SunTea 新作的茶: Bubble Tea in North Burnaby

SunTea is now open in North Burnaby at Kensington Plaza. They specialize in fruit tea, milk tea, dorayaki, and floss cake. Currently, they are in their soft opening phase but we decided to check it out as we live a block away. They have other locations in BC, but I haven’t been to any other of their locations.

They do have 20% off the whole menu during the soft opening, which is nice.

Interior

The space is small, there there really isn’t too much room to social distance as people are either drinking by the window, ordering, or waiting for their drinks. We did observe all the staff wearing masks, which is good.

Strawberry Frappe

The strawberry frappe is made with fresh strawberries, strawberry slush, whipped cream and cake pieces. It did have a lot of strawberry, so that was nice. The drink was decent, but it didn’t taste outstanding. Just pretty average.

Purple Sticky Rice & Tofu Jelly Milk Tea

I ordered the regular size and it has layers of their purple rice and tofu in the milk tea. The purple rice really wasn’t sticky at all, but it added a nice texture to the drink and the I liked the slight sweetness of the tofu jelly.

It was good and I would get this again.

Blueberry Cream Cheese Dorayaki

The dorayaki was filled with lots of cream cheese and blueberry. Pretty good, but it definitely wasn’t cheap at just under $6 regular price.

The filled was good, but we did feel the pancake was very dry.

Purple Yam Dorayaki

Love the look of the purple yam dorayaki. It doesn’t fall apart and it’s very firm. It has a delicious filling which isn’t too sweet, but we also felt the pancake was dry as well.

Final Thoughts

They are still in their soft opening phase, so they definitely have some things to improve on. I did get a weird vibe when ordering from the staff. Even though I was standing right in front of them to order, they were busy looking at their phone to notice I was trying to order. I had to wave a few times to get their attention.

The drinks are dorayaki can be a hit and miss, but the area definitely needed another bubble tea shop. There’s 3 coffee shops, but no bubble tea shop until now. It’s not my favourite bubble tea shop, but I’ll come here out of convenience. I would get the Purple Sticky Rice & Tofu Jelly Milk Tea again.

Address:
6528 Hastings St, Burnaby, BC

Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/SunteaBC/