Tea Twenty One 魚池貳壹

Location: No. 18號, Section 2, Hankou St, Wanhua District, Taipei City, Taiwan 108

Boba Taiwan Grading (BTG): 68.1/100

Number of Stores: 3 (in Taipei)

Price of the Boba Tea: 60 TWD

Order: Boba Milk Tea, Regular Sugar Levels, Regular Ice Levels

Overview: A lesser-known boba tea chain, with thousands of customers. Normal, average pearls with excellent tea (just the right amount of tea and milk), with a substandard if mediocre location and utensils.

Boba Taiwan Grading Overview:

Quality of the Boba Tea (QBT): 58.1/80

Quality of the Pearl: 25.1/40

• Chewiness: 6/10 - The pearl is not chewy enough, with variations in each pearl.

• Hard/softness: 5/10 - The pearls are much too soft, practically melting in your mouth.

• Relative size: 2.1/2.5 - The pearls are slightly too large for the mouth and the straw.

• Amount of Pearl (relative to Volume of Drink): 1.7/2.5 - Slightly too few pearls in the drink.

• Lumpiness: 5/5 - There were no lumps of pearls that made a jam in the straw, which resulted in full points.

• Taste (or sweetness level): 4/5 - The pearl's aftertaste and taste are undetectable and almost non-existent.

• Spherical quality and perfection (of pearl): 3/5 - The pearls are flattened and uneven throughout the drink (due to its softness)

Quality of Tea: 33/40

• Sweetness: 7/10 - There is too little sweetness in the drink (however, it is at 50% sweetness, per the normal)

• Milkiness: 8/10 - Just the right amount of milk, if not slightly too little milk.

• Concentration of tea: 7/10 - A good concentration of tea, but needs a little more.

• Aftertaste: 4/5 - Pleasant aftertaste with slight tangs of tea and milk.

• Wateriness: 7/10 - Slightly too much water

Quality of the Shop (QS): 10/20

• Delivery Speed: 3/5 - Average speed, although slightly late (2-3 minutes)

• Quality of Store: 2/5 - Average location, although slightly dirty and unorganized.

• Quality of Service: 3/5 - Regular service. Asked some not unwanted personal questions, friendly, although the language spoken had a slightly unintelligible dialect.

• Quality of Utensils: 2/5 - Mediocre utensils.