Pick up onigiri along with blended smoothies, teas, and aloe blends with boba, fruit-flavored popping bubbles, along with mango, aloe, coconut, and lychee jellies from the local mini-chain.

Find slushee, milky and tea versions of bubble tea with boba, fruit-flavored popping bubbles, fruit-flavored jellies, red bean and pudding. Also enjoy other new Asian desserts trends: snowcream (mounds of flavored shaved ice or puffles) and freshly-made bubble-shaped waffles topped with ice cream, fruit, and other toppings.

This Vietnamese-owned bakery serves up bubble tea in juices from blended fruit. Find flavors like black milk tea and mango.

Teas’n You is always on the leading edge of food and beverage trends. The latest seasonal special is blue matcha, which is not tea, but butterfly pea flower powder with a vibrant blue color that when combined with acid changes color from blue to purple to pink. There are also foamy dalgona drinks that were an early pandemic trend. Customize an order with a variety of toppings, including boba, jelly, fruit, and chia seeds, as well as choosing the sweetness level and amount of ice.

Simply Banh Mi serves bubble tea in flavors like white peach, watermelon, and Thai tea.

Located inside of NoMa’s Streets Market, Spot of Tea offers a variety of Insta-friendly, multicolored layered drinks. Drinks are customizable from the type of milk (cow, macadamia, or oat), sweetness level, and with or without boba. The blue jasmine features trendy butterfly pea flower with green tea and milk.

This bubble tea shop founded by Leopold Liao features a variety of milk teas, slushes, and fresh fruit teas. During the summer, try the winter melon tea, a delicate and refreshing drink, known for its cooling yin qualities.

SecreTea features a variety of toppings including boba, jelly, red bean, aloe vera and marshmallow. Each month there is a “secret tea”, which is a special flavor of tea with a unique topping such as a bunny-shaped marshmallow, or mochi.

This local mini chain has options that feature fresh fruit like passionfruit, apples, pineapples, peaches and more. Customize the sweetness, ice, foam topping, jelly, boba and chia seeds.

Arturo Mei originally started Snocream in a bus serving flavored shaved ice or snocream with a variety of toppings. Its stall at Annandale’s The Block food hall also includes bubble tea featuring many of the same flavors in the shaved ice such as taro, honeydew and lychee.