Sharetea Markham

I usually visit Sharetea after my meal at AkaTeppan because it’s right next door. I always get take out. So far, I’ve tried the taro, strawberry slush (with ice cream), passion fruit, and wintermelon lemon. I would say their quality is consistent and the service is pretty good. Every time I go, I ask the cashier which one she likes the most and she makes a few suggestions and it pretty helpful. We never wait long for our drinks, which is great and we are generally pretty satisfied with the flavours, except, I think I would prefer wintermelon without the lemon, as it cancels out the wintermelon flavour, which i prefer. I’ll be returning if i’m in the area.

I won’t be going back here ever again. While I do really enjoy their black milk tea but their one employee really has the worst customer service in the world. She is always the cashier, first time I ordered and asked for a black milk tea, she says I don’t know what that is, what is it? Seriously, I don’t know how she didn’t know what the heck that is.
Numerous times after that she always is either in a bad mood, rude when taking my order, giving attitude when I don’t understand what she’s saying and ask her to repeat, impatient when I correct a mistake she does while taking my order, her name is Carmen, Asian lady with black frame glasses. Watch out for her.
Goodbye Sharetea, there is way too many other bubble teas in Markham for me to give my business to you with the staff who is always angry, upset, rude and rolls her eyes at me.

Terrible. Went twice, both times were a disappointment, not to mention that the customer service was terrible.
Taro milk tea tasted like purple water. Green tea matcha latte tasted like green milk. Don’t bother wasting your time and money on this place.

This place is average in terms of taste. I think the price however is a little bit on the higher side. Nothing wrong with their drinks or service but I would say with so many options around I wouldn’t choose this as my first choice.

I wanted to get some bbt after lunch at FMP and decided to give Sharetea another try. The first time I came was when they first opened, and wasn’t very impressed with the wintermelon tea I got that time. Currently, they have a special going on where if you buy one of their new drinks, then you get any other drink for half price. So I decided to get the black sesame milk tea with red bean toppings. It was pretty good, the red bean toppings complimented the black sesame milk tea very nicely. My friend got the mange ice blend for half price. I thought this drink was very good; it was very refreshing. It would definitely be one of my go to drink for the summer time.

I was just in the area and I wanted bubble tea after lunch. I happened to walk by sharetea and thought I would stop by. I walked to the store and noticed it was still close even though they were suppose to open at 12! And I was there at 12:20. Even another person tried to open the door and I had to tell them it was closed. So disappointed.
Anyway I ended up inside FMP and went to prestotea instead! They never fail me.

One of my two current favourite places for bubble tea, Sharetea Markham has a bright inviting space with limited seating. I first tried Sharetea when they had their buy one, get one grand opening special. Since then Chatime has had competition in my heart in terms of go-​to BBT places.
Like at Chatime, I appreciate being able to customize sugar and ice level, as well as toppings at Sharetea. Not sure what you want? They have a list of their top selling drinks. I personally enjoy the Okinawa milk tea, which has a brown sugar flavour, with grass jelly. For me this combination is a suitable albeit sweeter alternative to Chatime’s #2 (roasted milk tea with grass jelly). During the summer, the kiwi drink is quite refreshing. Ginger milk tea is also worth noting.
Sharetea uses the Vicinity loyalty program (as does GongCha and Chatime), so I can scan my Chatime loyalty card for points at Sharetea and the Vicinity program keeps my respective bubble tea loyalty points in order and I only have to carry the one card.

I adore Sharetea. This particular location, however, tarnishes their name. With all the other bubble tea choices in the Markham area, I would avoid this location. Honey Milk Oonlong is made with powder milk.
There is no excuse to use powder milk. «The Dairy Farmers of Ontario (DFO) acknowledged this month that a growing glut of skim milk — what remains after making butter and cream — has led to periodic dumping. Nearly a million litres have been thrown away since the end of May (2015), just in Ontario.» Just ask the dairy farmers to donate skim milk to your store.
Please save the Sharetea franchise by changing the name to Zharetea!

good place, ppl are friendly
Nice drink, they made a mistake they will give you a new one

Yes there maybe other bubble tea places inside the First Markham Place (FMP) mall, but Sharetea is the bbt (or boba as some would say) with it’s own sit down location as soon as you order. Sure, FMP may have the food court seats along with the other restaurants in their but it’s not the same as having their own sit down location!
The interior of the place is filled with bright colours. The wall is covered with stripes of felt paper which is a cool idea. As soon as you enter, there’s a 5 step poster on how to order.
1. Choose drink & size — if you can’t decide, they also have a top 5 menu in case
2. Choose toppings — no mini pearls when I went :(
3. Choose your sweetness (I do not recommend less sugar for matcha green tea)
4. Choose how much ice you want (i usually ask for less ice as I do not like the ice taking up half my drink)
5. Enjoy!
I was a little disappointed as the entrance said there was wifi, when I was clearly not able to get wifi signal. Boo…
Oh, they only take cash or debit.
Seems like ChaTime may have some competition!

