Tapioca Express

Cash only… boba milk tea with no boba $ 1.62 great price! Private parking lot… Parking can we hard to find during busy hours

Cash only. They usually dont accept bigger amounts higher than 20bucks. Delish popcorn chicken and calamari pick med. HOT with milktea or anything cold. Place is not really crowded everytime we come over here. Not like the one in fremont and milpitas. Just beware of the bystanders outside.

It’s just like your average pearl tea place. I usually get taro snow with pearls and I’m usually satisfied but for some reason, it didn’t taste as good as it used to.
I finally realized that this place has changed its name… The customer service is there, but I just feel like this place is missing something…

Busy busy busy.
Ordered the new mango yogurt drink. it was quite good. not bad at all.
The wait took awhile, luckily there were seats. they also have boardgames. nice touch.
Overall, cash only joint, seats in and outside, price is ok, variety not bad. Would come back probably.

I didn’t have a drink here but rather their popcorn chicken. Tasted like any other popcorn chicken. Sat on their bench and watched tv for a little bit as I was digesting bum bo hue.

No Longer Tapex now… it is some other name, but still the same menu and same workers. Stamp cards don’t work here tho!
I usually get lemon and honey green tea, which isn’t on the menu but i go there so much that she knows exactly what I want.
Place is pretty clean, has a big menu, and the drinks are decent (slightly on the sweet side, but not too bad).
I usually go to the vietnamese sandwich place next door to get a sandwich, come here to buy a drink, and then eat there. They are totally cool with me doing that and still pretty friendly.
Not sure what else to say about this place, except its good!

Place is clean and loud
She said it’s happy hour time!
She gave me a discount!
Service was quick and slow
Drink was ice cold and sweet
Got my almond milk tea and left!
Nah, I didn’t
I went right next door
Phuc Kim Long!

I don’t like this location for a number of reasons…
— There’s a lot of shady people who loiter outside
— Drinks are watered down. My taro milk tea with pearls was far from satisfying.
— Cash only
There are tons of other boba places nearby. Do yourself a favor and go somewhere else.

When it comes to boba, I’m a creature of habit and always order the same thing: milk tea with pearls. Yes, some say it’s kinda boring but hey, I get to skip all that extra syrup/​powder/​SUGAR it takes to flavor the drink. Just give it to me pure!
The milk tea here has been great every time, definitely not too sweet. Also, they’re really nice about accommodating my pearl count. What? Pearl count? Lemme explain. I like pearls… just not too many. So whenever I go to these places, I tell the cashier that I’d like VERY VERY little boba… like literally one row on the bottom… or like 10 – 15 pieces. Sure it sounds crazy but you have to be exact in order to get what you want… and sometimes these boba places get it right, and sometimes they don’t. This location happens to get it right every time, and for that, I’m eternally grateful!

Drinks are either watered down or too sweet and it’s lame how it’s cash only.
Service is decent though and the interior is decorated nicely. Since it’s so close to Great Mall, my friends and I come here from time to time for a drink and the seating is pretty spacious. But overall… I’ve had much much better.

I could do without the chain smoking wannabe hipsters that shop at the same store with the stank attitude and smelly dog. If you were so «cool», you wouldn’t be hanging out here scratching lottery tickets and only ordering a couple of drinks for a group of 20.
Oh where was I? Oh yes, my husband brought me here to get me to try a snow bubble drink after I had a horrible experience back in Alameda. I found the Caramel Snow Bubble with the jelly balls to be a bit too much for me. I couldn’t get passed the balls’ texture (That’s what she said). The drink itself was a little too sweet for my liking, but good nonetheless. Instead, I opted to get the cantaloupe juice. It shut my pie hole. :B
Cash only? I can dig it. The cashier not so much. Cheer up a bit, I’m sure your parents will get you that new iPhone soon!

This was a different Tapioca Express than the other ones I’ve been to. Has more of a café vibe, with 2 computers with wi-​fi on the right hand side, some dollar machines to get some cute little toys from, a bench in front of a table with magazines, etc. The tea tastes like any Tapioca Express, but there was an odd stench in the place, as well as the restroom. Good thing we sat outside. It’s probably nice to hang out in, but they need to put some air fresheners up in here.

Fast, Friendly, Service. Good Thai Ice Tea with Boba. Cute Asian Spinner Counter Girl and Free Internet Access. Win Win Situation.

