Lollicup Coffee & Tea

I’m not a boba person… i just love tea… and Unsweetened Tea… but the tea was decent. I wish they’d name these places BUBBLE TEA… or BOBA WORLD… haha. oh well

Friendly service, nice beverages and reasonable pricing. 5 stars. Nice selection too.

This place is no longer a «Lollicup» but they still have the same menu and everything tastes the same, so thats fine with me! Sometimes they’re cheap with the AC and it gets hot in here, but overall its still a good place to come grab a snack and a drink before class. I love the kumkwat and lemon juice w/​jelly. Its no longer on the menu, but they still make it for me. On those really hot days, mango snow w/​mango jelly can’t be beat! The popcorn chicken at Lollicup (here) is always better than any other boba place, you’ll see me here at least once a week!

I like the Lollicup in Chinatown, but I wouldn’t recommend stopping by this location for the following reasons:
1) It took me several tries to find the place. There is no large «Lollicup» sign… in fact, the main sign for the store had some other name (and the Lollicup website
doesn’t even list this location).
2) When I did finally locate the store, it was closed.
3) Tea Spots is about a block away. It has good boba, good hours, and reasonable prices. If you want boba, go to Tea Spots!

Wait time is 20 mins and there’s always a long line of students from the local college and that’s just daytime :(Drinks are yummy, but the food does not look like the pictures. I mean, you might see cabbage and get corn. Which is pretty ridiculous…

Oh, man. No. Sorry. I couldn’t enjoy this place. For something simple like popcorn chicken and a thai tea, it took ages. The place was empty, and I waited around for about 20 minutes. Afterwards, I could barely eat the food because it just smelled old.
The place is a little rink-​a-​dink, but I can handle a sort of grubby establishment if everything else is okay, but man… I didn’t really wish to be inside for that long, especially with the old dirty smells wafting from the back, along with the garbage smell.
Not appetizing at all, and I was just sad being inside.

I get the same thing every time, milk tea with boba. Plain, simple and delicious. Their boba is good every single time, soft and chewy which is how I like it. I’ve never actually gotten food here, or at any boba place, so I can’t give too much info about that. Although, their menu is a lot larger than most boba places.
I’ve only dealt with one employee and he is very friendly and strikes up random conversations with me. It’s never been busy whenever I’ve gone which has been at different hours each time.
Cash only!

What you should know:
* short wait time
* friendly owner and his wife
* this place is good for and drinks
* your food is not prepared by the part-​time (your drink is)
* if you know Mandarin chat with the owner
This lollicup has exceeded my expectation. That’s why i bother to write a review. Three of my friends and I had lunch here today. I had shredded chicken in noodle soup and kamquat lemon green tea. My friends had salt pepper chicken lunch set, beef noodle soup, yaukurt lemon tea and iced green tea. The food are simple and nice.

Teas are just like any other Lollicup — although they recently changed their names.
Their food is less delicious than the other Lollicup’s food. The service is good but they’re less professional. The atmosphere is less decorative and they appear to be dirtier.
But teas/drinks/boba’s the same!

So our office had a craving for boba, and fortunately someone suggested this place. There are soooo many options that it’s really overwhelming when deciding on which flavor to select.
There was only one person working but he was super friendly and patient as we decided on our boba.
We got plum, passion fruit and taro. I loved the taro slush! it was the perfect remedy to the scorching day. Plus the prices aren’t bad and you can also get a snack while you get your beverage.

So I think the first few times I went here, I was just super excited to find asian food AND boba within walking/​longboarding range. Because of that, I went with my friends here a couple times because it was cheap and yummy asian food. That’s what I disillusioned myself into thinking anyway. Every time I ate there, I would think back on it later in the day and realize that honestly… it wasn’t that good, and then I’d get a little sick thinking about what I just ate.

This place is real small and all the clutter makes this place look filthy they should know that less is more… They offer a variety of teas, slushies, juices, you name it they probably have it here. I have to agree that there are always Asians in here who just stare too much but oh well lol haven’t tried their food and probably never will it just doesn’t seem like a trustworthy place to eat from but there bobas are always good.

I’ll say they aren’t focus on their decoration (but not too bad.) The importance is their TEAs are really good in quality! I love their Boba Milk Tea, Green Tea, Green Bean Slushes and Water melon Juice! Their meals are okey, but their fried popcon chicken, fried tofu and fried tempura are yummy!!! OH I almost forget their best food — beef stew noodle!
Dont expect to enjoy surrounding there. but you will get a good tea time!

I’m sorry Tea Zone, but why do you time warp us into Chinatown from the Gremlins movie?
It really smelled unappetizing (ridiculously strong odors coming from the kitchen, they need to keep the door open) and the Thai Iced Tea I got was more on the orange side (meaning I wish it had a little more milk).
The signs are all unkempt, and the kitchen… I don’t want to know. It could be a lot better in there, but it’s not. I also question their cleanliness. Not cool man. I don’t want to give you a bad review but serving food to the public shouldn’t be so unruly. CASH ONLY (you should be so lucky).

You can’t really expect much here… except to get your boba. eat some quick chinese food and then peace out.
All their beverages are pretty delicious.
their food… i don’t really recommend it. It’s hard to get chinese food in pasadena for cheap so if you must have ground pork with rice, fried rice, chow mein. things like that then go for it. IT WONT SATISFY YOUR CRAVING! haha well it might a little.
I was craving ground pork with rice… it didnt do it for me. The sauce was bland.
My friend had curry. it looked good. They give you LOTS OF CURRY with a small bowl of rice.
They also have spicy wontons! (hong you chao shou… red oil wonton) I didnt try it. but i wanted to
Popcorn chicken available. LOOKED YUMMY! so maybe that sort of appetizer stuff will be delicious!
well im grateful for this one of few boba place in Dena :)
(probably more expensive then a lollicup in. well lets say.alhambra. i think.)

Came in again after a few years drought-​usually go to Bobaworld in Old town or more recently Saigon Noodle (no boba in theirs though).
Thai Iced Tea w/​Boba, still excellent.
I tried the food once a few years, I don’t remember how it was, but I know I didn’t get sick — though I never tried food there again. So that might say something.
Great for quick boba pickups, there’s limited parking but there are also 2 30 min zones on the side of the building.
Cash only — but they do have an ATM inside, not sure how much the ATM rapes you in fees though.

Please don’t eat here. :(I had a boba drink (which was good) but then I ordered the «popcorn chicken» which turned into food poisoning vomit chicken.
Sorry, but yes, it was filthy but I thought you cant mess it up right? Wrongggg. I should have noticed there odd and distorted signs, uncovered boba, dank inner kitchen you can see… blahh.
It is close to PCC though so its good for drinks.
Good luck if you order food ;)

Sketchy, yes. Tasty, yes. I think there are classier Lollicups to go to. However, for someone like me, who has to hit all of them up, well I recommend it ONLY if you are in the area and want to see a hole in the wall Lollicup and need your fix. The man behind the counter was friendly and efficient.

Ghettofied poser Lollicup. Semi-​filthy. But still, I keep buying green tea boba for lunch. I’m the poster child for healthy.
‘Nuff said.
**Cash only**

It’s a generic boba place with a lot of different flavors. In all my experience with boba places this one had a variety of flavors and combinations I hadn’t see at the time.
They have a good selection of dishes so you could easily make a lunch out of it. I would order the shrimp pork dumplings that came with sauce that would smell strong but was delicious.
What really got me coming back often was the fried squid balls. I would try to convert folks to the dark ways of these treats but the idea of a squidball deep fried would turn them away. Their loss.