Fuku Tea

Great place for bubble tea with many choices. It’s a small café with your choice of bubble tea, smoothies, and pastry snacks. Prices are good and wait time is fare. Will try again if I’m in Pittsburgh, PA again!

Coming from Boston that has Kung Fun tea, Cha Time, Tea do and other more established chains I always find Pittsburgh’s Boba scene lacking. I consider Fuku Pittsburghs only authentic Boba shop. Other places have great smoothies but less tea varieties.

Definitely the best bubble tea place in Pittsburgh! I have been here countless times and am always satisfied. Just tried the black and gold bubble tea, which was green tea with passion fruit and mango and tapioca. There really are endless combinations which make coming back fun. Plus they have a rewards system!

Nice little shop in the heart of Oakland; the boba was actually a little disappointing because it didn’t mix as well as it should have, but the little dessert I bought (a chocolate mousse) made up for it enough for me to swing them up to a 4 star rating. Seems like a nice place to study.

This place is very clean. People are also very nice. The most important is the drink tastes so good!

I’ve been here a few times and tried different flavored teas every time. I love their loose leaf tea options and the first time I visited, they mentioned they could make any of the hot teas cold, but I decided to get a regular green tea boba. The second time, I got the white tea rose mélange as a cold boba tea. They didn’t give me any problem making the loose leaf tea as a cold tea. The problem started from the third time I visited. I wanted the organic hibiscus berry tea as a cold boba tea. They told me they don’t make loose leaf teas as a cold tea, but I could get some boba in a separate cup. Thought it was weird since they were able to do that last time. But it wasn’t really an issue since I got to drink my tea as a hot and cold tea. The fourth time I went, I asked for the peach blossom white tea with boba in a separate cup. The older lady who rung me up didn’t seem to have an issue with me asking that. When I was handed my HOT tea by the Asian guy, the boba was already inside the cup. I mentioned I wanted the boba on the side in a different cup, but he said they don’t do that. So I asked if I could get a cup of ice. He didn’t seem happy and started saying something in Chinese to the older lady while he hesitantly got me the cup of ice. Seems like something changes every time I go there. Overall I think the teas and the boba are good but they need to make things more consistent. I may just go back to Chick’n Bubbly.

Abstract: Bubble and loose-​leaf tea place owned by Sushi Fuku on the corner of Forbes and Oakland. I ordered a small hot mango boba tea.
Pros: OUTLETS. Lots of them! At the window, at least. Spacious and brightly lit. Staff was courteous and helpful. She mentioned free wifi, which I didn’t try out since I was on the go, but I’ll come back! The small boba tea is pretty decently sized-​looks like 16 ounces. Normal sweetness isn’t too sweet-I’d imagine the «less» option means very little sugar at all.
Cons: Seems hard to study with the music playing.
Overall, a nice little place. I prefer this place to Chick ‘n’ Bubbly, which has good food, but charges extra for the tapioca bubbles. Great place to meet a friend, charge your phone and laptop.

Not the best tea in Oakland.
While it does have the option of being highly personalized to the consumer it lacks in quality. There are better bubble teas (and cheaper) in Oakland (like Chick’n Bubbly).
They also offer a limited selection of classic bubble tea flavors! Even Asian restaurants in Pittsburgh offer more diverse flavors than Fuku Tea. If a restaurant specializes in tea, I would hope they they put more effort in creating a myriad of options that you couldn’t get elsewhere. I could go to any restaurant that serves bubble tea and ask them to not add sugar.

Coming from the makers of Pittsburgh’s rising chain star, Sushi Fuku, Fuku Tea and its bubble tea enterprise may not be heaven on earth, but it’s sure darn better than what you can find in the rest of greater Pittsburgh.
Now let’s get to most important part. The taste. The bubbles are good, real good. They’re freshly made, so you get them in your cup warm and perfectly chewy. So many times, I’ve experienced bubble tea that just went down the drain because the bubbles were simply not adequate — too mushy, too undercooked, too unfresh — it’s simply no good. Fuku Tea understands the importance of good tapioca bubbles, and thankfully, they’ve rejustified the gastronomic prowess that PMT has long reigned within Asian food culture.
As for the flavor and quality, the options are endless. Now that is a true bubble tea chain. Want jelly or pudding instead of the ol’ tapioca bubbles? No problem, Fuku Tea’s got it. Want something as crazy as a Plum Milk Tea with Lychee popping boba? Fuku Tea’s got your back. Okay, I have to admit, the flavors could be a hit or miss. I got the Matcha Green Tea with bubbles and it was a delight. My friend got the Passionfruit and it was regrettable. But I’m biased, because with all the options to choose from, the chances that I’ll get a darn good drink are far better than the chances that I’ll even want to order bubble tea from a different PMT establishment. That’s how good Fuku Tea is. Well, if we’re only talking about Pittsburgh at least.
It may not have the best bubble tea to date, but if we’re just talking regionally, this place is worth a trip. If it’s one thing we know for sure, it’s that Fuku Tea is booming in the ‘burgh, and it’s staying here for good.

