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Are you ready to brave the long lines again? Bangkok’s famous Brown Sugar Bubble Tea shop has just arrived in Metro Manila and it looks too good to drink! We’ve got the low-down on this latest milk tea venture and here’s what you need to know:

Originating from Thailand, Fire Tiger by Seoulcial Club is an excitingly new boba shop in Bangkok that’s taking it up a notch with their unique flavors and a special crème brûlée topping. The good news? Starting February 25, you can now get their tiger-striped Brown Sugar Boba at Bonifacio High Street.

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If you don’t know what to get, here are the four (4) fantastic flavors you can choose from: (1) the Fire Tiger Milk Tea. This knockout of a drink is made of crème brûlée topped with brown sugar, black sugar syrup, milk tea, black sugar boba, and brown sugar jelly.

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Add some Crispy Black Sugar into the mix and you get one of their best-sellers, (2) The Crown.

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You can even do without the milk tea and get their (3) Fire Tiger Milk, which uses mixed milk instead of milk tea!

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Into cheese foam? (4) The Majesty serves a delicious creme cheese topping with crispy cheese on top. It also includes mixed milk, black sugar syrup, pudding, and black sugar boba.

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Fire Tiger Milk Tea with crispy brown sugar
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Open up! Get your tiger-striped Brown Sugar Milk Tea from Fire Tiger’s gigantic tiger head’s mouth. Sounds worth the hype, doesn’t it? Make your way to B2 in Bonifacio High Street now to get a sip of these flamboyant boba drinks! We’re not kidding when we say Fire Tiger’s drinks are prettier than ever.

Let us know which one you’re planning to try! For more information on the Bangkok franchise, check out Fire Tiger by Seoulcial Club’s Facebook page and Instagram account.

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Not ready to brave the long lines? In the meantime, why not make some noise for these milk tea shops that are bringing the house down with their own Brown Sugar recipes!

Brown Sugar Milk Tea

Brown Sugar Milk Tea has become an explosive hit in the Philippines, and we have Taiwan to thank for that. The milk tea concoction doused with a generous shot of sweet brown sugar syrup and tapioca pearls has gathered incredible fanfare that is only getting bigger and better.

Here’s a list of the Philippines’ finest milk tea shops where you can get a delicious cup of this huge milk tea trend! We’ve made sure to include a range of Brown Sugar milk tea selections for you to consider.

Tea 18 – Raw Sugar Bubble Fresh Milk Tea

Tea 18 proves that milk tea doesn’t have to be a guilty pleasure. With popular branches in Taiwan, China, and Hong Kong, Tea 18 has successfully created a healthier milk tea line that uses less sugar but still boasts strong and sweet flavors.

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Fun fact: You can get Buy 1 Get 1 Mix-and-Match Milk Tea for only ₱130. Choose from Four Seasons Oolong Tea, Honey Milk Tea, Taiwan Classic Bubble Milk Tea, Pudding Milk Tea, Mango Oolong Tea, and Kumquat Lemon Tea with Aiyu Jelly.

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G/F The Stratosphere, 136 Valero St
(0917) 127-6688

Serenitea – Brown Sugar Series

Serenitea is a homegrown bubble tea brand known for their strong brews and flavor selections. They have one of the widest tea menus in the country, offering fruit, milk, mixed, and specialty tea drinks all loved by Filipinos.

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Yi Fang Taiwan Fruit Tea – Brown Sugar Pearl Series

Yi Fang Taiwan Fruit Tea offers a wide array of freshly-made premium tea drinks. They specialise in fruit teas using real fruit. They also serve sugarcane drinks, tea, lattes, and other specialty and limited-edition drinks.

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Chatime – Marble Collection

Chatime is an international bubble tea chain with over 600 stores and are constantly creating new flavours to excite their loyal customers.

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Happy Lemon – Milk Tiger

One of the first milk tea spots in the metro, Happy Lemon originated in Taipei and has since been giving us a wide variety of drinks from matcha, milo, and many more.

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Tiger Sugar – Brown Sugar Boba, Tea Latte, and Pearl Series

One of the most awaited milk tea spots from Taiwan to hit the country, Tiger Sugar, offers a handful of brown sugar infused drinks. They’re popularly known for their Brown Sugar Boba that gives their drinks the signature tiger stripes.

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Chachago – Brown Sugar Series

A popular milk tea chain in Taiwan and Vietnam, Chachago has finally opened in Manila. They have a lot of tea variants from fruit teas, milk tea, matcha, and many more!

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Nomu Tea & Coffee – Tiger Brown Sugar

Nomu is a small and minimalist coffee shop located inside the UP Campus serving students and visitors classic milk tea flavours and coffee.

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Get Buy 1 Get 1 King Milk Tea and other flavors for only P200 P100!

