Jastea

I always order milk tea with boba where ever I go. But not a lot of places make it right. I love their milk tea from here, and their boba is perfectly sweet and has a good texture.

I don’t know where the space for boba came from after having a big meal at Kickin’ Crab with my amazing boyfriend, but I found this little spot just before leaving the parking lot. It was pretty late so there was plenty of parking as we got to park directly in front.
As we mozied our way in we were immediately helped by this lovely little Asian lady who was there to help a first timer like myself. The menu itself was a bit extensive so I guess my inexperience at this place showed and she offered to give me some options. While she was doing that, my boyfriend was sniffing their jars of tea leaves and we both agreed the peach oolong had a nice scent to it right when the cashier mentioned that the peach oolong milk tea was one of their favorites as well. I opted for that and sadly she informed me they were out of regular boba but they had something similar for me to try. I got a free sample of it and it looked like regular boba but much chewier. I didn’t add it to my drink, though, because I wasn’t a total fan of it.
The drink came out pretty fast and I liked the design of their cups. Not a totally important factor to this review, but most boba places just use a plain cup so this was a nice surprise. And the drink was pretty good, too. The peach oolong flavor was strong and was even good the next day when I didn’t finish. Hehe.
Overall, probably gonna come again when I’m in the area. Just wish they had some snack options to go with their drinks.

This has got to be one of my go to places for milk tea. I’ve been coming here since it opened and I’m always satisfied with my drinks and service. Everyone is super friendly and very personable. Tonight they even remembered my drink I used to order a while back haha! Hope this place continues to get good business!

The workers are very nice and have offered samples to us. They are attentive and cut the lid on my hot drink to fit the boba straw. The same guy seems to be working everytime we go. He makes sure you know your options and gets your order right. I like the less sweet and less ice options! We usually order almond milk tea with pearls. Price is the going rate for boba, and the boba is made fresh every 4 hours! They have a lot of seating and seems like a lot of regulars — one guy came in and said he came in everyday! Parking may be tough since the lot can be limited.
They are raffling the big teddy bear soon!

I used to really like Jastea but now I feel like it’s a solid 2.5 stars. I used to come here all the time for the peach oolong and loved it. After my last visit, I think the store declined significantly. The staff aren’t as fast as they used to be and they ran out of boba…
I order the lychee milk tea this time and I had a hard time finishing it because it didn’t taste anything like lychee. PLUS, their regular sweetness is wayyy too sweet.
I used to think Jastea’s décor was really cute and cozy, but now I’m starting to think it looks… Cheap? They have paper covering their menu of discontinued items which I find sort of tacky. Most boba shops don’t have this problem because they have tv monitors as their menu. In addition to that, the store was filled with decorations they probably found from the dollar store.
I probably won’t be coming back unless I’m craving a boba fix after kickin crab.

I really liked Jastea because the staff were super nice. They offered recommendations and samples of their best sellers. I ended up getting the Earl grey milk tea and thought it was great. Fresh and not at all powdery. I would come back again.

This milk tea spot boasts about their fresh tea! I tried the assam black tea with grass jelly @ 50% sweetness. I loved that they offered differed kinds of black tea including oolong, osmanthus and assam. The worker here was super friendly. Right now they have a giant cute teddy bear inside that you can take pictures with. There’s a parking lot here but it gets pretty tight. They have unique flavors like English toffee that I haven’t seen @ any other milk tea spot. There are spots to chill @ inside but it isn’t as cozy as other milk tea spots. They sell pandan green waffles + macaron ice cream sandwiches too but I haven’t tried them yet.

There are a lot of options and it is pretty inexpensive. The music is too loud sometimes but the staff have no problem adjusting it when you ask politely. Place is rather roomy but seats aren’t super comfortable.
The ice cream macaroons are really expensive but then again they are macaroons.
Good place to drop by for a quick milk tea drink when you aren’t feeling the more known places.

I find myself always perusing the menu here just because they have so many options.
I’m not usually around this area for milk tea, but when I am, it’s after pickin’ up a lil sumn’ sumn’ from the Kickin’ Crab next door. They have a sizable selection of drink toppings here, not to mention the almost 10-​ish different types of tea I should probably have some knowledge of given my age, but… is Early Grey the name of the tea or the guy/​company that makes the tea?
Anyway! I come across a lot of youngsters using up the free wi-​fi here; it must be that good or they have no better place to go bc they can’t drive yet. It’s a pretty spacious place; big enough for students to bring their laptops and sip on their drinks. This is the place that introduced me to the whole agar (clear) pearl and black pearl combo. It’s an odd mix, but it goes great with any of your fruit-​flavored tea of choice.
Tastes a lot more authentic than most places with «tea» in the name. Get recommendations/​samples of the day from the staff, they’re all friendly peeps.