Not a fan of bad boba. This place has powered milk/​syrup and has a bunch of annoying ghetto high school kids loitering. There’s a good amount of seating here, but the horrible drinks and crowd would make me drive that extra 5 minutes to Milpitas Square and go to Fantasia.
If anything, I get the Avocado Snow Bubble. It actually doesn’t taste half bad, but the damn drink is like 950 calories. Better loosen up that belt buckle if you want to keeping coming back for these.

If I order mini pearls in my drink, please give me a mini straw!
My drinks always come out tasty here. Try the thai tea, milk tea with pudding, green apple or lychee slush! You can’t go wrong with those :)

A great spot for high schoolers to lounge around when everything else is closed. There are too many kids here! But I still come, not to lounge, but to grab drinks to go. It’s become more and more a tradition to eat at Phở Tau Bay and then buy some drinks –Taro Smoothie with Boba, Almond Milk Tea to share with the family. I tried something new though this time, something that is actually pretty tasty, I was adventurous and decided to do the coffee jelly with the milk tea. Pretty decent! I really enjoy the taste of coffee and this is a great way to add a twist to your boring milk tea.
The taro, I found out is just powder. Too bad too because i had thought it was actual Taro paste. I always ask them to make it super thick and this time I heard the lady ask him to add in more Taro powder.
All in all, it’s a convenient place for a quick boba run. They have sofas and those weird asian game machines. Not a place I would really kick it at, but hey at least it’s open to the public to enjoy.
I wish they had those stamp cards, like buy 9 get 1 free or some sort of deals that other boba places have. That would encourage me to come back more.

It’s what’d you expect of a Tapioca Express: full of loitering asians, high school kids who never take off their backpacks. Not my ideal environment to be in. But it’s all good to grab a drink and go!
Tap Ex locations don’t seem very consistent all all to me.
I like the jade green tea that this location has. Seems like the others don’t have it. Also, I think this location makes good popcorn chicken– I like to ask for it extra crunchy and extra extra spicy.

Hrmph, I don’t know what went wrong with this place.
I still remember back when they first opened… back in like 2003? They knew how to run a restaurant. They targeted their clients and they ran promotions that would attract clients and make a bigger profit. What’s happened since then, I’m not really sure.
I go there now, and there’s no one there except for a few racer wannabes that smoke a pack a day. Their drinks taste watered down and the one reason I still go there (the seafood toast, which btw, is amazing) is always out of stock! What kind of restaurant doesn’t have their specialty dish available for consumption? Bah humbug.
Thankfully they’ve opened the TapX over on Mckee. I don’t have to go here as long as I’m not craving that seafood toast.

It seemed like I somehow found milk tea places that were different from the other locations I’ve been to. When I came here in the afternoon, there was nobody in sight except the two employees who worked there. I ordered a milk tea with no pearls for $ 2.70 which was 3 cents cheaper than the usual $ 2.73 price. It tasted good and not watered down at all.
There was a giant flat screen tv, plenty of seats, 2 computers (I guess to surf the internet but they were off/​in standby), and a vending machine. This was the first Tapioca Express I’ve been to that had a vending machine. So if you don’t want to eat the food they serve here, then you got this vending machine. The only thing about it was a lot of the food in the vending machine was bought already.
The outside of this place made it look deceiving (maybe almost shady-​like) because all the windows in the front were tinted. Actually, it was pretty nice on the inside in terms of furniture and atmosphere so don’t let the outside fool you. I’m probably wrong about this place at night but this review was based on my visit in the afternoon. Looked good to me!

Good quality boba tea and a friendly staff. The tapioca pearls aren’t too sweet or too much or too hard, they’re just right. LoL They have an extensive menu so, even your friends who don’t drink boba or prefer coffee drinks will be happy to go there with you, as is what happened to me today. My friend doesn’t like boba tea but said his iced mocha was just the way he liked it. My jasmine milk tea with boba was great too… not sicky sweet and I love the ‘flower’ aftertaste.
Plus, the guy on the front counter with the lil hat on was cute. He wasn’t there the last time.
My friend and boyfriend laugh at me for saying this but, scenery is important too!
EDIT: Ok, I have to take away a star cause my girlfriend got a flavored tea here yesterday that was the worst tea I’ve ever had! It was supposed to be a peach green tea but all you could taste was SWEET and the boba’s were mushy. :(