Wow Bubble Tea

Starbucks has more lunch offerings than Wow Bubble Tea, but to their credit, they do not open until 1:00 pm.  We scheduled ourselves for a 2:00 pm visit.  Interestingly, all of my colleagues had pressing work that needed to be done when it was time to go.  This must have been the case for the rest of town.  I arrived at 2:00 pm and was the only customer.  I continued to be the only customer for the duration of my visit.

There it is, an empty restaurant.  Big television screen on the right.

The menu is posted on several boards near the cash register.  It was difficult to tell if the various boards were duplicates of each other or new offerings.  The primary offering is bubble tea in its various styles:  milk tea, shakes, smoothies.  There seemed to be hundreds of choices.  The man behind the counter could not advise me on what their most popular bubble tea was, nor could he explain the frozen yogurt situation that was available to the left of the counter but not on the menus.  All of the various bubble teas on the menus were mixtures of three or four flavors.  It was overwhelming.

In the end, I ordered a smoothie because it was the most seemingly "natural" choice, just fruit, soy milk, and honey - and bubbles, of course.  Well, I did it my way...I asked for just strawberries, not a mixture.  Yeah, I was that kid who didn't want the food to touch on the dinner plate.  The resulting smoothie was tasty, not overwhelmingly sweet and had the chewy benefit of bubbles on the bottom.  The twelve ounce smoothie set me back $4.98.  That's about the going rate on the Ave.

I sat on one of the couches, hoping that at least one of my colleagues might show, and checked my work email.  It was quiet enough, that I made a business-related phone call from the bubble tea shop. It was a productive call.

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