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    4.4 (10 reviews)
    Open 10:30 am - 9:00 pm

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    Brown Sugar Black Tea with Boba
    Andrea A.

    The Durham Food Hall MilkLab is reliable & conveniently located! I've been here a couple of times and am always satisfied. This time, I got the Brown Sugar Black Tea with Boba, which was classic (good amount of sweetness, chew on the tapioca balls, and tea flavor). I actually went because MilkLab emailed me a $5 coupon for my birthday, which was so nice, so definitely sign up for their rewards club! In the past, I've gotten the Banana Fresh Milk here, which was also tasty. Ambiance is good (the food hall has lots of other options as well so definitely explore for accompaniments) and service is fast. Finding free parking is a little challenging, so you may have to drive around a little bit to find a spot or pay for parking. 8/10 would recommend!

    Brown Sugar Milk Tea with Boba
    JJ C.

    Atmosphere: Milklab is finally in downtown Durham! A great addition to the bustling Durham Food Hall. Service: Our drinks have been served quickly even during busy hours. Food: We usually order the Brown Sugar Milk Tea with Boba. The boba is fresh and chewy, and the brown sugar has a good balance of sweetness and toastiness. Though the drinks at this location are decent, we've found that they haven't been as consistent in quality as their other locations. We've also had issues several times with them running out of boba later in the night. Overall: We enjoy the convenience of this new Milklab location, but we find ourselves heading to Milklab's South Durham location more often for a better, consistent experience. We're hoping that once this location becomes more established, we can rely on them for our boba cravings.

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    Miiguel D.

    Great mango slushy drink. Not too sweet and great packaging. Definitely stopping by here on my way out the mall to try out other flavors.

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    I love the tea here. The tea is thick and you can feel the milk in it. The boba is chewy . I love their cheese foam.

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    Moge Tee - Durham

    Moge Tee - Durham

    3.9(104 reviews)
    1.3 mi
    $$

    Haven't been to this location yet specifically but I do know if it's like the Hillsborough st one,…read more it'll be amazing

    We've been to this Moge Tee location in Durham a couple times and it was good both times. We've…read morebeen to the location in Raleigh and it was good too: https://www.yelp.com/biz/moge-tee-raleigh-raleigh So far, this seems like a solid bubble tea brand. At this location, I tried the Rose Bubble Milk Tea (half sugar, large size, $6.25) and the Mango Tea Slush (half sugar, $6.25). The Rose Bubble Milk Tea was available in medium (500 mL, $5.25) and large (700 mL). I believe the Mango Tea Slush was available in large size only. Prices were before tip and tax. Both drinks were well made, good quality, and delicious. The Fresh Rose Bubble Milk Tea had a nice balance of tea, milk, and boba flavor. The boba was fresh and had appetizing consistency. The Mango Tea Slush was made with real mango. Like other bubble tea shops with fruit teas, Moge Tee had prefilled cups with mango ready to go. Upon ordering, they added ingredients to the mango and blended everything together. The drink was icy cold, refreshing, and tasty. Again, good quality. Sweet, but not too sweet. Moge Tee has a good selection of drinks. Aside from the aforementioned bubble milk and fruit teas, they have cheese foam drinks, yogurt fruit tea, milk swirl drinks (e.g., brown sugar boba), uji matcha (highest-grade matcha), tofu pudding drinks, and more. Service has been fine. The first time, we ordered with an employee at the counter. The second time, there was a self-serve kiosk off to the side with a touchpad. Overall, Moge Tee is one of the better bubble tea chains we've tried so far in the Triangle. There's also a location on Franklin Street in Chapel Hill. This location is on 9th St in Old West Durham, near Duke East Campus. It opened in February 2021. For both of our visits, we parked on the street for free. It's two-hour parking, 8am-6pm.

