YoYo! Fresh Tea Bar

Milk bubble tea is my childhood drinks. It is the same kind of addictive drug that I can’t get rid of until now. So when I come to Amsterdam, I was dying craving for this and luckily I found one in China town.
This shop is well-​decorated. The staffs are great and cheerful. And last but not least, the milk bubble tea is heavenly delicious (a bit too sweet for me but anw) and I really recommend everyone to try :)

First time I came here, I didn’t like their house black tea, next time I came here I got hot taro tea with boba and it’s delicious. Staff is very friendly and super comfortable seating

I love this little shop! Their bubble teas are yummy (although I feel the menu is a little limited) and they have such cool stuff for sale in their shop! My daughter loves the foamy horsie chairs! And there is a cute little nook to enjoy your tea if it’s raining outside.

After traveling around Europe for a month and trying various bubble tea around to satisfy my cravings, I am glad to have found YoYo! It is one of the best bubble I’ve tried in Europe. — green jasmine milk tea!

Yo! So some of the best bubble tea in Europe is found in the red light district of Amsterdam. I came here after attending a sex show, I guess I was trying to balance out my sin by doing something innocent? It doesn’t really matter.
The green milk tea was impressively fresh and they take credit card!

Super bonne surprise ! On s’est rafraichis chez YOYo et on regrette pas. Le thé glacé était excellent et le petit coin salon est très agréable. Un moment agréable passé en famille. Je le conseil sans problème.

This was avery refreshing bubble tea. I chose not to have one based on caffeine and the soy lychee tea with tapioca was great!

Bubble tea!!!
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Bubble tea!!!
Bubble tea!!! Its the only way i can describe this place … U like a good bubble tea with different flavors to choose you are on the right place.
I mean the people here are specialist. On top of everything else they have the weirdest things you can buy from Asia. and by weird i mean really cool and amazing.
A definite suggestion if you are visiting AMS and a must if you are in the neighborhood

Yo yo yo!!!
Special ni hao shout out to all my dim sum violinist DDR Asian peeps! WOOT WOOT!
Now… I will preface this by saying, I think for bubble tea, it’s average.
SOLLY!!!
So why four stars you ask? Is my abacus broken???
What I DO like about this place is that although for me it’s just average bubble tea, it’s by far the best you’ll find the Netherlands! Not only the quality but the flavors. If an average Asian walks into a bubble tea place, they expect to find flavors like taro, milk tea, jackfruit, papaya, coconut with mixed with pearls or grass jelly. Except for the latter, this place has it! So big peace sign for that!
Next is the place itself. You can sit down on cute little Asian furniture not designed with Dutch people in mind or shop for weird-​unneeded-​yet-​you-​want-​it Asian knickknacks as you what for your Bubble tea to complete.
So if math is your thing ((Place + Shopping + Flavors) — BT)^2 =
Sank you!

After we stuffed our faces from Little Saigon, across the street, my husband was still craving boba. We headed over to Yoyo and this was the first boba place we went to since arriving in Amsterdam so I can’t really compare it to anything else here. The shop sells a random assortment of kawaii things and there’s a little lofty area where you can sit and hang out with friends. We had the milk tea with boba. The boba was a little less chewy than I would’ve like and the milk tea was OK, but we will definitely come back again and try the other drinks. They serve hot and cold drinks and have an assortment of toppings. I believe it was € 3,50 for a medium sized drink.
Oh how I miss Boba from SF (Boba Guys to be exact)!

This is my favorite bubble tea place in Amsterdam and here’s why:
Options! Lots and lots of options! I love my options! And the young people who work here are not rigid with the rules but are instead very accommodating!
I don’t like candy or anything like that so what am I doing at a fruity bubble tea place, you say? Ah~ but that’s because I love dairy (even though I’m ironically lactose intolerant, but who cares?! Just load up on Lactaze Enzyme supplements) and I love… LOVE anything coconut. A-​N-​Y-​T-​H-​I-​N-​G…
My favorite bubble tea here is the coconut milk tea without sugar and with taro or tapioca balls, ergh. «bubbles». Nice chewy balls. erg, «bubbles», with a still sweet coconut milk (tea?). Both the milk and coconut come in powder form before it’s added to your tea so I’m sure there are some refined sugars in there but hey… it’s a guilty pleasure! Because it’s still sweet without sugar, I have it without sugar but like I said, they are very accommodating so just tell them how sweet you want your tea, any tea. Half sugar? No sugar? More sugar!!! (don’t do that though… seriously…)
The shop itself is very cute and they have lots of different things for sale. Typical Asian stuff, mostly from Hong Kong. They have these comic horsey stool thingies lined with felt where you can sit on. just check the photos. There’s some seating room and it’s all good and «gezellig».
If you like bubble tea, this is the place to be.

