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Pearl Fever Tea House
Category: Food Coffee & Tea Coffee & Tea [Edit]
2182 Western PkwyVancouver, BC V6T 1V6
Neighbourhood: UBC
(604) 221-9882
- Hours:
Mon-Sun 11 am - 11 pm
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Price Range:
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$$
- Parking:
- Street
- Outdoor Seating:
- Yes
- Wi-Fi:
- Free
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- Yes
12 reviews for Pearl Fever Tea House
12 reviews in English
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Review from Kelly C.
I like this place! It's close to campus, so convenient for me, and better than the awful place in the SUB. I had the Banana Chocolate smoothie type drink and I really liked it. My partner had a milk tea and it was good, you could taste that it had actually tea in it, not just powder.
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Review from Jacqueline T.
11/29/2011 1 Check-in Here
I've experienced a better Fever, at other PF locations.
I also don't think they've gotten all the flavors down pat yet (wait, shouldn't all the recipes be the same - I wonder how they could even get that wrong?).
Tsk on inconsistency.
Tsk tsk, on not offering the same deals as other PF's (Holiday special $30 for 2 free drinks).
Turn up your temperature, and get the Fever right. -
Review from Sarah A.
5/30/2011 3 Check-ins Here
Pretty good bubble tea. Lots of options, customizable, and lots of add-ons as well if you aren't a fan of the regular pearls.
Not the kind of place where you want to hang out for hours (has a bit of a cafeteria vibe), but good for a quick stop for Bubble Tea. -
Review from Kimli W.
6/28/2010
Well, now I have diabetes.
I've tried quite a few bubble tea places in Vancouver, and this was by far the worst. The offerings sound delicious, but all the flavourings are sugar-loaded syrups and not fresh fruit like 99% of other bubble tea places in Vancouver. I couldn't even finish mine! It was so overwhelmingly sweet my teeth hurt after two sips!
Pearl Fever always looked busy when I went by so I thought it must be good. Now I know the truth, and will not be back. -
Review from Caroline P.
Vancouver, BC
8/17/2009
Pearl Fever is a good bubble tea place in the UBC area. I go there every couple of weeks to satisfy my Bubble Tea cravings.
Their prices are tad bit high, in comparison to most bubble tea places.
They dont have set recipes for all their drinks. (However, they do have a sign that warns customers that their drinks are not always made the same way)
But i still love their bubble tea, and will continue to be a loyal customer. Pia W. and Lauren N.'s reviews are both very true, and i completely agree with them. =) -
Review from Lauren N.
12/4/2008 1 photo
Pearl Fever is the best place on campus to get your bubbletea kicks. Located at University Village, just on the other side of Damask, Pearl Fever is a great place to meet friends after class and just enjoy some good old bubbletea.
They have a small seating area in one corner with a couple comfy couches, although these are almost always taken. There are a couple small tables, but most of the other seating consists of tall tables with bar stools. In the summer it's nice to sit outside at one of their umbrella tables.
They have a large menu with different varieties of bubbletea, but the sweet purple taro is always my favorite here. Many of their drinks are made with the sweet powder mix rather than the real fresh stuff, but it's still just as good. They also have snacks available, mainly sweets like cheesecake and tarts.
It'd be nice to see them start serving hot foods like noodles or something, making the place even more enticing for tired students at the end of the day. Still a great place to relax with friends though! -
Review from Maria W.
Vancouver, BC
9/16/2010
Good place for students to hang out and chill. I don't like bubble tea on the menu that are made from syrup...too sweet and not authentic. It may all depends on how particular you are on bubble tea. I have tried the genuine authentic original BBT that began in Taiwan so that may be why this place's BBT with syrup would not make the bar for me.
You can go there for the drinks with fresh fruits and maybe to fix your dessert cravings after studying on campus. -
Review from Reena M.
3/9/2010 12 Check-ins Here
I can't believe I never wrote a review of this place earlier! I would say this is the best places on campus to get your bubble tea fix. They use fresh fruits in their slushies and their pearls are always of good consistency. Plus, they sell yummy-looking cheesecake desserts at less than $5 per slice. I'm sure the same thing would cost around $7-8 in Death by chocolate or similar places.
But what I was really impressed with, and aim to try next time, was their loose leaf tea selection. They have a good number of Indian tea leaves as well as some Chinese. -
Review from Max M.