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    Milk Lab - Durham - - Rose Oolong Milk Tea

    Milk Lab - Durham

    4.5(170 reviews)
    6.7 mi
    $$

    This place is amazing! I have visited most countries in Asia for reference and live on the West…read moreCoast. So I have a fair amount of boba tea experience. The service is efficient and precise. The ambiance is calm and relaxing with a dent of brown sugar. The ceremonial grade Uji Matcha was the best that I've had outside of Kyoto, hands-down. Additionally, the milk foam on top is perfection, and not too sweet, not too salty, just right. All of the other teeth that I tried were good whether it was fruit tea or green tea. I will definitely return for any of their drinks.l whenever in town.

    MILKLAB is a small dessert and tea chain around the Research Triangle Park. They are known for…read moretheir rolled ice cream and boba. The inside was rather spacious and there were some seats in the back for people to do work or study. I found the service to be timely on the day I went. I got the Rainbow Fresh Fruit Tea. It tasted like the name: very fruity with some passionfruit jelly at the bottom. I did get the drink at 70% sweetness, but it tasted like 100% sweetness. Next time, I would get 50% sweetness or less because it was too sweet for me. I did not get the rolled ice cream here, but I am sure it would have tasted amazing as I have gotten it at another location before. Overall, a solid spot for desserts and drinks.

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    Milk Lab - Durham - Large Thai Milk Tea with mini boba Rolled Kimochi Ice-cream

    Large Thai Milk Tea with mini boba Rolled Kimochi Ice-cream

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    Milk Lab - Durham - Brown Sugar Black Milk Tea, Ceylon Black Milk Cap Tea

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    Li Ming's Global Mart - Kong Xin Cai (Ong Choy, Water Spinach). $3.99/lb. Basil. $2.66. Peeled Garlic. $3.99. Lime. 2 for $1.58.

    Li Ming's Global Mart

    3.9(211 reviews)
    4.2 mi
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    | Overview +…read moreConvenient grocery for Asian products + Seafood section is reliable and prices are generally cheaper than H-Mart + Larger area than Grand Asia Market in Raleigh + Affordable Chinese food & noodle dishes from its food concession + Bakery inside is nice - Not the best prices for Kimchi - Lacking Korean favorites and fresh foods that H-Mart offers - Unfriendly customer service - Dining area is often not clean - Some Chinese frozen & canned products are questionable. - Food concession lacks the variety we enjoy in H-Mart and Grand Asia | Recommended Filipino snacks: Clover chips (Cheese flavor) and Nagaraya (Garlic flavor) cracker nuts. Sometimes, these are not available, however. | Full Review My girl & I have been here multiple times to buy ingredients for Asian dishes. We often get fresh salmon and shrimps from the seafood section, and we appreciate how seafood here are generallt cheaper compared to H-Mart in Cary. However, H-Mart is still more reliable overall when it comes to other products like kimchi, Korean side dishes, marinated meats, and various other Asian products. Unlike H-Mart's Korean focus, Li Ming's is primarily Chinese, so it's more line Grand Asia Market in Raleigh. One good thing we like in Li Ming's over Grand Asia is that it's less crowded and more spacious areas. Although it can get crowded here at times, it doesn't feel as congested as Grand Asia's constant overflow of customers coming and going. However, when it comes to the different goods you can get from Grand Asia's restaurant/cafe/bakery, Li Ming's Global Mart falls short. All you can get in Li Ming's are mostly mediocre-tasting Chinese food that goes well with rice and some noodle bowls that may be too salty to some people. The bakery inside Li Ming's is nice; we used to buy egg tarts and curry bread here. It's no Tours les Jours but it's not bad. They also offer boba milk tea but we wouldn't recommend it. As for the canned/preserved/frozen foods in the grocery section, generally, we prefer Korean brands over Chinese ones, so overall, we still prefer going to H-Mart for buying Asian products. Just like in H-Mart, we've seen unfriendly customer service in Li Ming's but no major issues. The most problematic one was when we tried to dine-in and get the 3 choices of food with white rice, and the lady serving had an attitude, and did'nt put enough fish on our plate. | Overall Score: 3.3/5

    Good options and different stuff to try, staff is never friendly when checking out. Store sometimes…read morecan have a weird smell. Usually go in for rice, the little waffle ice cream sandwiches they have or the sweet longanisa sausages , they're soooo good .