Pretty clutch bubble tea place in Oakland. The tea wasn’t mind-​blowing, but I appreciated that they are probably one of the few locations in Pittsburgh that lets you choose your sweetness levels and a lot of other factors. Fun place to hang out with friends.

Update! For this who like milkier/​richer milk teas, definitely try the half and half option! Before I tried this I thought that it might give the milk tea a strange taste, since half and half is so distinct. However, it blended in quite well and didn’t have any strange taste/​aftertaste at all! This will probably be my go-​to option for milk teas here from now on.
As for fruit-​flavored tea (without milk), I found them to use quite a bit of syrup for the small size. I got a Passionfruit Green Tea with Lychee Jelly. The passionfruit flavor was pretty strong, and made it quite sweet even though I got ‘light sweetness’. My friend got a large Lychee Black Tea and the syrup taste was not as strong in his. I’m thinking this is probably because he got a large and it was more evenly distributed? The lychee jelly was on point though! Pretty sure most places get the same lychee jelly anyways.

This place is probably the best place to get bubble tea in Pittsburgh, much better than Rose Tea Café, Everyday Noodles, Chengdu Gourmet, etc. So, it is OK. But it is still not perfect. Perplexingly, the staff put hot tapioca pearls straight out of the cooker into my iced beverage, causing it to reach an equilibrium temperature of room temperature. At least the texture of said pearls was good (unlike other bubble teas I’ve tried around Pittsburgh). The taste of the matcha latte I got was okay, but not great and a bit too sweet. Fortunately, the «make your own bubble tea» thing allows you to specify the desired level of sweetness as well as a vast array of other options, so I will give that a try next time.
Update: I tried making my own tea with «light» sweetness. The tea itself was the right sweetness, but the tapioca pearls were still tongue-​numbingly sweet. Oh well, I suppose Americans and most normal human beings like excessively sweet things, so I have no doubt this place will be quite successful.

They really opened it at a prime location so that’s a plus. I can just swing by to grab some tea after class. First of all, I think their pastries are ridiculously overpriced. $ 8 for 6 miniature macaroons isn’t worth it. These aren’t even fresh macaroons; they’re those packaged ones you can buy in bulk. The bubble tea though was adequate, not superb, just adequate. I was disappointed they did NOT have TARO… the essential flavor of any bubble tea establishment! I did appreciate that you can design your own bubble tea and control the sweetness level. I had the pomegranate flavored milk green tea with jelly and mild sweetness. It was $ 4 for a large, which isn’t too bad. However in the future, I would probably go to Chick N Bubbly a block away for better bubble tea.

Today was the last day of their soft opening, and I’m writing this review tonight as a PSA that all beverages will be $ 1.50 tomorrow (¹¹⁄₁₃) for their grand opening.
I was pleasantly surprised by the «freshness» of the tea and its accouterments – that seems like an odd remark about a tea place, but the tea was fresh-​brewed and the tapioca balls were in a slow-​cooker like setup that led me to believe they were homemade. We opted for tapioca and popping strawberry boba in our strawberry black tea, but the tapioca was definitely the star of the show.
As others have said, this place uses REAL MILK which is amazing since it means you can have soy milk (!!!) and also customize the sweetness. I also thought the «light» sweetness was plenty sweet. Prices were reasonable, but service was rather slow – there were no more than 3 – 4 people waiting to be served, but it took nearly 10 minutes, which is unreasonable for bubble tea. I’ll chalk that up to the soft opening and see how they fare in the future!

I really cannot say enough good things about this tea place. I will admit to everyone that I am a bubble tea snob/​addict. Their «soft opening» I went too many times to count.
As a side note if you sign up the for their phone number reward program if you buy 12 teas you get one free! And I know for certain I will be getting a few free teas…
Their tea menu is now hanging up in my cubicle. I have been checking off the tea that I like and making comments on why and the ones that I hate I have also written the same. Is that crazy? (Don’t answer that.)
I love a few things.
1.) They currently do not have a minimum amount to use a credit card. A lot of the other places (hint: Chik n Bubbly) have a $ 5.00 minimum and quite frankly you have to get the larger side and double the bubble sometimes in order to achieve that. The fact that I can slide my card for a $ 3.00 order is great. I do not carry cash on me all the time so this allows me to get my drink on while getting the size and drink I want.
2.) You can get your first order of toppings, FOR FREE. Yes ladies and gentleman your first topping order is free. SERIOUSLY. Other places it is .50 per topping. I mean their toppings are pretty straight forward. They have jelly, popping boba, and of course tapioca. I will say that if you go right when they open they might not have the tapioca ready (happened once). They said that it usually takes an hour and a half to make so they had like 10 minutes more and I couldn’t wait. The tapioca were a bit sweet. The sweetness was a bit different from other places that I’ve had. I would say that if you, like me, do not like super syrupy sweet get the no sweet or the lightly sweetened for your tea.
3.) Their menu. Their menu is seriously awesome. The hot/​cold choices are incredibly varied compared to the other places around Pittsburgh. Their hot tea menu is just really really varied. I cannot wait for a cold Pittsburgh day and for me to order a nice hot cup of tea.
I love this place. They have snacks to munch on and a nice table to sit at if you want to enjoy your tea there. I love the open windows and the light that makes the room so bright.
I look forward to my continued checklist of tea tasting.
So far:
1. Traditional Green Tea: Delish (I keep on getting these… I really should try different things… But they are so good)
2. Plum Iced Tea: Gross
3. Iced Matcha Latte: Eh
Toppings:
1. Lychee Jelly– Good but kinda weird. Sweet.
2. Tapioca — Great, but sweet.

