actually was a restaurant that made boba drinks. The lady and man was nice – even attempted to speak Viet to us when she found out we were Viet. Although service was friendly, their boba drinks were very bland & used powder. Probably will resort to other places for boba next time, but their authentic chinese dishes looks delish (from looking at customers’ tables).

Watermelon Milk… it was just something that sounded interesting.
It is now an obsession! The only problem I have is that they use whole milk. My new diet doesn’t approve. I’ve attempted to get watermelon milk elsewhere but other places just don’t cut it like this one does. Delicious, cool and refreshing! I’ll definitely be back!

5 stars alone for the best milk tea tapioca. I used to go to Star Snow Ice but it’s way too sweet now.
The milk tea tapioca has a really good strong tea flavor yet is sweetened by the amount of milk. The tapioca is not hard but soft and chewy. It’s only $ 2.50 and a great size! They have a stamp card where you buy 5 drinks and get a free tapioca milk tea.

This place displaced my favorite teahouse of a decade (Teahouse) — My Tea House has the best boba milk tea. I like my tea strong and don’t like too much cream and sugar. And the boba (tapioca) is soft and chewy even when I go at night (they harden by night time at lot of places).
Plus, the get 5 get 1 free is the best frequent tea drinker card deal I’ve seen.
Just by the way– whoever that said they haven’t had good milk tea in Houston hasn’t drank in enough places in town. I’ve lived in Philadelphia, LA, and Shanghai and have had boba milk tea in Taipei, Hong Kong, NY, and Seoul in addition to the places I’ve lived — outside SH and Taipei, Houston has the best boba, hands down.
Update: Gong Fu tea now makes my favorite milk tea in town. But the service here and the frequent buyer card tops Gong Fu’s.

Small, cozy, nondescript teahouse in the heart of chinatown that serves up the usual pearl milk tea drinks and smoothies and also rice dishes and noodles. The owners finally got smart and knocked down the wall connecting it to Xiong’s so now ordering from both menus from either place has become much more convenient. The regular milk tea here has a distinct taste that I’ve been enjoying recently. I’ve only tried the chicken nuggets, which are a bit dry and spicy. But I like the fact that they shovel on a lot of veggies. Got to stay regular, ya kno?

I was expecting a little more when it came to going to a teahouse for drinks after eating dinner near by. I was expecting desert and maybe a coffeehouse type of atmosphere. The had a short list of drinks and smooches. Pretty basic and prepackaged bags tea with a plastic seal on top of the container. They use Lipton teabags for a bunch of drinks and don’t use real fresh fruit for there smoothies. They alae did not serve any form of dessert besides smoothies. No fruit ice cream cake or anything. They did have big bowls of Phở soup with big chunks of meat. I noticed a bunch of people eating. I was little confused since I thought it was suppose to be a teahouse other then a Vietnamese restaurant. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm…

Tried a red bean slush boba on my second visit to My Tea House. It was a much better selection as opposed to my first experience with this place’s milk tea boba. The slush gets to be a bit much though; it was really sweet. The boba is decent, and the pricing reasonable. The lady at the counter is very sweet too. She happily replaced my friend’s order when it wasn’t exactly what she had asked for. Her great service is worth giving this place another few tries.

This is a nice little hole in the wall where you’re definitely better off if you speak Chinese. The menu seems to mostly consists of Taiwanese drinks and dishes.
Since we had just eaten when we stumbled upon this shop, we went for the drinks, and as always, I went straight for a pearl milk tea. The pearls were a little too soft, but the milk tea was good. They also had some pretty good fruit ‘teas’/drinks with fresh squeezed fruit. Nice and refreshing.
Listening to some of the other diners (all older Taiwanese speaking aunties), it seems like this place is popular lunch spot for those seeking a taste of home. I just might have to stop by for lunch the next time I’m in town.
They do have a small English menu if you don’t know or, like me, have forgotten how to read Chinese…

I have been looking for a good boba tea place in Houston and so far had no luck! This place had a very limited selection of tea… and it’s a «tea house»??? It was fairly small and the people had a difficult time understanding English.
They didn’t have my favorite, almond milk tea with jellies. I ended up ordering the passion fruit green tea, and the guy behind the counter asked if I wanted boba. I normally don’t get boba but instead mango jellies. I asked if they had jellies and he looked really confused, so I said you know jello? And he was like, oh yeah, and he pointed to the area on the side that looked questionable but I accepted the mango jellies thinking I couldn’t go wrong.
As I’m sure you guessed, that was a huge mistake. The drink itself was decent, but so sugary that I couldn’t finish all of it. I felt like I was drinking juice and not tea. The jellies were not even close to being jellies! I have no idea what they actually were, but my best description would be tofu textured cubes that were cut so big they wouldn’t even go through the boba straw. They did not taste like mango at all and they were not jello — just all around bad.
I won’t be going back.

We burst through the door and immediately stopped. Instead of a retail shop selling loose tea, as we’d expected, we were suddenly standing in a small café, feeling awkward and very white. I glanced to the left at the menu on the wall– hmm no English.
Well, hm. I was turning to back slowly out the door when we spotted a small laminated menu on the counter. Ah, another bubble tea place (there, um, are a lot of these in Houston, eh?) We’d been planning on hitting up Suzhi Teahouse instead, but hey, we were in here already. J ordered a red bean shake and I got a boba milk tea. As we sat, I studied the Golden Palace security guard munching contentedly in the corner, and the middle aged woman reading a Mandarin newspaper.
Mmmmm milk tea. How deeply I love you. Even with the boba in my cup, taking up space where more milk tea could be, It never tastes the same when I make it at home!
Wonder how the food is– looked like a friendly little intimate spot.

Today was quite an adventure. We spent a good part of the day looking for an Asian furniture store that never materialized. As a result, we spent a good part of the day going back and forth on Bellaire and surrounding streets trying to find it.
During another part of our wanderings we decided to check out a bakery, feng sui shop and «my tea house» hoping that it sold high quality loose tea.
Turns out, it was yet another milk/​bubble/​boba tea place that also sells hot snack meals, none of which we know anything about, because the menu wasn’t in English. At all.
So, we ordered a couple of cold drinks to go. Their drink list is surprisingly short, which is why this isn’t a higher star rating. I mean, it’s called a tea house, that should be the menu focus, no? I dunno.
Anyway, my red bean smoothie was really good and Liz’s milk tea was good, too. The shop was clean and bright and the drinks came out fast.