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    Li Ming's Global Mart - Spare ribs, fish, kung pao chicken

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    Salt N Cocoa - Gulab jamun Rolled Ice Cream

    Salt N Cocoa

    4.8(73 reviews)
    6.5 mi

    Amazing as always! Customer service is great and the employee even offered to remake my Nutella…read moretaiyaki if it was too dark for my liking - which it wasn't. Their rolled ice cream combinations are tasty but the made to order taiyaki truly takes the cake. Nice and crispy on the outside that gives away to warm and gooey Nutella. It is smoking hot immediately but hard to wait, hence the vanilla ice cream! The space was nice and bright, clean, and welcoming. They have redone their seating to include a couch which is very comfortable and can comfortably seat different parties with space in between. Always a treat and can't wait to be back.

    A cute place to have ice cream, boba, or even coffee.. with both indoor & outdoor seating. The menu…read morehas quite a few fun options, including the famous Japanese fish-shaped waffles called taiyaki, with both sweet & savory fillings. I was pleasantly surprised to see Kadak Chai (Indian special tea) & Kashmiri Pink Chai Latte on the menu. Definitely something I'd like to try next time! We ordered the Gulab Jamun Rolled Ice Cream & Falooda. The rolled Gulab Jamun ice cream was good, but the Falooda was AMAZING! Perfectly layered and the presentation was on point for both. Before you head there, two things I'd like to mention...the prices are high! $10 for rolled ice cream feels a bit much & the service is slow. But if you're there to spend time with someone, go ahead & chit-chat until your dessert arrives :-P Because sometimes the dessert takes its sweet time... literally :D

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    Salt N Cocoa - Taiyaki! So kawaii!!

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    Taiyaki! So kawaii!!

    Bapu Tea House - Strawberry Matcha latte

    Bapu Tea House

    3.8(20 reviews)
    6.6 mi

    Very cutie spot! Love the ambiance when we came in, the seating is very unique, cute, and…read morecomfortable. If you're looking for your knees to pop a little when you sit down, this is the place for you haha. Go support your local small businesses! I got the ube ice milk at 50% sugar and it was delish! There's only one size and it's pretty big. I definitely recommend mixing it super well with the coated ube on the sides of the cup, otherwise you're just gonna taste the milk. I loved it though cause it felt like I was getting different layers of the drink based on how much ube I had mixed in- very high quality milk and drink. I would totally recommend! My roommate got their strawberry matcha, and we watched them make their matcha and 100% authentic, it's not just some concentrate, we watched them mix the matcha with the designated whisk- super high quality and she loved it too. I had a sip and their boba quality is also 10/10, super super chewy and nice! The guy behind the counter was also really kind- very quick service, patient with you as you look at their wonderful menu. You can also ask to sample some of their toppings to make a well-informed decision for yourself. They also have little gifts you can buy in the form of tea, popping boba, or even cute boba/drink carriers. Also, they have a cute interactive wall where you can write a note or draw some pictures. Would be back again! Personally think it would be fun if there were also board games around too!

