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Tea Shop 168
Categories: Food Coffee & Tea Restaurants Chinese Nightlife Coffee & Tea, Chinese, Nightlife [Edit]
505 Highway 7 ERichmond Hill, ON L3T 7T1
(905) 707-3168
- Hours:
Mon-Sun 12 pm - 2 am
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Price Range:
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$
- Attire:
- Casual
- Good for Groups:
- Yes
- Waiter Service:
- Yes
- Outdoor Seating:
- Yes
- Smoking:
- Outdoor Area/ Patio Only
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4 reviews for Tea Shop 168
4 reviews in English
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Review from Johnny L.
4/10/2012
Good bubble tea place with a wide variety of flavors.
This Tea 168 is the first I've heard of. I'm not Canadian and this was only my second time in Toronto, but it's apparently a pretty popular chain. The place is kinda small and its all "cutesy" like most bubble tea places are. Places like these live off of looking like Asian daycare centers.
The flavors list is extensive with flavors that I've never tried in bubble tea before. I've had bubble tea all around the South (United States), but I've never seen some of the flavors like I did here. Lychee and longan flavors seem like a perfect match for bubble tea places, yet Tea 168 was the only place thus far that I've seen carry it. Other flavors like cherry and mandarin orange sound just as good.
Seeing as how I was full of the Korean BBQ (in the same plaza), I find room in my hollow leg for a bubble tea. I got the longan tea and it was good. Not great. But it was just sweet enough, which was good cause some places tend to use way too much sugar. I'm not looking for diabetes, so the drink was good enough. The bits of longan on the bottom were good as well.
Overall good place. I know I only tried one thing, but you could pretty much tell by one drink how the rest are. That's all it takes. This place is good and for the prices, it's not terrible. Definitely will try other flavors if I venture 'round these parts again. -
Review from Ken K.
8/11/2008
Tea 168 is in short, Canada's verison of Quickly for Northern California USA (amongst other worldly locations).
The business name itself is as the Brits would say, taking the piss (ie pulling one's leg and more), perhaps not quite literally, into the tea. Where Quickly is often made fun of as the $tarbuck$ (or Quickbux) of tapioca milk tea (ahem pardonez moi, "BUBBLE TEA" for you Canadians), Tea 168 is less subtle with its mi$$ion vi$ion, and more in your fa$e.
How so? Well for $tarter$, 168 is pronounced Yut Luk Baht in Cantonese, or Yi Liu Bah in Mandarin. If you twist the pronounciation a bit, it sounds like Yut Loh Faht in Cantonese, or Yi Lu Fah in Mandarin.
Bottom line? Tea One $IX EIGHT is getting riche$ from you A$N bitche$.
OK that was quite tongue in cheek, but I think it is even more bold for this tea $hop!
Props to TS168 for being such a successful franchise.
Their website: http://www.teashop168....
They must be doing something right.
But back in 2003 I remember getting a honey green tea drink at this location (Commerce Gate outdoor plaza), and I'd have to say the competition did it better (who were not a chain at the time, but I'm curious if TS168 put them out of business?)
I have a thing about being able to taste the natural flavors of the tea (and letting that shine) and of course using good quality honey. Sadly most of the time these tapioca tea factories end up churning a perfect cup of WATTE (pronounced wah-tay, like a latte which is milk with a shot of coffee, but the wah-tay is water with a shot of tea). Their tapioca milk tea sadly isn't that much better. Decent for a quick fix, but then again, it is just a fix.
*Maybe all you want is a cuppa this*
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*what you really get*
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**WHAT TEA 168 REALISES**
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Review from Jennifer K.
Markham, ON
I have to say I will be quite biased with my review for Tea 168. I am NOT a fan of bubble tea or anything that is so sweet with artificial flavour when you can no longer call it a tea but a form of liquid sugar.
If I just rate Tea168 for it's tea, I would have given it 2*. But extra star is for the environment and the free WIFI access. The nice plushy sofa makes it so inviting to be a place to hang out and with free WIFI you can also post on yelp too!
I ordered the Winter Takeout specials milk tea $1.99 each with 16 different flavours to choose from includes seasame, papaya, peanut, coffee, banana, malt, coconut... I ordered Sesame Milk Tea with less sugar and it still tasted super sweet!! Maybe I am getting old.. Maybe the young people loves things that are super sweet... Next time I might have to order with NO sugar!
So be warned. If you want to be a constant sugar high, packed on 500+ calories from drinking a milk tea.. go ahead... -
Review from May B.
Vancouver, BC
7/30/2010
In my quest for good bubble tea in Ontario, my friend took me to this place right off the highway.
My first impression was that it was large. I mean, seriously. I'm used to intimate tea shops that provide for some cozy mingling amongst friends, but my friend informed me that this was the place to be at night (we were there early evening so it wasn't exactly bustling.)
I ordered a lychee rose tea with tapioca pearls, and honestly I'm surprised at the price of bubble tea in these parts. In Vancouver my drink would rarely surpass $5 and it's size is the equivalent to what is considered a 'large' in Toronto. Here a regular size still clocks in at about $4 - too much for poor little me.
But back on topic - my drink was on the sweet side but so far it's the best bubble tea I've had so far in Ontario, which is saying alot. Overall, it's a nice place; there's a large selection of teas, calpis, and smoothies, plus food items like appies, toasts, and desserts, all for a decent price. I can definitely see this being a great hangout place at night, as there's ample space set up on the patio and indoors for groups. I'd like to come back and try the place out at night.
