Honey Osmanthus Milk Tea

I went out for bubble tea with a coworker/friend last Friday after work – she picked the location, and she happened to choose a bubble tea place here in MTL that I’ve actually not been to yet so I decided to treat myself and order two flavours of milk tea in order to get a proper sense of the location…

This was the slightly more traditional flavour option that I went with – I don’t know why, but I thought this was an oolong tea!? It was nestled in the menu alongside a bunch of other milk teas with oolong in the drink name so I guess I’d just assumed? I suppose it very well could have been – but it did taste more like the black tea base that was used in the other drink I ordered rather than any sort of oolong based milk tea I’ve experienced.

Aside from that I didn’t love this flavour option – osmanthus is a tricky flavour for me, personally, to pick up on and I wasn’t getting anything from this aside from a sweet honey, creamy milk, and the aforementioned black base. So it did taste alright, but I felt like it didn’t fully deliver on what I’d expected.

Maybe worth note that I ordered both bubble teas half sweet, and I also added in the cute “mini tapioca” that the location offered – which were basically regular tapioca but at a third of the size. I liked the experience/texture of the mini tapioca a lot more than expected – I didn’t wind up with the situation where you just have a million tapioca left over in the cup after finishing the bubble tea and they were the perfect amount of squishy/chewable. That was definitely one of the more unexpected highlights from the location!