    | Overview + Brown…read moreSugar Ice Milk is deliciously creamy + Boba texture is perfect + Decent milk tea size in a cute cup with "ears" + Good selection of fruit teas, smoothies & iced coffee drinks + Cool ambiance + Fast customer service - Boba cost extra for Brown Sugar Ice Milk - Taro milk tea here is made of powder / other ingredients look artificial - Various toppings in the open - are they clean? - Menu is purely drinks; no desserts or snacks | Full Review Located in a corner of the Hope Valley Commons shopping area, Bapu Teahouse Durham looks inviting from the outside with its cool boba milk tea structure by the cafe's front door, showing Bapu's simple logo outside. Bapu's ambiance inside looks artsy, with cute aesthetics and cool atmosphere. What stood out to me was the assortment of toppings displayed. The good thing: they look pretty colorful and fresh; the not-so-good thing: they're uncovered, so I'm not sure if they're clean. Nonetheless, it's convenient to see the different topping options you can add to your milk tea. I noticed Bapu uses the artificial purple taro powder for its milk tea instead of taro paste, so I eliminated that choice from my milk tea selection process. There was only one young employee who took orders and also made the milk teas when I went, but his customer service was good as he made fine recommendations and served my order fast. Unlike Boba Baba's eye-aching menu screens, Bapu Teahouse's menu overhead looks clear with photos, highlighting its special drinks. There are no kiosks here, so you'd have to order face-to-face. As the server recommended, I ordered the Brown Sugar Ice Milk (75% sweetness, light ice). It doesn't look as Instagram-worthy as Tiger Sugar's brown sugar milk teas, but it looks yummy enough, with brown sugar syrup clearly visible in Bapu's cute & translucent cup with ears. Bapu only serves 1 size for its drinks. When I ordered this, the server asked if I wanted boba. Most decent milk tea cafes I go to automatically already have the basic tapioca pearls or boba by default in their brown sugar milk tea drinks but Bapu charges extra for that. Brown Sugar Ice Milk is listed as $6. With the boba topping, I ended up paying a total of $7.76, which is slightly higher than average price of brown sugar boba milk teas in cafes I've been to. Compare that to Feng Cha in Morrisville, which offers Dirty Boba (brown sugar milk tea for only $6.25 with the boba already included, so Bapu's pricing here sounds like a joke. To be fair, the size of the cup is large enough, with its cute top that reminds me of Doraemon or Hello Kitty. The material of it doesn't look cheap and it feels fun to hold. The sweetness of the brown sugar flavor was just right. It might have been too sweet if it was set to 100% sweetness level, and it's still probably slightly sweet at 50% but my usual preference of 75% for any brown sugar milk tea was perfect here. The milk was deliciously-creamy with the fresh & chewy boba - perfect texture. Server did a good job blending with just the right amount of ice, good amount of brown sugar syrup & boba. It's not on the same level as Boba Baba's Brown Sugar Boba or Tiger Sugar's brown sugar drinks but it's better than many mediocre brown sugar milk teas I've tried in other cafes. Bapu Teahouse's menu is purely drinks, with a nice variety of milk teas, fruit teas, smoothies & iced coffee. Sadly, there are no snack or non-drink dessert options here that you can pair with your milk tea. It's not a big deal if you're only craving for a drink, and it looks like Bapu has a good selection of toppings to customize your order. Just prepare to pay extra for those. | Overall Score: 3.4/5 | Recommended Alternative: Sharetea in Morrisville

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    Bapu Tea House - Brown sugar ice milk tea

    Brown sugar ice milk tea

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    Hangyodon Underwater Refresher - Citrus & Lychee Lemonade

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    Frozy - Looked better than it tasted.

    Frozy

    4.1(94 reviews)
    6.1 mi
    $

    Service: they were fairly quick with the smoothies! But if you want to have it fast, go for the…read morefro-yo bar instead and pick your fav fro-yo and toppings. The toppings bar is clean and well managed so it was great to choose from without getting messy. The different flavors were great too! All the fro-yo was smooth, creamy, and didn't taste like perfume lol. The smoothies are more heavy on the yogurt side than the flavor. So ask for more fruit than yogurt when you get it. Ambiance: it's a great place to for a 2nd date maybe lol. Just for a quick dessert. Or even bring the kids as you can get them to choose their own toppings. Overall: would come again!

    A bunch of things could improve basically me and my friend went in here and Who was after watching…read morea movie. We were really really craving some frozen yogurt specifically tart frozen yogurt when we went in we both tried different flavors and immediately we turned to each other and we both had more eyebrow raised we then tried another different flavor one new flavor each and we thought then at the same time we looked at each other and we were like does this taste... Spoiled rotten? And it did it turns out that our frozen yogurt were sour and fizzy and that leads us to believe that there was some fermentation happening now maybe the manager forgot to turn the fridge on overnight I don't know what happened, but something was wrong. When I asked the girl working at the counter. She seemed a little bit nervous so you know I didn't really push that hard but definitely something needs to change

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    Frozy - Kiwi fruit tea with mango poppers

    Kiwi fruit tea with mango poppers

    Frozy - Kiwi and mango fruit tea with mango poppers for each

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