tea/coffee: i recommend ORANGE TEA MANIA

ORANGE TEA MANIA
or “JIU ZHI GONG FANG”
No. 94, Ming Shen E. Road, Sec 4
(02) 2715-1919

website: orangetea.com.tw

$

Kid friendliness: lots of fun drinks but be careful of the jellies and choking hazards

Visit reviewed: 12/18/2008

Shortly after I spotted the bright Orange Tea Mania sign near my grandma’s house, I started seeing them everywhere. Is it a new chain that is expanding quickly around the city, or have I just been missing it until now? Offering a long list of teas and fruity drinks at ultra affordable prices (all around NT$35), Orange Mania takes its own spin it by offering a glut of jellies and even fresh passion fruit seeds. The Chinese name- “gong fang”- roughly translated could mean “factory,” but google translated it as “mania” so that’s what I’m going with- although both could work. Does anyone know for sure otherwise?

They make it easy for you by listing their top 10 drinks (well, in Chinese) as well as a huge picture of drink #1- the QQ fresh passion fruit tea, which has boba, coconut jelly and fresh edible passion fruit seeds in a passion fruit tea. It’s a bit sweet and chewy and a great treat on a hot day if you’re like me and love that you can get this sort of thing for US$1. The passionfruit seeds are sweet and tart and a bit crunchy and slimy (though you can’t tell as much inside the drink), so that part may be a love it or hate it sort of thing. If you’re more traditional, then you can stick to the “boba nai cha” or boba milk tea or other teas.

OTHER LOCATIONS (roughly translated from website)
No. 156, San Ming Road
(02) 2746-7979

No. 806, Bade Rd, Sec 4
at Sungshan Railway Station
(02) 2653-0033

No. 171, Mingquan E Road
(02) 2546-6768

Yanji shop
No. 169, Yanji St (Ren Ai Road, Sec 4)
(02) 2731-5500

No. 53-3, Da-an Road, Sec 1 (Chunghsiao East Road 4)
(02) 2777-1866

No. 152, Fuxing South Road, Sec 2
(02) 2703-6363

No. 3, Linjiang St. (Tonghua Night Market)
(02) 2700-6767

No. 387, Jhuangjing (near the World Trade Organization)
(02) 2345-1003

No. 55, Songlong Road
(02) 8787-0100