Houcailei is a bubble tea cafe that we frequent every once in a while. We usually go to the Burnaby location but this time we visited their Richmond location. We ordered our drinks for pick up and received it in this nice 10 year anniversary bag.
Peach tea and jelly
This peach tea and jelly drink was one that interested me because I’ve seen it on their chalkboard stand for a while now. The peach tea had an artificial tea flavour to it which was disappointing. It was almost perfume-like so I wasn’t a fan. I prefer the one from Suntea more. It also came with clear jelly that were cube shaped. I wasn’t a fan of the jelly because it had a strange firm texture to it.
Pineapple tea with jelly
The other drink that we got was the pineapple tea. We get pineapple tea quite often and love the one from Yi Fang so we wanted to see how this one fared. I wasn’t a fan of it because similar to the peach tea, there was a strong artificial taste to it. Grayson liked it though. The strange part about this drink was that even though it also had jelly in it, it was a different type of jelly! It was a softer jelly that was easily drinkable unlike the one in the peach tea. How peculiar…
I think Grayson and I will stick to the plain tea or milk teas from Houcailei because their fruit teas were not our cup of tea.