Chrysanthemum milk tea with chrysanthemum pearls ($3.70)!
Sunday bubble tea craving — chrysanthemum milk tea with chrysanthemum pearls $3.70. The floral-tea variant on the standard bubble tea format after 2 weeks of illness.
Sunday bubble tea fix with BB — chrysanthemum milk tea with chrysanthemum pearls at $3.70. The first bubble tea craving fix after 2 weeks of recovery from illness.
We ordered:
- Chrysanthemum milk tea with chrysanthemum pearls — $3.70
Chrysanthemum tea is the traditional Chinese herbal tea brewed from dried chrysanthemum flowers. The flavour profile leans floral-sweet with the cooling property that Chinese medicine traditionally associates with the flower. The base tea is often combined with rock sugar and sometimes goji berries for the traditional Chinese chrysanthemum tea format.
The bubble tea adaptation puts the chrysanthemum tea base under fresh milk with the chrysanthemum-flavoured pearls. Different from the standard black-tea or green-tea base, the chrysanthemum gives the drink a distinctly floral aroma that’s lighter and cleaner than the malt-heavy black tea.
The chrysanthemum pearls were the upgrade. Instead of the standard tapioca pearls, these were chrysanthemum-flavoured pearls — usually made by incorporating chrysanthemum syrup or tea into the tapioca-starch dough. The pearls have the proper QQ chewy texture but with the additional chrysanthemum flavour that complements the tea base.
The milk component balanced the chrysanthemum tea. Fresh milk poured over the brewed tea, sweetener at the standard 50% level, ice packed to fill the cup. The milk softens the slight bitterness of the chrysanthemum and provides the creamy mouthfeel that pure tea doesn’t have.
The bubble tea craving fix is the proper marker that you’ve recovered from illness. Cold drinks during sickness are off-limits in the traditional Chinese medicine framework, so the first cold bubble tea after the recovery period is the small celebratory moment.
At $3.70 this is fair specialty bubble tea pricing for the chrysanthemum variant. The standard milk tea at the same chain runs $3-3.50; the chrysanthemum variant adds a small premium for the floral-tea ingredient.
Bubble tea categories have expanded well beyond the original pearl milk tea format. The chrysanthemum variant fits the traditional-Chinese-flavour profile that some chains have pushed in recent years.
Overall: 4.4 / 5. 😋👍🏼 Solid chrysanthemum bubble tea — would re-order.
