Lychee Passionfruit Bubble Tea

Iced Tea | Black

Indian, Chinese and Ceylon black tea blended with lychee and passionfruit. Created as part of the TEALEAVES World's Most Expensive Bubble Tea.

$31 USD
Lychee Overtones

Lychee
Overtones

Exotic Composition

Exotic
Composition

Bubble Tea Reimagined

Bubble Tea
Reimagined

Blending Notes
  • Aroma

    A tropical garland

  • Palate

    Lychee overtones; exotic

  • Purpose

    A sweet, decadent treat

Ingredients

Black tea, pineapple pieces, coconut flakes, pineapple, coconut, and lychee flavor

High Caffeine

BLEND NO. 7502

Sustainability

Our loose leaf is packed in tins that are recyclable and can be disposed of in your blue bin. Our tins are also food-safe and can be repurposed for many things including spices and other dried ingredients. Learn More about sustainability at TEALEAVES.

Shipping & Delivery

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Free Standard Shipping on orders over $75.00 to the Contiguous USA. Our Standard Shipping time is 5-10 business days. Our Express Shipping time is 3-5 business days.

Shake up the status quo and re-imagine bubble tea — from responsible sourcing to five-star culinary techniques.

Discover more at World's Most Expensive Bubble Tea.

About This Blend

Blended specifically for TEALEAVES’ World’s Most Expensive Bubble Tea project in collaboration with The St. Regis San Francisco’s Executive Chef Franck Desplechin for San Francisco Design Week 2017. TEALEAVES’ Master Blenders created a Lychee Passionfruit Bubble Tea blend of whole tea leaves blended specifically for ice, using an approach completely different than that for hot tea. Riffing off Chef’s elevated bubble tea recipe, called the “Boba Teashake”, and particularly the challenging salted caramel foam and passionfruit coulis, the blend had to simultaneously highlight salt with cream, while balancing tropical fruity notes. The discordance of salt, fruit, cream living in the same space as tannins and maltiness was finally solved through extensive recipe formulation, using the right lychee and passionfruit natural oils grounded in a medium-body black tea.

MAKE THE PERFECT CUP OF TEA
TEALEAVES

TEALEAVES
2 Tsp

Water

Water
8 oz

Fire

Fire
210°F

Time

Steep
2-3 Min

Iced

Pour
Over Ice

The Birth of a New World-Class Beverage: The Boba Teashake

HOW DO YOU MAKE THE ORDINARY, EXTRAORDINARY?

Called the “Boba Teashake”, the World's Most Expensive Bubble Tea project is a fun, five-star twist to a popular beverage, using the highest quality ingredients possible to create something unforgettably delicious. It's a game of balance and blending—from color + aroma + taste + texture—to let the quality of each ingredient shine where the whole becomes greater than the sum of its parts.

Created in honor of the theme for San Francisco Design Week (SFDW) 2017, “Question Everything”. The result is the birth of a new world-class beverage: the Boba Teashake. Shake up the status quo. It’s bubble tea, re-imagined.

The Criteria

LEARN HOW OUR MASTER BLENDERS GRADE AND EVALUATE BUBBLE TEA

¹ Sourcing

FOR PALATE + QUALITY CONTROL

In bubble tea, TEALEAVES blends specifically for Color + Aroma + Taste + Texture, sourcing teas and botanicals from the world’s tier-1 gardens.

² Creating

WITH METHOD + TECHNIQUE

Our iced teas have been blended specifically for ice, to reduce the chance of cloudiness, with a clear liquor.

³ Finishing

WITH PLATING + PRESENTATIONS

Bubble tea is meant to be drunk cool for optimal taste, texture and refreshment. A garnish is the finishing touch, while layering the drink not only creates visual appeal, but a layered, complex taste.

Bubble Tea Manifesto

WHAT DO WE MEAN BY "WORLD'S MOST EXPENSIVE BUBBLE TEA"?

If you came here expecting gold bars and diamond-encrusted chalices, we’re sorry to disappoint you. We’re not about the overindulgent and the exorbitant—especially when the standards of bubble tea, and tea itself, are simply not good enough.

It’s a gilded landscape of which powdered iced tea is the norm. Where backyard growers are trusted, just because they’re small.

We see it all—and make choices, every day, to do things differently. At TEALEAVES, we’re makers. With rigorous product-first beliefs, we blend our teas in small batches by hand. We keep only 1% of the leaves presented to us by the world’s tier-1 gardens. Comparable to how a skilled perfumer creates bouquets of scents, we create eclectic palates through curating quality botanicals, herbs, and fruits. We choose the very best, to make the very best.

We’ve pressed on for the past 20 years and have made like-minded friends along the way. From five-star hotels to Michelin-star chefs, we train some of the world’s most discerning palates in the art of tea, because we do things right, and we do it well.

Luxury, to us, isn’t merely about gold, silver, and shiny baubles. It’s about having the luxury of time and the privilege to practice our craft.

Plastic. Powdered. Questionable.
This is our fight. This is our luxury.
Because tea can be so much better.

We want to share with you what we know—the epitome of blending—by using bubble tea as an example. Optimizing harmony between Color + Aroma + Taste + Texture, we challenged ourselves and our expert friends in culinary to reimagine this iconic beverage.
How would it taste with unlimited time and unlimited resources?
We wanted to unearth this common beverage’s true potential to create something unforgettably delicious.


The meaning of “World’s Most Expensive Bubble Tea” is a challenge for us all. It’s not an end destination, but a forever-aspiration.

Let’s up expectations. Let’s up quality.
Let’s up the standards of bubble tea together.


SHAKE UP THE STATUS QUO.

Question everything.

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