Ceylon Milk Tea – Sunright Tea Studio

Happy New Year! What better way to start off the new year than with boba? Typically people drink champagne, but because I’m not legal yet, and also my mom and I have no interest in alcohol, we’re replacing alcoholic bubbles with milk tea bubbles. Ey, I’m pretty proud of that analogy.

Again, at first we tried to order from 7 Leaves because we love using the app to order and my mom figured my sister would like a drink from there, but they still don’t have boba! Wild. So thinking along the lines of other places with online ordering, is Sunright. Today, they do have the drink that my sister gets, so Sunright it is. Starting the new year off SunRight, am I right? 😛

My thought process for the drink items left that I want to try are the Matcha drinks, which consist of the Matcha Milk Tea (which I’ve had, just not written a post yet), the Strawberry Matcha, the Matcha Oolong, and the Matcha frostie, their cheese foam teas, their Ceylon milk tea, and maybe their Strawberry Jasmine. I probably should start alternating Matcha drinks because there’s quite a few, but today I wanted a standard milk tea. Ceylon Milk Tea it is! Technically, it’s not a drink to “try”, since the Sunright Boba Milk Tea is made with Ceylon Milk Tea and brown sugar boba, but since it’s a separate menu item, I figured why not write a post about it. Does that qualify the Panda Milk Tea for a post? Technically yes, but I think instead of the total amount of brown sugar and honey boba equalling the same as an order of brown sugar boba, it’s the same amount of each, so there’s a lot of toppings and not as much drink. We shall see.

I like their signature Sunright Boba Milk Tea, so I’m pretty sure the plain one isn’t that different. While I’m at it, I’m definitely not getting it plain, so I’m adding honey boba for comparison. Plus, theoretically honey boba should be slightly less bad for your health since honey is a natural sugar right… not that it should entirely matter when consuming a sugary drink like boba. Is it technically more expensive? Yes, because the Sunright Boba Milk Tea costs the same as the Ceylon Milk Tea, but includes boba, but additional add-ons for the Ceylon Milk Tea cost extra. Does it matter? Normally to me it does, but hey, content, so today, maybe not as much.

No surprises, it tastes like a really good cup of milk tea, I guess Ceylon tea to be exact, ha! Sunright has such good quality drinks and milk teas, and combined with such good drink consistency, I can never go wrong with a milk tea option. Obviously, it tastes like the Sunright Milk Tea: a little creamy, little toasty, nice classic milk tea taste. The boba is real good too, very soft, chewy and bouncy, and because the drink itself has a lot of flavor already, I don’t entirely mind the boba having less flavor. If I spend some time chewing and thinking about the boba though, I do taste a little of that original honey boba flavor that I loved before. A slightly better, health-conscious-ish option to the Sunright Boba Milk Tea to make you feel slightly less guilty, ha! The downside to the holiday cup though is that I can’t see the drink level or amount of boba left on the side at a glance.

On the bright side, the holiday paper cup is super cute, and whoever made my drink today was really nice to write Happy New Year on the side too! A huge shout out to everyone working over the holiday season! Weirdly enough, my mom, who got the Sunright Boba Milk Tea, also got a holiday cup, but my sister, who got the Strawberry Frostie, got the normal plastic cup. Is it a drink thing or a barista thing? We may never know…

Details: Ceylon Milk Tea; 50% Sugar; No ice; with house milk; with honey boba; from Sunright Tea Studio (Irvine, Jeffrey)