Tea shops

Posted by Shiu-Tang Li on Dec 30, 2013

▲ Menu from a chain tea shop.

▲ Chinese menu from a chain tea shop - 1.

▲ Chinese menu from a chain tea shop - 2.

▲ Chinese menu from a chain tea shop - 3.

▲ Chain tea shop - 1

▲ Chain tea shop - 2

▲ Chain tea shop - 3

Tea shops can now be seen everywhere in Taiwan. Since the business is highly competitive, the quality of drinks they provide is very high, too.

Basically these shops offer (1) Tea (Hot / Cold) (2) Milk tea (3) Juice. The price is around $2 USD.

Taiwanese people add all kinds of flavors to these teas. For example, they add passionfruit juice to green tea (百香綠茶), add Yakult to green tea (多多綠茶), add plum juice to green tea (梅子綠茶), add peach juice to black tea (蜜桃紅茶), where these are all very common items in Taiwan.

For milk teas, they add tapioca bubbles (粉圓) to milk tea to become "bubble tea" (珍珠奶茶), which is a very famous drink originated from Taiwan. Other than putting bubbles into milk tea, they also add puddings, grass jellies (仙草), aloe extracts (蘆薈), or nata de cocos (extracts from coconuts, 椰果) into milk tea, upon customers' requests.

If you do not want anything added to your tea, these tea shops also provides very nice hot teas (black / green / Oolong). Some of Taiwan's top ten teas are available at these tea shops (凍頂茶, 文山包種茶, 東方美人茶, 松柏長青茶, 木柵鐵觀音, 三峽龍井茶, 阿里山珠露茶, 高山茶, 龍泉茶, 日月潭紅茶).

For many tea drinks they offer, you may decide how much addtional ice or sugar to be added to your drinks. Usually there're 5 different levels each for you to choose from.

▲ Passion fruit green tea. (百香綠茶) (http://buy.gomaji.com/)

▲ Pudding milk tea. (布丁奶茶) (http://www.uniquecap.com/)

Coffee shops

Posted by Shiu-Tang Li on Dec 30, 2013

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▲ My favorite chain coffee shop in Taipei, Dante coffee (http://www.ipeen.com.tw/)

▲ The front desk and the menu (http://www.ipeen.com.tw/)

▲ Inside the coffee shop - 1

▲ Inside the coffee shop - 2

▲ A good coffee shop comes with great desserts.

▲ The menu from Cama coffee (http://wmhuang.pixnet.net/)

▲ The menu from Dante coffee (http://travelkitten.pixnet.net/)

A few coffee shops also provides various options of coffee beans. For example, customers may choose from the menu (Jamaican) Blue Mountain Coffee, (Sumatra) Mandheling Coffee (bitter), Brazilian Coffee (moderate), or Kenya AA Coffee (sour).

Convenience stores

Posted by Shiu-Tang Li on Dec 30, 2013

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▲ All kinds of drinks from the 7-Eleven in Taiwan - 1 (http://taipei543.com/)

▲ All kinds of drinks from the 7-Eleven in Taiwan - 2 (http://taiwancost.blogspot.com/)

Many types of drinks are available in convenience stores. For milks, there're chocolate milks, papaya milks, apple milks, melon milks, banana milks, and more; there're several soy milk options, and rice peanut milk; for juices, there're veggie juice, tomato juice, pomegranate juice, orange juice, grape juice, lemon juice, asparagus juice, cranberry juice; there're several iced coffee selections; for teas, there're lemon black tea, black tea, Oolong tea, green tea; and all kinds of milk teas.

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