Tmix

Tmix is another new player in the Emporium Shopping Centre. Their informative menu is split into milk tea, fruit tea, fruit chiller with cream cheese, blended ice drinks and cheese tea. Sometimes pearls are included in the base price of the drink so you don’t have to pay extra – it pays to read through the ingredients of each one. They also do coffee and doughnuts in exciting flavours like Thai milk tea, black forest, pandan coconut, matcha, and popcorn caramel. A classic yet left-of-centre order any bubble tea lover has to try at least once is the taro milk tea or latte. Taro is a root vegetable, most often purple in colour and used in various Asian dishes and desserts. The texture is kind of starchy, similar to potato, and the unique taste isn’t comparable to anything else but is reminiscent of vanilla, nuts, sweet potato and flowers (it contains multitudes). At Tmix, the Taro Latte is consistently in the top five most popular drinks, and comes with pearls. It’s made with taro paste/puree and fresh milk, which makes for a heavenly thickshake texture. Tmix’s pearls are excellent, similar to Gong Cha’s but perhaps a tad softer and sweeter. There’s a little more seating here than most bubble tea shops, but if it’s packed, you can just wander around the corner to the Café Court and its plentiful seating spaces.