BAKO TEA HOUSE

31 E Macarthur Cres #106b, Santa Ana

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Lauren Dang

Tasty boba drinks! 🧋🤎

The menu offers a pretty wide range of teas and flavors. Everything seemed good and the prices were reasonable considering the quality presented!

* Passionfruit Green Tea: 8/10 - good flavor but they aren't able to remove the passionfruit seeds which is annoying
* Lychee Oolong Tea: 9/10 - nice balance of sweet and tart
* Tapioca Boba (Topping): 9/10 - soft and chewy

The shop itself is not super tiny, but also not very spacious either. They offer some tables and chairs inside as well as a couple outside. It's located in this apartment area which is a bit weird, but there were plenty of parking spots and underground parking. The workers were nice, but they seemed to be pretty backed up. We noticed a bunch of drinks just sitting on the counter waiting for the worker to give them out.

Highly recommend checking them out if you're ever in the area! 😊

lgriller

Tea was enjoyable but everything we go, they have no boba. Reason for the 1 star was employee Hayden was very disrespectful and rude.

Iva Kralova

Little disappointed about the menu, most of the tea’s you can’t choose a sweetness, base is 25% sweet. The front stuff is not super welcoming so this will not brings you back again…

Anh Tran

Place looks cute, but the tea wasn’t giving. The lychee oolong was underwhelming. It felt like zero sugar when it was supposed to be full sweetness.

Ben Jams

It's an artisan tea shop that focuses more on quality tea than desserty, trendy stuff.

The teas are all amazing and you really get to taste the richness and slight bitterness of all the flavors. I'd recommend 25% sweetness if you're here for the tea flavor.

The servers I've usually gotten are quite stand offish and not super friendly but still polite. Wish I could get some more conversation about recommended items and options and such.

Drinks: 9/10
Atmosphere: 7/10
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Value: 7/10

Phoebe L

1st time customer ordered grapefruit green tea, good balance of tea taste and fruit flavors, refreshing and good service

Jie Gong

Great small boba shop packed with customers on a Saturday afternoon. The server recommended passion fruit green team and I went for 50% sweetness (lowest level). The tea tastes extremely refreshing and full of real flavor while not overall sweet. Definitely worth the hype and wait and I would try other flavors next time!

Kd Pham

This has become one of our regular stops in LA .They have a little bit of everything to satisfy everyone. If you're into the sweet and fruity teas, they have it. If you want ceremonial grade matcha, they got you. They uses Strauss dairy. They also serve higher quality of teas and will brew it for you just the way you want. Definitely check it out if you're in the area

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Faraz Asad

nice aesthetics but poor substance. drinks are not as strong and over-iced. Minimal matcha, avoid frap.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 3

Service: 5

Krystal Wallinger

Love the early gray milk tea! I go to the salon next to it and the ladies always rave about this place. I finally tried it. I've been 3 times and it's ALWAYS busy. The service is friendly and fast. I need to try something other than the earl gray but it's hard when it taste so good.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Laura

Excellent boba shop! All drinks are made with real milk, high quality tea, and real fruits.
- drinks come in a large, 24 oz size
- generous topping portion
- can do half portion of two different toppings at no additional cost
- cashier was really patient about describing the different teas and making recommendations

Tried the peachy oolong, lychee oolong, kumquat lemon green tea, phoenix oolong tea latte, rose guanyin tea latte, and roasted oolong tea latte. Enjoyed all of them, but my favorites were the Phoenix oolong and the peachy oolong.

Parking: Limited parking lot parking, but there's a garage with retail parking, so we never had issues finding a spot. You can also preorder online if you prefer to do a quick pick up.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Naomi Lee

Amazing tea lattes!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Jess Liu

Taste amazing! So far the best boba tea I had in California.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Roger W.

Phoenix Ooling is very good. It’s an amazing Classic style Milk Tea. 100% for me is perfect. Not too sweet.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Huyen Kay

Good tea, the flavors are distinct for each type of tea. I normally don't remember to take pictures of my food & drink, it has good-looking tea cup ?

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

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