Easy Way Tea

Love this place and find myself walking up here when I’m in Glasgow, so I can grab a bubble tea!
Love the selection, the friendly family vibe and the care and time afforded to making your drink.
Don’t be put off by the slightly ramshackle appearance, to me it just adds to the charm.

I have to say this was the most unexpected weirdest good experience I’ve had in a while. I was only popping along to the Savoy Centre to check out the Kilt Shop, which ended up being closed.
I forgot all about here, as I had bookmarked a while ago. I had heard rave reviews about Bubble Tea down in London and I wanted to see what all the fuss was about. I can’t believe we actually have one in Glasgow.
It’s take away only so all the menus are outside the shop and both in English and in a Chinese language. There is so much choice it’s just a list after list of options. So after opting for the Strawberry Pearl Milk Tea with ice, the lady did her magic. It’s a tea made with a milk or cream with a flavour of your choice containing the small black tapioca balls which nestle at the bottle of the plastic cup. This is were you get the pearls from, it’s all in them special balls.
So shaken, sealed and with a lovely big pink straw for me, I was given my first Bubble Tea. The straw is so wide, just enough for you to suck up the balls. Oooft, so much could be said here but keeping it pearly clean. Hehe!
It’s such a weird sensation and it’s like a wee surprise in your mouth. Steady! They are soft, chewy and taste lovely. My strawberry flavour was delicious, my man got coconut, also very tasty.
If you haven’t been it’s definitely worth departing 3 of your British pounds for something unique with a unusual taste sensation.

I like the origin taste of pearl milk tea, very traditional~
I like the couple who make the milk tea, they are nice and warm-​hearted. I have no idea whether this taste is suitable for westerners since I rarely see local ppl there

Thank you Unilocal,I didn’t know there was anywhere to get Bubble Tea in Glasgow and this came up in some random searching yesterday. I had to visit today! Its round the back on the bottom floor of the Savoy Centre.
Other reviewers have described this place much better than me but I urge everyone to give it a visit, the menu can be quite daunting but the lovely lady behind the counter was happy to give me recommendations.
Only £3 for a big cup, whatever drink you chose it’s a lovely alternative to a coffee or fizzy juice.

Easy Way Tea I have found you! I had no idea somewhere like easy way tea existed. I have a memory, a distant memory of trying this light and strange green tea drink when I was in Canada skiing. Never again did I think that I would find anything like it again, I had out those tapioca balls known in Canada as ‘bubbles’ being me and gotten back to the life of smoothies and fruit juice.
Low and behold! Easy Way Tea exists in the strangest of places, the Savoy Centre! There has never ever been any reason for me to go i to the Savoy Centre before in my life, but here it was! And no one knows about it? How can this be, these drinks really are a sensation.
My first visit I had the Green apple flavoured green tea with the ‘bubbles’, oh that reminds me of holidays! It was as good as the Canadian bubble tea as they called it.
I think this sort of thing must be very popular in Taiwan, where I think it originated, because I recognised some of the contraptions which squeeze the bubbles into my drink. So refreshing and light, not like a smoothie at all, more like iced tea with little balls in it to suck up through a huge straw.

I have only visited The Savoy Centre a few times, twice to use the toilet facilities and once to buy dog biscuits so i can’t say i’ve shopped for pleasure there. It was on one of these powder room visits that i came across Easy Way Tea, a little tea stall situated between the kitsch and rather strange mish mash of shops the mall houses.
I stood and looked at the menu for a while, quite surprised to find this little gem in the centre, and a man from the mobile phone repair shop next door came out and offered his advice on which teas to sample. The Chinese influence on the Savoy is growing, so i assume that a few of the same family members own quite a lot of the oriental inspired shops there.
Upon a quick read at the (multiple) menus on the wall, Easy Tea started in Taiwan in 1992, selling the Taiwanese drink Pearl Milk tea, which the stall sells too. Infact it is the speciality drink here, compiled of iced tea, cream or milk and tapioca balls, hence the name ‘pearl’ tea. You can top your tea of choice with coconut jelly, or the delicious sounding Green Tea jelly, which i thought was a really cool and quirky touch.
The aforementioned man was still coaxing me to try some, getting his assistant behind the counter to let me smell the different flavours, and i finally opted for a Passionfruit blended ice tea. There were plenty of other flavours to choose from and different varieties of teas including Milk Tea, Straight tea and Relish teas. The lady made it for me using a combination of machines and manual pouring and mixing, all very interesting to watch, and then slid it into a contraption which sealed a pierceable lid onto it. Wow! It was really cool to watch it being made.
The tea itself was yummy, and pretty cheap for the massive cup i got at 2.50. I had to throw some away in the end, there was just too much of it!
I would definetly go back for more when i’m up that way, it was refreshing and interesting and something really different for the city centre. Finally a reason to go to The Savoy Centre other than the Loos!