Vivi Bubble Tea

Great addition to Hoboken. I come here a lot for bubble tea and popcorn chicken (max spicy). It’s so hot and delicious. I’ve had the ramen and its good but not really my thing. The Taiwanese sausage is pretty good too. If you don’t like your milk tea to be too sweet, make sure to ask for what level you want (I.e. 50% sugar or 75% sugar). Enjoy!

The best bubble tea, no question about it. I had the ramen such was great also.
Very stylish and fun environment and the staff is nice. No complaints I highly recommend the place.

Tried this bubble tea joint in multiple locations and I must say, it was delightful! I loved the coconut milk tea. They have a huge variety of drinks such as milk tea, just milk, smoothies and yogurt drinks. My husband likes the jelly but I like the classic bubbles. Now we make it a habit to stop here if we see one! Yum yum yum! Tried a few other bubble tea places and they were not even close to this quality. If you like bubble tea, I recommend you try it here!

Best chocolate bubble tea ever! Fresh, tasty, terrific.
The chicken wings on also beyond average level. Way better than chicken-​filla or pop-​eyes at the very least.
The music there is also quite good. :)

Ordered the spicy Tonkotsu Ramen. Lots of toppings, not super salty, and very large portions. I could hardly finish my bowl. My son usually gets the Shoyu Ramen with the toppings on the side and loves it! The taro milk tea was delicious. Not too many local places that serve authentic ramen. I highly recommend Vivi’s.

I really don’t like the bubble tea from this place. I ordered the milk green tea and it just tasted like straight leaves with no sugar. I enjoy Babos in downtown jersey city much better. I had high hopes for this place because they offer pudding, something most places do not, but the drink was still horrible. The tapioca wasn’t anything special at all. Babos’ tapioca is much better and sweeter.

So my best friend and I read the reviews before coming here from most of the «elite» Unilocaler’s who stated that the ramen is «salty» … Maybe they’re salty because they lack taste. Or maybe the restaurant read the reviews and updated the recipe lol but either way, being Hispanic … I KNOW when food is too salty lol. This ramen was great and under $ 10. Well $ 11 if you do count with the tax lol. But this ramen was amazing I had the Shoyu Ramen (spicy) and my friend had the Tonkotsu Ramen. Personally I don’t like corn so I wouldn’t have that one but I loved the broth on that one. Mine was perfect in the aspect of sodium levels lol. But I had your basic default spicy ramen. The place is beautiful and small. Love the décor. The reviews here by those elite members are misleading. You should try the food here before judging. We were afraid to try but we decided «fluff it» you should always try something once. Anyway love the Ramen. Loved the taro tea. (popcorn chicken… Meh. Lol it was okay) but ramen and tea AMAZING! You should try this place !

Staff is friendly and they have a good variety of beverages (and add-​ons) to choose from — slushes, milk teas, fruit teas, etc. A little overwhelming at first, but they’re willing to assist with choosing what to drink.
They have machines to help with shaking the beverages for mixture and to seal the cups. I have always gotten the fruit teas, and they’re always sweet and tasty!
I have not personally eaten the food snacks that are also now available (chicken wings, ramen, etc.) but I’ve heard from friends that they’re pretty good. On my next visit, I’ll probably give it a try!

When Vivis first opened up in Hoboken I was ecstatic. Finally a place dedicated to bubble tea. I’ve been several times and each time it’s less fulfilling than the time before that.
For starters the bubbles are mushy, good bubbles are essential to the bubble tea experience. They need to have the right chewiness and the right sugar level. Ive ordered several drinks and have asked for a variety of sugar levels and still feel each drink is too sweet and not enough tea. Its like drinking sugar water lightly flavored with tea.
The décor could use some work, the bright florescent lights make you feel like you’re walking into a dingy gas station. And where the food comes out is inconveniently placed far away from the drink counter. Where if you’re standing when they blend your drink you can’t hear anything being called out.
The service is mediocre at best, I’ve gone when it’s super busy and also when it’s empty and no matter what, they can’t seem to keep track of who ordered what.

I made a visit to Vivi’s last night with my girls and it was amazing! I had the chocolate bubble tea w/​tapioca and it was delightful and creamy. I also had the vegetable ramen, man oh man! The broth was superb and the veggies were fresh and cooked to perfection! When you go ask for Fu and tell him I sent ya!

Came here while visiting Hoboken with my girlfriend. Glad a small town such as Hoboken has a bubble tea place since they are everywhere in Manhattan, BK, and surrounding areas. This place is very very clean, there is a nice and friendly wait staff, affordable pricing and a great selection.
Bubble tea is typically very standardized, but what sticks out about this place is how clean it is, it’s air conditioned well (which on a hot summer day is nice), a few tables with two couches as well.

I’m a big fan of Vivi, frequenting the NY locations at least once a week, travel schedule provided. Thus, I was thrilled to pass one while exploring Hoboken with a friend this past weekend. This location is like the others, with the same menu and the main exception being that it’s far larger, with more seating, and I believe, upon further inspection, a few more food options.
I got my usual — 3Q milk tea, light ice. The drink was made well, tasted as it was expected, but the wait seemed long for a relatively short line.

