Kung Fu Tea

I used to work within 2 minutes walking distance from this KFT and it was my saving grace!!! Whenever the afternoon hit, my after lunch coma would approach and this tea would revive me. In a area dominated by latin cuisine and café shops, KFT sticks out like a sore thumb!
My favorite being the passion fruit Lychee tea and on occasion I had a black milk tea with bobos. This is a hut size location, but it gets the job done! The staff is friendly and they work quick!
If you’re in the area shopping on 82^nd, take a Tea break at Kung Fu.

The Lychee Punch Bubble Tea is probably one of the popular flavors but it is sooo delicious and the girls are so nice and fast service!

Walked by the other day and saw their sanitary inspection rating is a C. I think that says enough!

Some great Milk tea. Love having a nice drink from here! Drinks are tasty, but the service can sometimes be aggressive.

Love all their drinks. Bubble milk green tea is my favorite. They’ve added a couple of new things after I stopped working here.
Karem is the best!

Workers are always super nice and this was my favorite place to go… until I sipped a piece of glass into my mouth… not sure where it came from, but definitely will not be returning. So sad.

I’m a bubbles tea fan this bubbles had a nice, i usually stick with the taro bubble tea
Next time i’ll try another flavor.
Staff is so nice and friendly.

Next to the subway station. Great way to get a snack (stroopwafels) and your bubble tea fix on your way home or to work!

Best bubble tea. Only downside is that they are cash only.
I would recommend getting the milk tea. You can also tell them you want less sugar

I come here pretty often on my way to work. I usually get the fruit teas like passion fruit or mango. For some reason the last time i went the girl put extra mango jellies on top of the boba. It didn’t taste all that great. I’ve had tea at other places and this one is pretty average. Sometimes the bubbles taste old and like honey. Still, I’m happy to have a tea place in the neighborhood.

Worst place to get a TARO SLUSH! Bubbles tasted like rubber ! Discussing the slush it self was nasty never coming here again.

So I came here with my boyfriend around 6PM sometime last week, not anywhere near closing time, and they were out of tapioca. Really, guys? You literally have one job. And it’s basically midway into your shift, are you not planning to make more? It takes 5 minutes to make tapioca, just saying.
Second time I frequented this establishment was today. I walked by around 5PM, the three guys fumbling around inside said the place was closed. I walked by again maybe 10 minutes later. Still closed. Then what are you idiots doing in there? Jeez.
There will not be a third visit for me. I can’t say the same for my other half because he lives a block away and has a strange affinity towards Kung Fu Tea.
By the way, please for the love of all that’s good order your drinks with 30% or 50% sweetness. My first sip of KFT a few years ago left me crying for mercy and I was unable to piece my life back together until after I drank four bottles of water to wash the sugary tea flavored syrup from my tongue. It’s just… what the fuck, I don’t know what you’re doing with your life if you don’t think their drinks are way too sweet.
Tea-​flavored sugary syrup with tapioca. To be fair, I actually enjoyed the oolong bubble milk tea with no sugar. I just got it from a different KFT in Queens so I guess I’ll go leave them a good review.

Even though one third of my cup of Green Milk Tea was filled with powders before any liquid actually actually went in, I can’t help to buy a cup nearly every night. It’s probably the reason I’ve gained 5 pounds in the last 2 weeks that I’ve been going there.
I also get the Golden Oolong Tea sometimes. I like how there is a choice of how much sugar you can add because I probably would’ve been 10 pounds heavier if I didn’t cut my sugar by 70%.
It’d be nice if the place was bigger and had seats.

There’s this HOT Chinese girl that works there!
Also, the bubble tea is pretty good too.

I’m a round-​eyed expert on boba and this was the best Taro Milk Tea (cold) I ever had.
The tea was fragrant and tasty but the boba themselves had a sweetness I’d never experienced and were the perfect consistency. Maybe the secret here is the shaking machines which I never saw before. Glad to see the also have locales in Manhattan!

Thanks to Jando and the rest of the Unilocal team for directing me to this local gem.
Conveniently located (as long as you’re not driving) at the intersection of Roosevelt Ave and 82 st. I came here with a hankering for some Boba, and left with a delicious cup of passion tea with green jelly. Mm Mm good!
The servers are pretty helpful, although they looked at me like I was lost. I guess they aren’t used to seeing a well dressed white man ordering bubble tea in the middle of Jackson Heights?

For all of the Latin businesses that crowd this section of Jackson Heights, it seems totally random to have a Kung Fu Tea located on the corner of the 82^nd St location. And by totally random, I really mean incredibly brilliant.
There are no seats, barely a counter, and maybe two employees max doing their powder shaking thing. No complaints on the drink front, my go-​to taro milk green tea with herbal jelly is as good here as it would be at any other location.
Is the boba pricey? Comparad to Flushing, yes. Compared to the rest fo the KF chain, it’s definitely average at best. I might be wrong, but I always feel like their menu is somewhat condensed compared to the bustling sister locations that have more people and generally more flavors to offer.
I wish they were open later at night. This would be a perfect spot for a late night taco crawl or arepa craving session. If I don’t fee like hitting up the nearby Chinatowns for a KFT fix, this Roosevelt spot serves me quite nicely.

To be honest I’m not much of a Bubble Tea person and those chewy pearl things freak me out a bit… but I wandered in here one day in desperation for my iced coffee fix before I hit the 7 train into the city. They recommend to me their signature iced coffee…
OH MAI GAWD. I DON’T EVEN HAVE THE RIGHT WORDS.
Their iced coffee is so amazingly delicious, refreshing and sweet without being disgustingly so.
At this point I’m so happy with them that I decided to also try one of their actual tea offerings since, yanno, that’s what they’re main product is.
I went with their Passion Fruit Green Tea with Lychee jelly — the jelly was a strange consistency, but I do tend to enjoy Lychee flavored things and this was no exception since it WAS tasty.
I’m so happy I decided to try this place even if it all started with iced coffee… I have friends who aren’t from Queens who would absolutely love this place… :)

My NYC friends keeps saying Kung Fu Tea this. Kung Fu Tea that…
I kept thinking it is the Kung Fu tea ceremony I really enjoy and then oh I saw a bubble tea shop.
This small takeout place definitely is busy with tons of teens and young people waiting for their BBT fix. The pearls here are nice and chewy. and is more milky and sweet than I prefer… liquid dessert!
Nice to indulge once in awhile…

Yay, another great Kung Fu Tea. This one right in our neighborhood.
My wife is going to get fat.
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