HEYTEA Milk Tea Popsicle Review

Fro-yo girl here. Good Fortune sells HEYTEA popsicles individually. Each popsicle comes in a nice-looking box. The popsicle flavors are grape & cheese, cheese & peach, grapefruit & mango, and milk tea.

The popsicles seem to be inspired by HEYTEA’s drinks. The logo even features someone drinking something from a cup. HEYTEA is a milk tea shop founded in Guangdong, China in 2012. The founder claims to have created cheese tea. The text on the packaging was in Chinese except for the words Popsicle and HEYTEA. The translated text on the box said, “HiTea Milk Tea Boba Popsicle” and “bite and eat.” The illustration shows the different flavors and textures in the popsicle. The exterior is Ceylon black tea ice, the interior is Ceylon tea ice cream with brown sugar boba, and the bottom is chi chi ice cream. I don’t know what chi chi ice cream is but I think it’s a cheese foam ice cream.

Milk tea popsicle: It’s an interesting popsicle. The brown exterior was firm and icy. It tasted like milk tea and was pleasant though quite icy. The interior was soft and creamy tea-flavored ice cream with soft, sweet, and chewy brown sugar boba. The boba had great texture. The very bottom was a creamy, sweet, rich, cheesy ice cream that I didn’t like but wasn’t so bad when mixed with the milk tea flavor. I wasn’t that fond of the icy shell either, though I liked the milk tea flavor.

One popsicle is $2.99. It was interesting and worth it, but I’m over boba milk tea popsicles.

Good Fortune Supermarket, 300 W Main St, Ste 120, Alhambra, CA 91801

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Orange Patisserie Boba Brown Sugar Milk Ice Bars Review

Fro-yo girl here. Orange Patisserie Boba Brown Sugar milk ice bars are a product of Japan. There are five individually wrapped small ice bars per box. The bars are wrapped in clear plastic. Each bar is 65ml.

I found them at a H Mart Arcadia for $7.99/box.

The actual bar looked paler than the one pictured on the box. It was soft and creamy with a milky flavor. And it was loaded with boba balls. The boba was soft but not chewy. While the bar was pleasant enough it lacked brown sugar flavor, was very sweet, and the balls were not chewy. It’s made with Okinawa brown sugar but apparently, not much of it.

One bar is 110 calories, 4g total fat, 18g total carbohydrate, 10g total sugars, and 1g protein. The list of ingredients was scary long but the main ingredients are water and sugar.

3 out of 5 stars.

* HMART: 1101 W Huntington Dr., Arcadia, CA 91007

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Boba Ice Cream Bar Reviews, Part 3: Tiger Sugar Black Sugar Boba Milk Ice Cream Bar and A-Chino Brown Sugar Boba Ice Cream Bar

Fro-yo girl here. Boba ice cream bars are good enough that I’m excited to try the different brands and varieties. I’m looking for a milk tea flavored bar with chewy boba and so far, I haven’t found it. This week, I tried two new bars: Tiger Sugar Black Sugar Boba Milk Ice Cream Bar and A-Chino Brown Sugar Boba Ice Cream Bar. I found them both at 99 Ranch Market in Arcadia, CA. 

Tiger Sugar Black Sugar Boba Milk Ice Cream Bar: A box of four individually wrapped bars was on sale for $7.99 (regular price $8.99). One 80g bar has 147 calories, 6g total fat, 22g total carbs, 15g sugar and 1g protein. The bar was a bit softer and less icy vs. A-Chino’s. It had a slightly stronger brown sugar flavor compared to A-Chino’s. There weren’t many boba pieces but they seemed larger. The boba were sweet and chewy. The exterior had brown sugar swirls and the interior was creamier. 4.5 out of 5 stars. 

A-Chino Brown Sugar Boba Ice Cream Bar: A box of four individually wrapped bars was $4.98 on sale, $5.99 regular price. One bar (80g) had 155 calories, 6g total fat, 23g total carbs, 16 total sugars, and 2g protein. There were more boba and the boba were sweet, soft and chewy. It mostly tasted like sweet cream, with a hint of brown sugar. 4 out 5 stars.

Both brands added molasses for a deep, rich sweetness. Both were imported from Taiwan. They looked very similar in appearance. They’re milkier and don’t have the intense brown sugar flavor of the leading brand, Shao Mei. Shao Mei’s is also the creamiest. Which one you like best will depend on how much brown sugar flavor you prefer. Shao Mei’s brown sugar flavor was overwhelming. My current favorite of the brown sugar boba bars is Tiger Sugar’s, though I prefer the flavor of the milk tea boba bars. 

Catch up on my other boba ice cream bar reviews, Part 1 & Part 2.

* 99 RANCH: 1300 S Golden W Ave, Arcadia, CA 91007

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