10/29/2009
Tasty delicious but super-feminine/Asian. I blushed every time I went in there to get my favorite drink: honey-dew melon milk w/ half pearls
If you're too embarrassed to be seen alone there like I sometimes was, they sell bubble tea in the basement of the SUB on-campus -
Review from May B.
Vancouver, BC
7/27/2010
I prefer the Surrey location to the Point Grey one but that might just be my hometown bias.
It's close to Little Tea House in the SUB basement and Well Tea around the corner in University Village so there are other options, but Pearl Fever is consistent in good quality bubble tea. However, there have been a few instances when I come in and they don't have certain ingredients available or ready for the drinks that I order, which can be frustrating.
I'm a Pearl Fever loyalist and I always choose it over the other 2 nearby options.
This location also offers cheesecake (which they don't at Surrey) but I'd pass on that and stick to the bubble tea. At almost $5/slice you're better off buying a whole cheesecake at the grocery store and having your slice plus more for later. -
Review from Pia W.
First off, I would say that I'm not exactly the bubble tea guru here, more of the "specialized" bubble tea guru -- meaning the way I judge a bubble tea place is by ordering the exact same, simple drink that I believe should be the staple item of every bubble tea place: Milk Tea with Pearls.
I grew up with my dad teaching me what good-quality milk tea and the Hong Kong-style milk tea mixed with coffee should taste like. My dad was so serious about it that every time we would go back to Hong Kong we would stock up on a particular brand of black tea, and not to mention, he has his own Italian-made espresso coffee machine at home. I would say I've developed quite a palette for milk tea. Most bubble tea places put WAY too much sugar into their milk teas, which may be used to cover up the cheap, re-used tea leaves that they use (it's a guess). But the milk tea at Pearl Fever, yes it may be still on the really sweet side, but I can taste the tea much better than the milk tea from Bubble World (which I refuse to drink bubble tea from). Another thing about Pearl Fever that I like is that you can actually tell the server to lessen the sugar, or change the milk that they use on your drink...so their milk tea on being too sweet? There's your solution.
I'm also a huge fan of tapioca (what the pearls are made of), and let me tell you:
Hard tapioca (looks like it's solidly round)= not completely cooked/it's been cooked but sat in your fridge overnight
Chewy and with a slight bounce to it tapioca (looks like it's round, solid in the centre, but a little less solid around the exterior) = perfect!
Not chewy at all, mushy-looking tapioca (looks not round at all -- defies the "pearl" effect) = overcooked tapioca (ugh!)
Unfortunately, Pearl Fever is only located in a select few locations around the Lower Mainland, so it's not exactly a huge chain like Bubble World is...closest one for me is this one at UBC. As it is located on campus, it's one of the many places that UBC students flock to on their breaks. The place is always well-kept and clean and well-lit so it's a good studying/project meeting place (for those who like to study in a relatively loud environment).
Another thing I absolutely love about Pearl Fever is their simple stamp system (I know that it's the norm to have that at bubble tea places). Get a stamp card, and you get a stamp for every drink you order that is $3.50 or over before taxes. No subcategories on getting stamps for drinks at different price levels. Just get 10 stamps on any drink that is over $3.50, and you get a free drink of your choice (I think it has to be under $4.50 before taxes? Will confirm later). My regular Milk Tea with Pearls is $3.75 before taxes, so I get a stamp pretty much every time I go! I have already got at least 4 stamp cards filled up, and I have saved it up for ordering a special treat. Like any economical consumer, I collect the stamps by buying drinks near the minimal price requirement, and then I use the filled stamp card to get a drink at the maximum price allowed. I love the Milk Tea with Pearls AND it's near the minimal price requirement...isn't that just great?
P.S. Whenever I go to eat along West Broadway...I sometimes would drive up to UBC JUST to get Milk Tea with Pearls at Pearl Fever...THAT's how good I think they are. -
Review from Renee S.
Vancouver, BC
8/24/2010
Ouch, my fillings! Maybe it was the day we went, but the sickly-sweet syrup was set on 'stun'! Decent selection, though, and nice outdoor seating shared with Vera's next door. Service was also kinda slow -- the selection was really good, though, so if you do go, ask them to go light on the syrup and you'll do OK.
