Strawberry Pearl Milk is also one of the brand’s popular drinks. While Brown Sugar Pearl Milk is my no.1 pick, Xing Fu Tang offers variations of brown sugar drinks – including Brown Sugar Pearl Milk Tea ( 黑糖珍珠農奶茶 black tea base), Brown Sugar Pearl Black Tea Latte ( 黑糖珍珠紅茶拿鐵 ) and Brown Sugar Pearl and Herbal Jelly Milk ( 黑糖珍珠仙草鮮奶 ). After adding milk and cream on top of the drink, the server sprinkles brown sugar and torch it to caramelize the top. When you order your drink, you will get to see the server scoop the stir-fried brown sugar bubbles directly from a giant wok in display at the store.īesides the presentation, what separates Xing Fu Tang from other brown sugar bubble tea brands is the caramelizing process. The bubbles are made in the traditional way and steeped in caramelized brown sugar. It’s best known for its “stir-fried” Brown Sugar Pearl Milk ( 黑糖珍珠鮮奶 NT $55 for iced, NT $65 for hot). With the recent craze over brown sugar bubble tea, Xing Fu Tang ( 幸福堂 ) is here in Kaohsiung! Xing Fu Tang is a new bubble tea brand that already has more than 60 stores in Taiwan alone since its launch in 2018. I will let you decide after you try it out yourself. Regardless, I am not doing justice if I exclude this brand in the best bubble tea in the Kaohsiung list because the drinks are, in fact, excellent. 2) To make things worse, the servers in the Kaohsiung branch were impatient and unworldly rude with no intention to help customers. Besides the inadequate English translation, two Taiwanese and I couldn’t figure out the differences among so many similar drinks in its Chinese-language menu. (Although both boba and pearl usually refer to the same tapioca bubbles, Tiger Sugar decided to differentiate as such in their menu.) Once you decide on the bubble, you can choose your drink bases among fresh milk cream, black tea, green tea, or coffee.Īlthough I do think Tiger Sugar’s brown sugar pearl milk is tasty, I cannot say I’m a big fan of this shop for the following two reasons: 1) I find their menu super confusing. While you cannot adjust the sugar level at Tiger Sugar, you can select the size of bubbles – between boba ( 波霸 large) and pearl ( 珍珠 small). This process creates the brand’s iconic tiger stripes inside the cup, hence the name. Kaohsiung also got one store, too.ĭark brown sugar syrup is first poured along the side of a cup, then fresh milk cream (instead of regular milk or powder milk) is added. It has been expanding its footprint to Southeast Asia – including Hong Kong, Singapore, Vietnam, and the Philippines. Originated from Taichung – the birth city of bubble tea, Tiger Sugar ( 老虎堂 ) is currently one of the most hyped brands in the bubble tea industry. The article was originally published in 2018. It is often accompanied by chewy tapioca balls, called boba or pearl(珍珠), in the drink. Pro Tips: Milk tea has many different names – bubble tea, boba tea, pearl tea, and tapioca tea. This list also includes brown sugar bubble tea shops, which is a hot trend now in Taiwan (and other Asian countries), as well as Taiwan’s best milk tea brands with the Kaohsiung branch. To assist you with your quest to find the best bubble tea in Kaohsiung, I’d like to introduce a few of my favorite local milk tea shops. Only then, you can decide your own best milk tea. ![]() When you visit Taiwan, it’s almost mandatory to try as many milk tea as possible. And just like beef noodle soup, everyone has an opinion about which one is the best. Righteously, Taiwanese are milk tea snobs. I’m not kidding when I say there is at least one milk tea shop on every single block! After all, Taiwan is the birthplace of bubble tea. Thank you for your tips: Gretchen, Foo Concepts, imaginebobas and Chris.Two things are overflowing in Taiwan: the sea of scooters on the road and milk tea shops. If you know any place which isn’t on the list, let me know and I will add it to the list.
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