I think the drinks weren’t as good as I thought they would be. They were also expensive considering most boba places cost less than $ 4. They do have a BOGO deal on hot drinks and iced milk, but they iced milk looked way too sweet so I settled for a hazelnut Ceylon black tea with 25% sweetness level. It tasted alright and it tastes sweeter than I wanted. My brothers got a hot taro milk tea and a hot almond milk tea. They had forgotten to ask for level of sweetness and my brother said that his almond milk tea was too sweet. I don’t know if I would come back because the quality of tea isn’t the best I’ve had and it costs more than other boba places I’ve been to.

Mediocre tea and toppings. I can’t say much else. Sometimes they have good recipe but that’s about it.
Stop settling for less! Go get real milk tea!

It’s entirely so-​so green teas and grass jelly and whatnot. A few places to stand, a few to sit, it’s not too bad.
Nice addition to a pretty small strip mall, but it’s all very basic.
Service is pretty solid tho, and that counts for a lot.

Swung by here with a friend after playing badminton a while back because she told me I had to try the ice cream macaron sandwiches. I’ve been seeing these little treats all over various social networks, but I wasn’t sure where I could find one, so the main reason why I came was to grab one. But of course, I’m addicted to milk tea, so I’m always down to give a new place shot. After looking at the menu and contemplating, I decided I’d go for an oolong milk tea and a thai tea macaron. I think I arrived around 9 or so, and the place closes at 10, so it wasn’t too crowded. There was only one other table there aside from mine.
Drinks came out within minutes, and then one of the employees came out to open their freezer to hand us our ice cream macarons. Usually ice cream macarons are rock hard, so I decided to let it sit for a few minutes to thaw out and turned to my drink. I can’t quite put my finger on it, but something was kind of off in my drink. Somehow it felt like the oolong flavor was there, but at the same time it didn’t taste very tea like. It was watery yet oolong-​y at the same time. My friend got a green milk tea and ube ice cream macaron as well. She said her drink was fine, and she’d been here several times, so maybe I just chose the wrong drink? I took a bite out of both ice cream macarons, and they were pretty good. I think the ube was actually better than my thai tea one because I sort of wished the thai tea one had a stronger flavor.
If this same friend asked me to come back, I probably would for the ice cream macaron, as I don’t really know where else it is currently sold, but I might pass on the drinks.

I’ve been wanting to try this place for a long time & finally made it today! Yayyyy! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I visited Jastea along with the hubby during their last hour of the day around 9.10ish, trust me it was super busy like a day time, attendants «Kyanee» & «Vinh» still managed the crowd efficiently. Both pleasantly welcomed us & I was very pleased with their friendly, prompt, attentive, helpful & (…what not??) excellent service!
STAFF
The moment we entered and started glancing their menu thinking what to choose, Kyanee & Vinh began offering their tea samples, asking our preferences, which was a complete surprise for me to note their quick judgement about us that we are their first-​time customers. Way cool! Also, what impressed me more was their non tiring attitude towards serving us more & more samples as and when we asked for (Tried 3 different tea flavors & 2 toppings for each of us). Really appreciate it!
ABOUT THE LOCATION & TEA ROOM
Jastea is located at Cropley Center (small complex) with private parking lot (getting a good Parking might get tricky during busy hours). The tea room is very neat, looks new with comfortable seating area (both high chairs & cushioned) and few interesting games you can engage too (Connect 4, two player game, good & gripping) !!
OUR CHOICES
You are welcomed to custom make your own tea from their menu.
1. English Toffee Tea with Milk & Black Sugar Pearls Topping ($ 3.75 + $ 0.50) — Too good & both of us equally felt it’s THE BEST from their list.
2. Osmanthus Oolong Tea, again with Milk & Black Sugar Pearls Topping (Same price, $ 3.75 + $ 0.50) — My choice, tasted DIFFERENT YET GREAT (more like flavored jasmine tea).
(They offered us Rose Black Tea with Snowfall Milk Foam as an extra sampler towards the end of our stay, apart from our initial try outs. Super Likes! A-​Must item in my next visit!!)
PRICE
Pricing was same as big chains like Starbucks or Peets or any others but here, you get Fantastic value for money!
OVERALL
It’s a cool-​cute place to hangout with your friends/​family. Enticing Drinks, Wonderful Service, Reasonable pricing. I’d happily come back again to try more! HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!

Great service. Milk Tea was delicious. I asked for half sweet and it was ACTUALLY HALF SWEET! (Take note Quickly)
Great flavors. The store is clean. Menu is simple. Great atmosphere. Good music. No cons. This place is solid.

