I went to this location a while ago, during the summer, when the weather was extremely hot! Nothing like a cold cup of milk tea to cool yourself off, you know? This was actually my first time visiting any Palgong Tea but after a recommendation from a friend, I couldn't keep putting off visiting this store because I was already somewhat in the area :D When I walked in, one of the workers was hard at work taking promo shots for new drinks that were incoming. (he ended up giving us a few of the drinks to take with us to try but shhhhh) A different worker helped us during our visit to the store and she was extremely friendly! I ended up getting my standard drink of -[OOLONG MILK TEA] in large $4.49 with the least amount of ice and sugar possible! I usually always go for this flavor of milk tea because Oolong is one of my favorite flavors of tea to drink. This is usually how I establish a baseline to see whether or not I'll be back to try some more adventurous drinks! If you're wondering, I'll definitely be back and I have my eyes on a couple of drinks already.... -[TIRAMISU MILK TEA] *seasonal* I guess I have to go back REALLY soon or else this drink may evade me forever D: -[STRAWBERRY EARL GREY MILK TEA] This sounds like it could very well be up my alley because I love earl grey and the flavor of strawberry! I honestly don't see how this combination of flavors could go wrong so I guess I'll have to try either this or the tiramisu one on my next visit! Give this place a try because I heard their cheese foam pairs really well with their Oolong Milk tea! (I still have to try this combination to verify it but I trust the friend who told me this haha) read more

Super cute new bubble tea shop at Yonge and Steeles area! Randomly found this place looking for a place to go to for a late night bbt run and was pleasantly surprised. Inside has a lot of seating options and the decor is modern. They also have free wifi (pw: 80808080). The staff are very friendly and helpful when deciding which drink to get. We got the mango black tea with milk foam and mango smoothie with pineapple jelly. The mango black tea was so good! It is now one of my favourites. You can taste the mango pulp in the drink, and the milk foam is a nice touch. The mango smoothie was average, nothing outstanding. However, the pineapple jelly was different and went well with the smoothie. A bonus is that their prices are not as expensive as the big chains here like Coco, Chatime, etc. Great place for good and reasonably priced bubble tea. Would recommend you give it a try! read more

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MY FAVOURITE BBT STORE Never tastes powdery or like "cheap" tea And the prices are so low compared to a lot of others places! read more

Palgong Tea - Original Milk Tea, Matcha, Strawberry - Bubble Tea Near Me - Thornhill, Ontario

Such a cute bubble tea shop with some really cool flavours! In addition to traditional taro, matcha and fruit bubble teas they have maple and chocolate teas. Can't wait to try them all! So far I've only tried matcha milk tea and strawberry green tea and both were really good. Each tea comes with a free mini booster shot and those were great too. I ended up buying a couple more to try them out. Another pleasant surprise is their desserts. They carry the original and Oreo love me sweet cheesecakes! It's similar to uncle tetsu but more dense and has more flavour. The macarons were really good as well especially the chocolate caramel one. Yum! The shop itself is very cute inside, I can see it being an amazing hangout spot in the summer/after covid. I will definitely return! read more

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First time trying this chain - super disappointed. Tapioca pearls were not chewy and fresh - seemed to have been stewing for a while or not cooked properly, as it's mushy outside but with a hard core on the inside. Asked for less sweet, but you can see in the picture they made this drink 100% sweet. If they were not able to change the sweetness level, they did not mention it. Flavour of the drink is average at best, as they use pre-made syrups and powders, which is normal for many other bubbletea shops. If you like poorly made, artifical powdery flavors, and bad tapioca, try this place. Otherwise, would advise you to stay clear of this location and bubbletea chain, especially when there are so many other choices out there, which is better for your money and satisfaction. Sad to say I threw the drink out. read more

Palgong Tea - The drink I ordered - Bubble Tea Near Me - Thornhill, Ontario

Which one are you? Strawberry smoothie or Taro milk tea with creme cheese? Palgong Tea is a popular Taiwanese bubble tea shop that has made it's way to Toronto! Their menu is nice and a lot more simple then other bubble tea menus I've seen. You can customize the sweetness and ice level. All of the bases are vegan. Something unique is how they offer foam toppings! They offer different flavours like matcha, chocolate and creme cheese. I got the creme cheese with my Taro milk tea and it was lovely! The salty taste with the rich taro flavour was the best. My favourite was definitely the strawberry smoothie. It wasn't too thick, making it easy to slurp. The strong, sweet, refreshing strawberry flavour really hits you on the first taste. The space is bright, modern, clean and muti-use. You can hang out, get some work done or easily just sit around to enjoy the delicious teas. The best part of the restaurant is the partnership with Deaf Culture Center. Half of the downtown location employees identify as deaf, making it Toronto's first bubble tea shop that you can order in sign language. A portion of all sales is donated to Deaf Culture Center - how amazing is that! read more

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Not a bad BBT place but service is really slow as they had just one person working and poor guy, it was only his second week and he was literally doing everything. There was another person at the back doing other preparation. Their drinks price definitely went by but overall, their drinks are decent...Seating is still not available but the place is big so hopefully they can reopened up the seating so that more people can chilll... read more

