Chicha San Chen is praised for freshly brewed tea with authentic flavors and a strong focus on quality ingredients, offering customizable sweetness and dairy options and a well balanced tea with chewy pearls. However, reviews note a tiny, mostly to go setup with no indoor seating, occasional long lines, and variable service, while others highlight fast, friendly preparation and a standout tea experience.
Love the green tea honey or osmanthus honey here. The tea is really flavourful. I think because the tea is freshly brewed per order they keep the size standard. The only thing I wish would be for them to have a bigger size offering but maybe I'm just greedy. Would recommend.
Aug 2, 2025
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De loin le meilleur bubble tea que je n'ai jamais goûté. Aucune autre adresse ne vaut celle ci. En particulier pour la qualité du thé noir & des perles de tapioca. Je recommande absolument !!
I am a bubble tea fan, but mainly into fruity flavours. They did not want to add boba to anything in those lines though. Maybe a good idea to at least give the option.
Simply the best place to get boba in Chinatown! I appreciate the strong & complex tea flavors in the drinks. Even with low sugar, it's still flavorful.
If you're looking for an authentic bubble tea place, this is definitely your go-to place. This bubble tea shop is underrated deserves more attention & popularity. The tea is brewed freshly from tea leaves, the bubbles are freshly cooked & thus they are soft & chewy. This makes best bubble tea you can order, contrary to those powdery bubble teas from elsewhere. Very friend staff.
Ayy it's the tasty boba place known for making tasty boba.
First time trying it but it was pretty tasty as expected. The focus on the tea as well as the different method of fresh preparation made it taste better in my opinion.
This is the best & most fresh bubble tea I've ever had! They brewed the tea right there in front of you. We got the Taro King & Green Passionfruit tea with coconut jelly. Both drinks had bits of real fruit in there. The green tea one had passionfruit in it & the taro king had fresh taro paste in it. So delicious!
I had the osmanthus honey cold tea drink & loved it ! Refreshing, just sweet enough, perfect way to end the afternoon. I'll be back to try their Dong Ding drink, it smelled heavenly.
Got their Dong Ding Oolong Tea & the tea was brewed so well. Honestly, one of the best boba drinks I've had. The flavors, sweetness, & creaminess were perfectly balanced. I also love the packaging of the sleeve + carrier - so smart & convenient!
Jun 9, 2025
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My first bubble tea experience in Montreal & loved it!
Food: 5/5 - I had the THÉ OSMANTHUS
OOLONG AU MIEL (oolong tea with honey) with konjac & it was tasty. You can choose the level of sweetness & amount of ice. If you like taro, they have a taro drink.
Service: 5/5 excellent service
Atmosphere: 5/5 place is clean
They are located in Chinatown near the main gate. Overall I'll be back. They have won some awards proving that their teas are good!
The tea series are unique with 3 black teas & 3 green teas. The fruit teas are really good as well. The taro series are the special one because they use the fresh taro base & taro ball
Had really strong taste of tea unlike most boba places, asked for no ice & the drink came warm (but it's fine, didn't really know what to expect). Tapioca was very good & seemed fresh! $9+ for a small size was kinda rough but would probably come back to try something else
