Fro-yo girl here. It’s been awhile since I had a boba ice cream bar. The I-MEI Ceylon Milk Tea Boba Ice Bars seem to be fairly new. I spotted them at 168 Market and 99 Ranch Market in San Gabriel, California. One box contains four individually wrapped bars weighing 80g each. 99 Ranch was selling the box of I-MEI Ceylon Milk Tea Boba Ice Bars for $7.99, regular price. I-MEI is a Taiwanese brand and the ice bars are a product of Taiwan.
I-Mei Ceylon Milk Tea Ice Bar: The ice bar is smaller. It had lots of boba. I encountered a few boba in every bite. The tapioca balls were very sweet, soft, and chewy. The bar was creamy and milky with a strong tea flavor. The bar seemed super sweet and the balls were even sweeter. One bar is 140 calories with 5g total fat, 22g total carbs, 15g total sugars, and 1g protein.
I think I’m getting tired of boba ice cream bars because they’re too sweet. I wouldn't order a boba milk tea at regular sweetness either.
3.5 out of 5 stars.
You know you love me. X0 X0, fro-yo girl.
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Fro-yo girl here. I found I-Mei’s Green Tea & Red Bean Milky Ice Bar and Red Bean Milk Ice Bar at 99 Ranch Market in Arcadia, CA. They were on sale, 2 boxes for $7 (regular price, $4.89 per box). These aren’t boba bars but I like them better than boba bars. Each box comes with 5 individually wrapped bars, imported from Taiwan.
Red bean milk ice bar: If you’ve ever had Chinese red bean milk, this bar will taste familiar. The ingredients are similar – water, red beans, sugar, milk. One bar is 88g, 160 calories, 6g total fat, 23g total carbs, 11g total sugars, and 5g protein. If you like red bean milk drinks, you’ll like the red bean milk ice bar. It was firm and on the icier side but not watery. I liked how it was packed full of sweet whole red beans. It was sweet but not crazy sweet and the iciness made it refreshing. 4.5 out of 5 stars.
Green tea & red bean milky ice bar: So good. I love green tea, red bean and the combination of the two. Half the bar was sweet cream flavored and the other half green tea with tiny pieces of red bean. The bar was softer and creamier than the red bean ice milk bar. I could definitely taste the green tea and red bean, plus the two sides were complementary. So good! I'm getting more of these. One 88g bar had 180 calories, 9g total fat, 21g total carbs, 20g total sugars and 3g protein. 5 out of 5 stars.
You know you love me. X0 X0, fro-yo girl.
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Fro-yo girl here. When I first tried boba ice cream bars, I tried two kinds of brown sugar boba ice cream bars, one from Shao Mei and one from I-Mei. The boba in those bars was soft but I missed the milk tea flavor. So, I was excited to try milk tea boba ice cream bars. 99 Ranch in Arcadia, CA had quite a few varieties of boba ice cream bars.
I-Mei Pearl Milk Tea Ice Bar: A pack of four individually wrapped bars was $4.89. The bars are imported from Taiwan. One bar (88g) has 170 calories, 10g total fat, 18g total carbs, 16g total sugars, and 2g protein. It’s made with black tea, tapioca starch, agar and conjac powder. One side of the bar was white, sweet and creamy (like milk) and one side (about 2/3rds of the bar) tasted like milky black tea with a few “boba bits. The boba pieces were small and there were few of them. The bar was delicious and had a strong tea flavor. The boba bits were like jelly though and not chewy. It would have been better without the boba.
A Ching Oolong Tea Boba Ice Cream Bar: A pack of four individually wrapped bars was $6.99. The bars are imported from Taiwan. One bar is 178 calories, 10g total fat, 19g total carbs, 15g total sugars, and 2g protein. The white top of the bar was sweet and creamy and almost caramel like, with a few boba balls. The brown part tasted like oolong tea and it had more boba balls. The balls were crunchy and icy; they tasted more like jelly than tapioca pearls. The bar smelled like boba milk tea. The bar would have been better without the boba balls.
The brown sugar bars that I tried had better boba but if you want tea flavor, these bars were better. They used a different type of tea, so both tasted different. I hope that I can find boba ice cream bars with strong tea flavor and chewy boba.
4 out of 5 stars.
You know you love me. X0 X0, fro-yo girl.
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Fro-yo girl here. It feels like forever since I found a new frozen yogurt popsicle at 99 Ranch Market. It’s been five years, but I recently spotted I-Mei yogurt ice bars. I-Mei is a Taiwanese brand and the popsicles are imported from Taiwan. I’ve seen their popsicles/ice bars for years, but not yogurt ones. 99 Ranch Arcadia had two flavors, Blueberry and Passion Fruit. One 260g box is $4.89 and contains four individually wrapped bars.
* Blueberry Yogurt Ice Bar: The bar had a thin, sweet white coating which seemed like white chocolate. The interior was soft and creamy, a nice texture. I was surprised by how tangy it was – way more than most yogurt bars. I didn’t think the coating was necessary but maybe it enhances the tanginess. There was a cream aftertaste. The I-Mei bars remind me of the Korean Greek yogurt bars from Lotte Foods but they’re tangier and have bits of dried blueberries.
One bar is 130 calories, 6g total fat, 18g total carbs, 15g sugars and 2g protein.
Ingredients: Water, sugar, milk powder, vegetable oil (coconut oil, sunflower oil, palm oil, rapeseed oil, antioxidant (mixed tocopherols concentrate)), blueberry, whey powder, pectin, citric acid, hydroxypropyl distarch phosphate, emulsifier (mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids), artificial flavorings (vanilla, blueberry, chocolate), soy lecithin, cocoa butter, cultured whole milk.
4 out of 5 stars.
You know you love me. X0 X0, fro-yo girl.
* 99 RANCH MARKET: 1300 S Golden W Ave, Arcadia, CA 91007
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