Classic Milk Tea
Full strength black tea and milk, the benchmark cup every other build is judged against.
The milk tea section holds 8 drinks priced from $6.49 to $9.49. It is also where the heaviest cups on the whole menu live: Cheese Brown Sugar Bobo Milk lands at 560 calories, which is more than four times a plain brewed tea.
The split inside the section is clean. Three plain builds at $6.49 give you tea and milk and nothing else. Three brown sugar bobo builds add syrup and warm tapioca pearls. Two premium builds, Mochi Longjing Milk Tea and Tiramisu Rich Chocolate, sit at the top on leaf quality and dessert character.
If you are ordering milk tea for the first time here, Classic Milk Tea at $6.49 and 230 calories is the benchmark. Everything else in this section is a variation on it. The full HEYTEA menu shows how it prices against the rest of the board.
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Full strength black tea and milk, the benchmark cup every other build is judged against.
Roasted oolong with milk, more toasted and less tannic than the classic black build.
The black tea pulled as a full milk latte, richer at 320 calories than the classic cup.
Brown sugar striped down the cup, warm tapioca bobo at the base, milk tea poured over.
The same bobo build on straight milk with no tea, and the only caffeine free bobo cup.
Brown sugar bobo milk under a cheese cloud cap, the highest calorie drink at 560.
Dragon well tea and milk over chewy mochi pieces, nutty rather than sugary.
Mascarpone style foam and cocoa dust over a chocolate black tea base, built as a dessert.
Sorted cheapest first. Caffeine figures are estimates based on the tea base, because the chain does not publish per drink caffeine for the US menu.
| Drink | Price | Calories | Caffeine | Tea base | Dairy |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Classic Milk Tea | $6.49 | 230 | 60 mg | Black tea | Yes |
| Oolong Milk Tea | $6.49 | 220 | 50 mg | Roasted oolong | Yes |
| Black Tea Latte | $6.49 | 320 | 60 mg | Black tea | Yes |
| Supreme Brown Sugar Bobo Milk | $7.49 | 400 | None | No tea base | Yes |
| Supreme Brown Sugar Bobo Milk Tea | $7.99 | 500 | 60 mg | Black tea | Yes |
| Cheese Brown Sugar Bobo Milk | $7.99 | 560 | None | No tea base | Yes |
| Tiramisu Rich Chocolate | $8.99 | 450 | 60 mg | Black tea | Yes |
| Mochi Longjing Milk Tea | $9.49 | 320 | 45 mg | Longjing (dragon well) green tea | Yes |
Prices shift by city. The figures above reflect the value carried by the majority of public US listings. Tell us if you see one that has moved.
Brown sugar bobo is not a flavour poured from a bottle. The pearls are cooked in syrup and go into the cup warm, with the syrup striped down the inside of the wall before the milk goes over it. That is labour and it is why those three drinks carry a $1.50 premium over the plain builds.
It is also where the calories come from. Supreme Brown Sugar Bobo Milk Tea sits at 500 calories against 230 for Classic Milk Tea. Most of that 270 calorie gap is syrup and pearls rather than milk.
The Cheese version stacks a cream cheese cap on top of all of it and reaches 560 calories, the highest number on the US board. It is a dessert sold in a drink cup, and it is worth knowing that going in rather than finding out afterwards.
Sugar level does the heaviest lifting. Milk builds carry a smaller share of their calories in syrup than fruit teas do, so the drop is less dramatic, but a 50 percent Classic Milk Tea still comes in meaningfully below the printed 230. Below 50 percent the milk starts to taste flat, so this is one section where 0 percent is rarely the right call.
Swapping the topping is the other lever. Brown sugar bobo at $1.99 adds 80 calories. Crystal boba at $0.99 adds 60 and gives a firmer chew for half the price. Fat free boba pops at $0.49 add 5 calories and still give you something to chew, which is the cheapest way to keep the texture and lose the sugar.
The one thing that does not help is asking for less ice. Less ice means more drink in the same 16 oz cup, so the calorie count goes up rather than down. It is a good deal in value terms and a bad one if calories are what you are watching. The nutrition calculator works all of it out for you.
Classic Milk Tea and Oolong Milk Tea are both $6.49, which is the cheapest way into this section. The brown sugar bobo builds run $7.49 to $7.99.
Mochi Longjing Milk Tea is the most expensive at $9.49, because it carries a premium dragon well leaf and mochi pieces.
Bobo is the chain's own spelling of boba: warm tapioca pearls cooked in brown sugar syrup and dropped into the bottom of the cup before the drink is poured.
Three drinks carry it as standard. As an add on it costs $1.99 and adds 80 calories, which makes it the most expensive topping on the counter.
Cheese Brown Sugar Bobo Milk at 560 calories and $7.99. It carries milk, brown sugar syrup, tapioca pearls and a cheese cloud cap in the same cup.
Supreme Brown Sugar Bobo Milk Tea follows at 500. Both sit far above the 230 calories of a plain Classic Milk Tea.
The Milk Tea version is built on black tea. The Milk version has no tea at all, just milk and brown sugar syrup over pearls, which makes it the only caffeine free bobo drink on the menu.
That also drops it from 500 calories to 400 and from $7.99 to $7.49.
Yes, on the plain builds. The $0.99 oat milk swap works on Classic Milk Tea, Oolong Milk Tea and Black Tea Latte, and adds about 30 calories.
It does not convert Cheese Brown Sugar Bobo Milk or Tiramisu Rich Chocolate, because both carry a cream cheese based cap that has no plant based version.
Classic Milk Tea, Oolong Milk Tea and Black Tea Latte are all available hot at the same price as iced. The bobo builds are iced only, because the pearls sit in a cold cup by design.
Hot milk tea reads sweeter than the iced version at the same sugar setting, so consider dropping one level if you usually order at 70 percent.
Dragon well green tea and milk over chewy mochi pieces, at $9.49 and 320 calories. Longjing is a roasted green tea, so it reads nutty rather than sweet.
It is the most expensive drink in this section and the one furthest from a standard American milk tea. Order it if you want the tea to be the point.