Prior to moving here, I did not understand why my Dutch friends would go crazy whenever they saw a shop that sold bubble tea — which in NYC was a lot, practically every Chinese bakery has it. After suffering through a 6 month drought and some of the worst bubble tea I have ever tasted, I finally found Yoyo!
This is GOOD bubble tea, and they have a great selection of drinks. Their milk tea is spot-​on and everything is prepared the way it should be (machine shaker and sealer). They have a good selection of toppings, including popping bobas which always confuse me. Basically they’re like little spheres filled with juice and when you bite into them there is a mini flavor explosion.
Yoyo is the BEST place to get bubble tea in the Netherlands. I hope this is a sign of more yummy bubble tea places opening up.
They also serve frozen yogurt and sell a variety of cool/​cute things.
Atmosphere: ⁴⁄₅
There isn’t really any seating inside the bubble tea bar, though if it is nice you can sit on the 2 benches outside.
Price: ⁴⁄₅
Bubble tea is € 3 euros for a small and € 3,50 for a medium which is standard pricing.

I wouldn’t bother with other places for bubble tea than here. My expectations for bubble tea reached high after my trip in Singapore and Malaysia. I consumed at least one Gong Cha bubble tea during my trip. Seriously. This place is the closest thing I can get to a good bubble tea in Holland.
What sets this bubble tea place apart from others in The Netherlands is not only the interior with its weird, random gadgets but the type of tea they use. I can’t speak for other flavors but the classic milk tea bubble tea here is the bombdiggity. The milk is not overpowering the strong and distinct flavor of the black tea. Other places fail to meet the balance of that. I was filled with horror and shock when I was at a different bubble tea tent and I saw that they were using Pickwick’s English tea… Pickwick!!! As I have imagined, that bubble tea was not even close to mediocre. Let alone did it deserve to be called bubble tea.
There seems to be some sort of science behind making good tapioca bubbles. I like how the tapioca bubbles here is firm and not too squishy and soft. Other bubble tea tents that I have tried in Holland were either too hard or too soft. Also there was a bland taste to the tapioca bubbles.
Anyway, they also do less sugar if you are interesting in cutting back. Writing this review is making me crave bubble tea.

Now, I’m still in the early stages of my relationship with bubble tea. Since my first several months ago, merely catching sight of the words ‘bubble’ and ‘tea’ would send me into a deep, deep craving. So sweet, so tasty, so addictive! — The boba had got me and it had got me good.
Now imagine the delight of finding a bubble tea bar in Amsterdam. Hello, Yoyo! With all kinds of cute things on offer, it’s a shop which also sells fresh bubble tea! Yay! Headed straight for the bar and with the biggest grin, I ordered a large strawberry milk tea with tapioca boba. I’d only ever tried popping boba before but after the friendly advice that tapioca boba are just ‘chewy, sweet bubbles,’ I was tempted to pop my tapioca cherry once and for all.
Mmm mmm mmm! Now, I’ll admit that, for me, flavoured popping boba is the bomb and tapioca comes second but that’s just my preference and it was nice to try something different! The strawberry milk tea itself was frothy (I noticed it was shaken by a machine!) and HUGE! For € 3.50, it’s so worth getting large. So very generous. — Anything to prolong the bubble tea experience!
Friendly staff and quirky surroundings made Yoyo an amazing find. Whilst Tempo Tea in my hometown of Glasgow will probably always hold the key to my boba heart, (my first and best bubble tea!) Yoyo comes a close second thus far. Tasty stuff!

Many different flavours and toppings! Nice for take-​away, not so much for sitting-​in. Cute small store inside with cool gadgets.

Yoyo is a new fresh tea bar (bubble tea) at the Zeedijk. This place looks so colourful and cute! They also sell lot’s of Asian goodies inside, so the place is like decorated in cute Asian gadgets and stuff that is also for sale. Very cute. There are little tables inside and you can also sit on the weird animals haha. (see photos to understand)
The big pink Yoyo logo inside and the menu also look very nice. You can see all the different choices and the steps in creating your own personal bubble drink! But they do not only have drinks, they also have frozen yoghurt! With several kinds of toppings. And the most interesting part; green tea frozen yoghurt! Today I was thirsty so I did not try this but I have to try it next time. I went which the Peach green tea with strawberry popping boba. I had a small which costs you 3 euros (medium is 3,50). The taste was very good although I think there were not enough boba in the drink. Still, it was a nice tea and I will come back, also to try the green tea frozen yoghurt!