Before today, I would have given 5 stars.
I’ve been here on a few occasions.
The good:
Decent teas.
Decent boba.
They have white boba.
They have macaron ice cream sandwiches.
They have Hawaiian Mochi.
They have ample seating.
They have a clean bathroom.
Great panda an waffle with real coconut.
The bad:
The service!
They didn’t have milk foam today. While debating a $ 0.50 refund, the two new-​ish employees didn’t really know what to do. I wanted the $ 0.50 credited toward a waffle. Then the owner tried to give me a $ 0.40 discount off a waffle instead. (Oh, did I mention AFTER I had to remind the new employee to get my ice cream sandwich because her text life was extremely demanding)(I waited 10mins and she was oblivious).
Basically fail after fail after fail.
In summary:
My Thai tea macaron, waffle, and tea were all very sweet (haha like too much sugar!!!), but this experience left me feeling sour about this business.

Jastea is located in the plaza with the Kickin Crab and Baskin Robins. I decided to come here since it’s the closest to where I am, but I found that it came a little short to my expectations.
You can customize your own drink here, or go with a standard drink. The first time I came here I tried a lychee icy smoothie. Whenever I get an icy, I’m always hoping that the ice is crushed completely so it’s cold and smooth. The lychee flavor was spot on, but the texture was what turned me off. There were too many ice chunks that I feared swallowing each mouthful would be difficult unless you wanted to wait for the ice to melt or take the time to bite them down.
The next time I went here I tried the dark roast oolong milk tea with pearls. The tea flavor was great although a little on the sweet side. The problem with this drink was that they fill the cups half way with big chunks of ice. I was so surprised as to how little there was to this drink. Furthermore, the pearls are definitely not fresh. They are chewy but not soft. They feel hard and dried out. So for me, the pearls did not win me over at all.
If I was desperate for some milk tea, I would probably end up coming here because of how close it is. But if I want high quality milk tea, I would probably go out of my way to drive a little further.
They recently started selling ice cream mochi and macaron ice cream sandwiches here. The ice cream sandwiches are huge compared to what I have seen! If you are familiar with the ones from Boiling Point, these are 2 – 3 times bigger. They actually look pretty good so I may want to try one in the future!

It was just too darn hot today and I needed some serious heat quencher that goes by the dessert name of «ice cream macaroons». Lord knows I have a cough but the craving is so intense that I just have to get some somewhere today or I would have trouble sleeping through the night.
So I went to Unilocal to search for places selling these delectable dessert. I found several shops that sell macaroons within my area and I notice that Maven’s creamery ice cream macaroons seems to be the concession brand most dessert shops sold. I browsed more to find a convenient place to go get these little darlings and I found them at Jastea.
The place is next to Kickin Crab so we didnt have a hard time looking for it. The place has a few tables on it and customers doing work on their laptops when we arrived, we were greeted by very nice staff and the place is well kept. Best of all is that they accept credit cards, yay!
They have several flavors available in their freezer and selecting 3 out of 8 was a difficult feat! I wan’t all of them! However my meager budget tells me that $ 4.75 for each macaroons is in between reasonable enough to «Are– you-​sure-​you-​need-​this-​before-​we-​spend-​money-​on-​it» kind of self debate. Me, myself and I then decided to just get 3 or else the next couple of days would be tight (Yes, this is realness here!)
Anyway we got the cookies and cream, stawberry nutella, and double chocolate. These were big as a toddler’s fist and hard as a rock. The guys behind the counter said to wait for a couple of minutes for it to thaw before eating it which is fine cause we had to get going for some quick errands so we had them to-​go.
Taste: the ice cream part is good and creamy, my strawberry nutella did not disappoint and my daughter loved her cookies and cream however the macaroons became chewy and a bit difficult to bite cause the whole thing is just too thick.
Nonetheless…a total YUM!

I have the best dark roasted oolong milk tea here. Well balanced between sweetness and the hint of roasted, earthy oolong tea. Pearls have great texture, chewy yet soft and sweet. Other milk teas/​teas I had tasted freshly brewed and all around good.
Jastea also stands out with excellent customer service. Staffs care and greet and usually offer samples. Ask if you have questions because they’ll explain everything that you want to know and will accommodate your requests.

Big sis and I were being fat and decided to get milktea. My first time here and disappointed. Why?
Ordered Quarter sweet milktea with black tea. Asked tea to be strong. What I get? Watered down $ 4. Tasted no tea or milk and I hope they didn’t use half and half.
What was good was that the girl who rang us up was nice. Only large size and they take card and that 5 star thing. Oh yes, they sell bubbie’s mochi ice cream. Bubbie’s is way better than that mikawaya stuff btw. Mango star jelly was a bit hard, but I was ok with it. Overall, not cool. They have a waffle maker for those delicious vietnamese waffles, but it’s not on the menu. A Unilocaler stated it’s $ 2 and bigger than avrg size (no sexual ref). Must try their waffles…