Went over after lunch to check out their bubble tea as it’s fairly new but wasn’t impressed. They claimed to be Taipei’s no. 1 but I’m doubtful.
The options for non-​milk brewed tea is limited, only 5. We had the wintermelon and oolong green tea. Both tasted just OK, had better elsewhere. The pearls in my oolong green tea had some that were stuck together and make sucking them up harder. Another friend had a mango green tea and it was pretty standard too.
Shop wise, it’s spacious with high tables and chairs. There’s a colourful wall to brighten the place up. Service is fast but not very friendly.
Best thing about this place is you can choose your topping.

Markham, color me impressed when there’s more bubble tea shops per block than a starbucks. After having dinner in the plaza, I mosied on over and ordered a hot taro milk tea, half sugar. Sharetea was super popular that evening for high schoolers and youngins, thus hard to find any open seats. The gal at the register handed me my order with a warning, «be careful, it’s really hot!» As I took my drink out, I heeded her words of caution– only to find my drink barely lukewarm. While I did enjoy the fact that the taro didn’t leave a chalky aftertaste (usually a sign that it’s not fresh), I sipped a fourth of it before tossing it out.

My drink was powdery… which imo is a pretty significant problem for a bubble tea place. There are tii many other places to go for a drink for me to bother with this place again.

Another bubble tea place. Tried the large mango green tea with lychee jelly. Cost just over $ 5 after tax. The flavour is really good. Didn’t like how some of the mango jelly were just cut up chunks which gave it a weird texture. I wished they had coconut jelly like at Chatime.

This sharetea is super cute, complete with colourful felt walls and chalkboard drawings! Since the grand promo is buy one get one free, I was like … «yo. that’s half price cha time. let’s do it.» I’m such a huge fan of all the taiwan bbt places that came over to market in toronto. Taiwan bbt is absolutely 100% QUEEN. The store was clean, but there weren’t a lot of seats inside– it can definitely get to be a problem as bubble tea rush hour comes around.
The girl working at the front was super efficient and put in our order within a minute. 2 large QUALITY bbts was only $ 6… SO MUCH YES! The regular prices are similar to cha time, if not a little cheaper. You can also choose the sugar and ice levels. Although the drinks have similar flavours, there are also unique flavours and mixes I’ve ever heard of– fresh milk bubble tea? Just how fresh is this milk we speak of? Do we have a cow in the back? Maybe I’ll try it next time.
There weren’t a lot of people in the store but I think they are understaffed; each tea is intricate and takes a long time to make– I think we waited around 10−15min for our order even though there were only 5 people before us. Good thing I had nothing to do with my life at the moment, so I didn’t really care. My oolong honey milk tea was good, but still was too sweet at 50% sugar. The hokkaido milk tea was good, but since the boyfriend got 0% ice, it tasted like warm regurgitated baby milk. I also didn’t like the tapioca so much, just because it was all different sizes. tasted a bit like tadpoles sliding into my mouth.
I would go back as long as there’s the promo going on; other than that. maybe once in awhile! Super cute store though! Definitely better than lambie, who used to be there… at least no cockroaches spotted yet.

Quiet and clean shop. Décor was colourful and neat. Perfect place to chill and grab a drink. Not mention it’s advertised as Taipei’s number 1 tea place.
Theres a huge selection of drinks and some quite unique to Sharetea. You also get to choose the amount of sugar and ice in your drink. I suggest 30% sugar and 0 ice to maximize taste and value.
Finally ice blends come with a scoop of ice cream!

First time here because we wanted to try a new bbt joint. Nice and colourful walls.
We ordered a matcha red bean ice blended, a kiwi fruit tea with ice jelly and a mango ice blended.
All were a little sweeter than expected even with less sugar (30 or 50%). The ice blended comes with an ice cream scoop on top and also only comes in large.
One issue: The kiwi fruit tea did not taste like kiwi or tea so we decided to ask for an exchange. The Hokkaido milk tea was our replacement and was a good switch. Customer service was great in dealing with the situation. Definitely our best experience with service at a bbt place. More so a 3.5 rating
If craving bbt around the area, would come back to try different things.

I noticed Sharetea opened at the First Markham Plaza and I believe they took over the old bbt spot. I was super excited to try since I heard good things from the Yonge St location. I still have yet tried that location though.
I came on a Friday night, and I feel like they probably just opened pretty recently. The place is quite spacious with limited tables and chairs. I would say they are looking for people to just take away unless they are looking to add more seats. The décor is simple but they have a very colourful wall and their beverage selection menu is also very colourful. They a wide range of drinks… milk teas, green/​black teas, the foam tea (which they call ‘Creama’) and etc.
I like how their label on their bbt really reflects Taipei– I had a Taipei 101 label… brings me back to the good times in TW :)
I ordered their brown rice milk tea with tapioca– which was pretty good. I am not a fan of the regular sized bubbles to be honest… but it is really not bad here. Also, note that I did want their mini tapiocas but unfortunately they said they did not have it. There is always next time!
My friend got the winter melon creama, which she really enjoyed as she is a milk foam tea connoisseur.
I would like to see in the future, the drinks that they feature or popular though cause essentially it is my first time at Sharetea. Not a big deal, but it would be a nice thing to have.
If you are in the area or looking for a drink after dinner, do try this place out– another good alternative