This simple, inexpensive, old school style bubble tea joint is a welcome addition to Toronto's bubble tea scene. I understand this is Palgong Tea's second location in the GTA, with the first location having opened recently in the Distillery District. I am usually never in the area of this new location, but I found out about this new cafe by chance upon checking Yelp after an appointment in Thornhill. As the first reviewer stated, the cafe is tucked away in the back of a nondescript plaza on Steeles -- I actually missed the turn when prompted by GPS, thinking it was in the Tim Hortons plaza. Once you find it, the cafe is very nice: clean, spacious, and quiet. The service was friendly and efficient as well (though I was the only customer at the time). The original milk black tea, with tapioca pearls, was a blast to the past for me. It's an OG Taiwan style bubble tea; not too milky, classic tea flavour, perfect chewy tapioca. I was very happy with my choice of 70% sugar for this drink. The grapefruit green tea was also great. They use pulp instead of fresh fruit. My only regret was asking for 50% sugar, which was not quite enough to neutralise the tartness of the grapefruit and green tea. I thought the addition of passion fruit jelly would make up for the lower sugar level, but I guess I was wrong. The best part, tbh, is the price tag. These two XL drinks, comparable to large sizes at other chains, only cost about $11 after tax. What a deal! They also offer regular teas, for which a portion of proceeds go toward an organisation supporting Deaf individuals. With so many bubble tea shops chasing after the latest and greatest trends these days, often at the expense of offering high quality classics, I appreciate the basic menu and humble price point of Palgong. I'm definitely rooting for this business which is bringing bubble tea back to its roots. read more

Palgong Tea - Original milk black tea (XL) with tapioca - Bubble Tea Near Me - Thornhill, Ontario

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Mango Earl Grey tea - got 30% and it was too sweet. I recommend 0% but otherwise this was a very good drink! Lots of Earl Grey taste and small pieces of mango in it too! Grapefruit Earl Grey tea - got 0% sugar, too much grapefruit flavour and not enough Earl Grey taste haha Strawberry Earl Grey Milk Tea - tasted like strawberry powder with little to no Earl Grey taste at all. Disappointing. Coffee milk tea - just mediocre. *Price for the drinks are fair and competitive though! (especially when on promo). read more

This is the best bubble tea place I've tried in Vaughan, probably all of Toronto! Every flavour i have tried is amazing. I love the smoothies and all the iced tea's are amazing. The main thing that I love about this place is the amazing customer service. Every single time I have been to the Thornhill location, I am greeted so nicely and the employees go out of their way to start a conversation with me and tell me about the different drinks they have. Every employee that works at this location is so respectful, has great customer service and people skills and most of all always makes my drinks correctly and quickly. I absolutely recommend this place and will always be coming here! read more

Palgong Tea - Lemon green iced tea with tapioca - Bubble Tea Near Me - Thornhill, Ontario

Tried their taro milk tea and original milk tea, both taste like powder and tapioca it's very hard. read more

Palgong Tea - Origins milk tea - Bubble Tea Near Me - Thornhill, Ontario

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This new location is really nice! Their fruit teas are slightly different than your usual Chatime or Coco but it's good for a variety of sweetness levels. However, this location is very hard to notice as it's on the back side of a plaza near Toys R Us. Parking is fine. There's free WIFI inside and the cafe is quite spacious, good for working. Their pricing is also slightly cheaper and on the lower end of bubble tea price point. The tapioca was a bit small and hard last time I went, but the pricing is fine for what they're giving you. This is worth giving a try if you're not willing to pay prices for other shops like The Alley or OneZo Tapioca! I would totally come back again. read more

Didn't even know this bubble tea shop opened up near my house. It is a welcome addition as the only bbt place west of yonge is tea shop 168. Interesting that this store says "Kaohsiung origin", but upon research noticed that this is actually a korean bbt franchise. I am guessing what they mean by kaohsiung origin is their tea source? Came here on an evening near 6pm, just a couple of customers ordering in front of us. But wow, the service friendly but slow. I guess partly because the customers ahead of us had so many questions and didn't what to order... they literally talked to the barista/cashier for a good 15 minutes and there was no one else who could help us. Our order also took a while since there was only one person manning the store. I would come here if not in a hurry and want to chill at their cafe which was alright. I enjoyed the ghibli instrumental music they played on the sound system. The price for the drinks are really what make this place attractive. As well, their fruit teas they offer are unique compared to other bubble tea franchises. I got the grapefruit green tea and thought it tasted nice. However, I was not a fan of their bubbles... these were smaller in size than the usual kind I am used to. I found them tasteless and kind of hard/improperly cooked. read more

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There's a bubble tea place (Two Nine Tea) near Yonge and Finch that used to be a Palgong Tea but rebranded. It's my favorite BBT place in an area where they're like 3x as abundant as Starbucks. I saw this location on Ritual with a $5-off-first-order coupon and was like sure, why not. This location is in the plaza next to Toys R Us and McDonalds, tucked in at the outside of Sanction (sports clothing store). The inside is spacious and clean. Fair warning: A lot of this review will be comparing this location to Two Nine Tea, because I've consumed a hell of a lot of their product :P The tea seems to be roughly the same product. It's high quality for the price tag (which is slightly more expensive than Two Nine Tea, I think?) and they have a very respectable variety of flavours including some tasty-looking iced fruit teas. The tea was well-prepared and all my annoying requests were followed. They have some different menu items (pastries, matcha foam topping) which is cool. The pastries aren't bargain-priced but they're right in line with, say, the higher-end offerings at a Longo's or Bake Code. They seem fairly no-frills. The staff member I dealt with was super friendly and helpful even though she was the only person there on a dark, rainy Saturday night. Would absolutely go back, especially because Ritual is super convenient. read more

First time trying this place and had an amazing experience. The staff, especially the nice lady with blonde short hair, were nice and had amazing customer service. read more

I came here to try the Macarons & Mint Macarons & they were old & stale. Were not keeping up with the freshness of them and I wasted $11 on crappy macarons. Needs more organization. read more

When I first walked in here the worker immediately acknowledged my presence. I asked what would be a popular drink and they were happy to give me the options from non-caffeine to caffeine options. Their tapioca is gluten free and the taste is just right as well as the texture. They also told me there are coffee options since I love coffee. Definitely coming back here again read more