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Epsilon Chi Center, Balagtas St., Diliman, Quezon City

Black Scoop Café – Brown Sugar Latte Series

From the sweet-toothed geniuses behind Infinitea comes Black Scoop Cafe, your next favourite dessert stop! Serving up soft serve innovations such as milk tea ice cream and the like, we dare you to resist these creatively addictive flavors!

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Moonleaf Tea Shop – Tiger Moon Brown Sugar Series

Moonleaf is a homegrown brand with that offers a number of tea-infused drinks. Their tea leaves are sourced all the way from Taiwan and are brewed, steeped, and served the authentic Taiwanese way.

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Xing Fu Tang – Brown Sugar Boba Milk

A popular milk tea chain from Taiwan, Xing Fu Tang is best known for their brown sugar boba. They’re a relatively new brand (January 2018) but have since expanded internationally and finally opened shop in the country!

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Gong Cha – Brown Sugar Milk Tea

Gong Cha serves milk tea, fruit juices, ice smoothies, brewed tea, chocolate beverages, and coffee. There are over 170 outlets worldwide spreading from Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Macau, China, Malaysia and the Philippines.

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Presotea – Okinawa Brown Sugar Milk Tea

More than just another milk tea chain from Taiwan, Presotea serves up a host of must-try drinks and flavors for true tea lovers. From lattes to fruit juices to the classic milk tea, enjoy their signature brewed-to-order drinks brewed with premium espresso machines for a satisfying experience you won’t forget!

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Oh My Tea – Golden Sugar Series

A homegrown brand with their first branch in Maginhawa, Oh My Tea serves both Taiwanese milk tea and Thai milk tea. They’re continually growing their already expansive menu and have since brought back their brown sugar drinks in their Golden Sugar Series.

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111 Maginhawa St., Diliman, Quezon City
(02) 901-9757

Ten Ren’s Tea – Brown Sugar Pearl Tea Latte

Ten Ren’s Tea is among the oldest tea shops, they began in 1953 and has since expanded all over the world. Their freshly brewed and high quality teas are always sought after and they’ve finally opened shop in the country for us to enjoy.

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Fun facts about our favourite drink

Can’t get enough of milk tea? Neither can we! Here are a few interesting things on our favourite drink and a short guide to boba drinks.

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More Milk Tea Shops!

Have other milk tea cravings besides brown sugar? Here are a few other milk tea places for you to enjoy!

Teaza – multiple branches

Teaza is a little tea cafe in that has a lot to offer. Their variety of milk teas, tea lattes, fruit teas, hot teas, and rock salt & cheese drinks will surely have any tea craving satisfied.

Fun fact: with Booky, you can get Buy 1 Get 1 mix-and-match combination of Classic Milk tea and Cookies and Cream Milk Tea for only ₱90!
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Coco Fresh Tea & Juice – multiple branches

CoCo Fresh Tea & Juice has been around for a while but only recently did they see a surge in customers lining up, sometimes for hours, just to get their hands on the famed Panda Milk Tea. CoCo has made a name for themselves as the country’s current favourite milk tea.

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Infinitea – multiple branches

Infinitea is all about freshly brewed teas mixed with your absolute favorite flavors. Their selection consists of Milk Tea, Pearl Milk Tea, Slush Tea, Fruit Tea, Original, and more.

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Bubba Lab Café – Marikina

A third-wave neighbourhood cafe, Bubba Lab offers milk tea and other drinks with lab apparatuses. They’re a homegrown brand that also holds events and promotes local artists in their café.

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Ext B, C&B Circle Mall, Liwasang Kalayaan Avenue, Marikina
(02) 682-0408

Macao Imperial Tea – multiple branches

Another milk tea place that’s now open in the metro, get your fill of different flavors of milk tea, tea, coffee, and cream cheese based drinks at Macao Imperial Tea. 

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Sharetea – multiple branches

Hailing from Taiwan, Sharetea offers a wide variety of milk tea, natural fruit tea, and brewed tea drinks as well as some light snacks. 

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Enjoy Buy 1 Get 1 Wintermelon Milktea and other flavors for P100 or less!

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Dakasi – multiple branches

Dakasi offers milk tea, bubble tea, fruit tea, cakes, and other snacks. Milk tea lovers, you’re in for a treat!

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Tokyo Bubble Tea – multiple branches

Tokyo Bubble Tea is a fun, casual Japanese-fusion chain that puts playful twists on your favourite Japanese dishes and drinks. Experience a unique combination of flavours and textures that you can only find at Tokyo Bubble Tea.

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Chemistea – multiple branches

At Chemistea, you won’t only experience our usual go-to milk tea drinks but you can even customise your very own!

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Brown Cafe – BGC

Originating in Thailand, Brown Cafe offers their acclaimed collagen-infused bubble, which as the name implies, promotes healthy skin. It’ll have you dropping that skin care routine and sipping on some of Brown Cafe’s tastiest milk tea selections.

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G/F Serendra, 11th Ave, Fort Bonifacio, Taguig

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