One of the representations of Hoboken’s greatness comes in the form of this splendid boba shop. This Taiwan pearl milk tea has expanded itself onto 20 locations and mainly can be found in New York, so the fact that it’s blessed itself onto Hoboken, it makes Jersey pretty lucky. Vivi has an extensive tea selection along with macaroons, slush, milk teas, Taiwan snacks and most of it’s consumers are repetitive due to the fact that you can’t really find that many almond milk tea with royal jelly and aloe. If you haven’t been to this place then I heavily recommend it and keep trying out different teas/​toppings until you find the one that appeals to you the most.
Recommended paid dues goes out to the orange kiss refreshing jelly drink, along with japanese matcha milk tea with boba, or taro with royal jelly. Honestly the recommendations are endless so I suggest sneak peaking their menu before a selection is chosen:
Boba tea rules and if you haven’t tried it yet then what are you waiting for? Summer is the perfect time to freshen out and drink as many teas as possible! Another fact that makes this place epic is that you can choose your sugar content on drinks so you can still have control over your health while enjoying different teas! Salute!

Nice to see Vivi spreading into NJ. They are a Taiwanese chain which makes them a legit bubble tea maker. I’ve been to a couple Vivi locations in the city and I have found the bubble tea consistently good. Same goes for this location. What is great about Vivi is that you can specify sweetness and ice level. The bubbles have the right consistency. They have a variety of flavors which don’t have that artificial taste.
Most recently I had the passion fruit QQ, 50% sweet. Comes with boba and jellies. Refreshing and thirst quenching on a hot day. Despite it being 50% sweet it was still too sweet for me. I feel anything juice based will always be sweet. Will have to try 25%.
What’s different about this Vivi is that is serves food and snacks. Not sure I would come here specifically for food but would give their Taiwanese snacks a try. Service is friendly.

Vivi Bubble Tea can top any of the places that I’ve tried in Palisades Park. The flavor of the tea is just right and the FREE tapioca is not annoyingly too chewy.
This place looks immaculate, truly delightful to the eye. The cleanliness and work flow is admirable. The small cartoon toys add a nice touch to the décor. The menu is totally easy to follow and the staff helps you with any doubt that you may have.
I tried the grapefruit pulp bubble tea with tapioca. I enjoyed every sip of it. It tasted really natural and I think you would appreciate the cool art on the cup.
I also tried my wife’s coconut milk bubble tea. Sorry not a big fan but my wife loved it.
Finally the salt and pepper popcorn chicken. The taste was ok but the presentation was very cool. I guess now I want to try the spicy version.
I will be coming back for more and next time ramen is the next victim.

Love small balls bursting in your mouth? Oh stop, get your head out of the gutter, I’m talking about Tapioca! FREE tapioca included with any drink.
I like the fact that you can customize your drink to your liking. You can control your sugar level, great for diabetics and people watching there weight. You can choose no sugar, 30% less, 70%, regular or extra sugar. Even the ice is optional, less, regular or extra.
These drinks are great for summer days or just to try something new. They are very refreshing and addicting. I like the Honey dew and matcha (green tea) so far, but there are plenty of flavors to satisfy everyone’s taste buds.

Been here 3 times now, plan to be here a ton.
Place has excellent service, everyone is willing to answer questions about what a particular item is, what is in it, and make recommendations of popular items.
We have had the shoyu ramen (chicken and kombu broth) $ 9.95 and tonkotsu ramen (chicken, pork and kombu broth) $ 12.95 (we made it spicy), spicy and salt & pepper fried chicken, and a few bubble teas — yakult slush no added sugar, passion fruit flavored tea 30% sugar less ice, and japanese matcha 30% sugar less ice.
First the ramen, I actually prefer the less expensive shoyu. I thought it was fantastic. Great savory flavor and HOLY MEAT. All the meat has been cooked perfectly, so tender, juicy and flavorful, HUGE pieces — very generous. I prefer the ramen I had here to the ramen at Mitsuwa (GF disagrees, she prefers the more miso-​flavored ramen at Mitsuwa, I don’t care much for miso). Portions are monstrous — much more than you get at Mitsuwa. GF and I share one bowl and it is plenty.
Enjoyed every bubble tea so far, haven’t experienced some of the issues some others have had (cloudiness etc)…Great that they offer less sugar and ice, huge perk for me as I don’t care much for very sweet things. Also great thing to learn from the staff is that all bubble teas except moo moo milks are lactose free (for those intolerant individuals like myself — your loved ones will be appreciative of this)!!

I think this place could be much better. However, I am primarily basing this review off of the way they make their bubble tea. This particular location out of most bubble tea spots has an awesome selection of different things to try but the execution is somewhat lack luster and falls flat from their smaller location in NYC and varied bubble tea spots in NJ.
Since it is a chain, it would be expected to have some standard in drink production, but every milk tea based drink I’ve had here was still powdery and next to flavorless. I keep trying to see if it depends on who made the drinks but after trying a few times they all seemed to use too much non dairy creamer, and not mixing it well.
They offer various foods too but if they can’t even make a simple black milk tea taste good, I doubt the food will be executed as just. I’ll give this place one thing though. And that would have to be their inviting interior and overall cleanliness. Great staff, and everyone is super friendly. In the end, having clean facilities and great staff can only take you so far. I look forward to when they can produce a better product. I really want to like the spot, but the milk tea based drinks are just disappointing.

I came here so often since it’s opened and finally got a chance to try their ramen. It is NOT as good as some of the reviews suggest. I had my hope high and was very disappointed. It wasn’t bad but nothing special, tasted a little bland to me. You can get better pre-​packages ramen from mitsuwa. I would return for milk tea and snacks, but probably not for ramen.

So glad a bubble tea place finally opened up in the area. Especially one with such a nice atmosphere to be able to sit and enjoy your drink. Staff was really courteous. I’ve tried Matcha and Mango so far, they were both great and had a generous helping of bubbles.
Looking forward to going back to try the ramen and some more of their bubble tea offerings.