Bo-baw

Boston, Mass. - A brief stint in Baw-ston proved QUITE fruitful in the quest for good boba. Boston Tea Stop has been in Harvard Square for about 2.5 years, after replacing what used to be a Lollicup. And here, boba goes by its God-give name: boba. After a summer of listening to people call it "bubble tea," it was like going back home!

BOBA BRIEFING
Name: Boston Tea Stop
Address: 54 JFK St., Cambridge, MA 02138 (Harvard Square)
Phone: (617) 945-0017
Date visited: Sunday, Aug. 19, 2007
Goes by: Boba
Price: $3.15 - $4.00
Form: Milk tea, tea, infusion milk tea (basically flavored milk tea), ice blended drinks, juice. You can substitute jelly for boba, or do 1/2 boba, 1/2 jelly.
Flavors: About 70. Jelly flavors: lychee and mango

Menu

Hot/cold: Both
Flavors tried: Milk tea, yogurt infusion milk tea, almond infusion milk tea

Milk tea


Yogurt infusion milk tea

Lid style: Sealed plastic wrap
Smiles: Where do I begin?

• Taste, texture and proportion of tea:boba are pretty darn near perfect.
  
• The yogurt infusion milk tea is boba-tastic. It's exactly like Yoduly, the miniature Asian drinks that all of us ABC kids used to freeze to make slush. Yum!
  
• They call their hot milk tea "hottie." Hottie!
  
• They sell Boston Tea Stop T-shirts for $10.50 and mugs for $3.50.
• It's always nice enjoying boba with folks who understand boba: my old Berkeley buddies and kindergarten-through-HS buddy Tiff (also an MIT genius).
• Wi-fi
• Given its proximity to several campuses, it gets lots of traffic from college students.
  

Scowls:

• Their Web site is down. That's all I got. Seriously.
  

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Overall rating: 9.5/10