I was very excited when I saw the store a few months ago. Another BUBBLE TEA place
The atmosphere is nice. The décor is very modern and sleek
I got a milk black tea with bubbles (tapioca) with light sweetness (30% @ other bubble tea places)
The bubbles are very chewy and very good, but they’re very sweet. Sweeter than my liking. Also, even with 30% sweetness the drink was too sweet for me. I had to add water to it I think I have a headache from it. But it’s worth it bubble teaa
They’re a sub store to sushifuku btw
I’d definitely come back here.

So happy to see another bubble tea store in Oakland! They serve a variety of teas that are freshly brewed as well as regular bubble tea. Small tip, the bubble tea menu is on the left, and the regular tea menu is on the right. I was a little confused when I placed my order because I thought that we could pick our tea base from the regular ‘tea’ menu (which has way more options.) and the prices differ in both menus.
I ended up getting the green milk tea with bubbles, and it was a little diluted. I also didn’t like the fact that they soak the bubbles in A LOT of syrup. The bubbles themselves were 3 times sweeter than the actual drink which made it a little annoying when you bite into the bubbles.
That being said, whenever I’m craving bubble tea, I’d probably go to another bubble tea store around Oakland. But I’m still looking forward to trying their regular teas! They seem to have a lot of high quality tea so hopefully that won’t disappoint!

This little trickle of new restaurants into Oakland is making me so SO happy. Stack’d and T4U are already solid contenders for my guilty pleasure food, and I can totally add Fuku Tea to my list now.
First impressions: love the bright and spacious interior. The huge windows give you a great view of all the bustle on Forbes while you sit and sip. Also, there’s an outlet under the counter for each seat! Um, hello new study spot.
The staff is very friendly, and when I stopped by, it looked like there was a pretty constant stream of people coming in (mostly Asians haha). During their soft opening, they were giving out little cup samples of their mango passionfruit green tea.
I ordered a small passionfruit black milk tea with tapioca, and it came out to $ 3.41. If you make it during the soft opening, you get another dollar off!
The bubbles are probably some of the best I’ve ever had. A little touch of sweet, with a great chew. YUM.
I ordered the tea itself to be a light level of sweetness, which ended up tasting like a normal level of sweet to me.
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Maybe I’ll step it down another level next time.
I’m really digging this place so far. Plus, more bubble tea options in one area can never be a bad thing right? Definitely coming back here soon!

It was cool that you could choose ingredients and toppings. The people there also so nice and happy to start their first days
I went back there today and they still seems very excited about their business. They are happy to interact and provide good service.
The tea there is also nice. I like both their green tea and black tea though so far I prefered green tea as it has a lighter taste in my opinion. I’m never tried the bubbled teas with milk but I recommened both the mango and the Almond flavor. Don’t forget the tropica as they are what makes bubble tea fun right?

The bubble tea wars are really picking up. Up the street you have Oishii and Sushi Fuku both selling sushi, among other Asian-​type foods, in small modern-​ish sit-​down/​to-​go settings. The former had expanded their business to sell bubble tea with Korean fried chicken next door in the form of Chick’n Bubbly. Now the Taiwanese (I think) owners of Sushi Fuku have this place down the street.
They just had their soft opening, which went okay with just a few quirks to sort out. The interior is clean and bright, definitely more spacious than Chick’n Bubbly. The model for the bubble tea is similar to their competitor, with slightly more freedom for the customer – choose the tea, flavor, milk, sweetness level, and topping (one for free). They also sell fancier brewed loose leaf teas and lattes, like upper-​level bubble tea places in California.
I went for the iced passionfruit green tea with tapioca and light sweetness. Everything was pretty much on point. Tea was brewed nicely and came out a tad foamy on top, so not too watery. The boba was soft and chewy, probably some of the best I’ve had. The flavoring was good too, although I personally could’ve gone even less sweet than what they gave. Still, not bad for a soft opening and I think a small step up above Chick’n Bubbly at this point. Current prices are a bit cheaper as well!