Friday, November 12, 2010

Koi Cafe @ Clementi Central

The Bubble Tea craze is back! Not too long time ago, bubble tea stalls suddenly mushroomed everywhere. Everyone was drinking it, young and old! Then just as quick, the stalls closed down. Koi Cafe from Taiwan suddenly created the craze again!

I saw this in Clementi Central last week. It has been a long time since my colleagues and I went to Clementi Central. We all know that in Clementi, there was only 2 queues that are perpetually long. The SBS Transit service 96 to NUS and the Toto booth at NTUC Fairprice. Now,we have the 3rd perpetually long queue! During lunch time, it stretches from one block to the other!

Koi Cafe

The Koi Cafe queue!
 
Koi Cafe

One of our colleague texted the rest of us and asked if we wanted Koi. She has started queuing when she texted us. Since most of us never tasted it and someone is queuing, we said yes! Most of us would not have bother queuing for it ourselves. This colleague of ours absolutely adores the bubble tea. (from Koi)

Anyone reading this is also an hard core Koi Cafe fan?

The number you see is 88 on the queue number display. I think our number was 125!

Koi Cafe

This is it! Our Koi Cafe Bubble Tea. I asked another colleague who is also a bubble tea fan what is the flavour of our tea? She said the one we had was the Classic Milk Tea with Pearls with 75% sugar level.

I was a bit confused about the sugar level. Does 75% means, the whole cup was 75% sugar? No. It's 75% of sugar used in their original recipe.

Koi Cafe

Since I did not queue and order, I asked by colleague how the process it like.
1. Queue up and wait. Have something to do, e.g. play games on your phone. It might take up to 1 hour at certain branches during peak hour.
2. When it's finally your turn, place your order and pay for it. When you are ordering, you choose the flavour you want and specify the sugar level.
3. You will then get a queue number. This is your order number. When your tea's ready, you go to the counter to collect it.



Listing of Koi Cafes in Singapore in alphabetical order. It seems for certain branches during peak hours, you can call in and order first.



Koi Cafe Ang Mo Kio
Blk 704 Ang Mo Kio Central #01-2545
Tel: +65 6459 1518

Koi Cafe Bishan
513 Bishan street 13 #01-503
Tel: +6258 1729

Koi Cafe Clementi
Blk 442 Clementi Ave 3 #01-101

Koi Cafe Illuma
201 Victoria Street #01-15 Iluma At Bugis
Tel: +6884 6817

Koi Cafe People’s Park
1 Park Road #01-16 People’s Park Complex
Tel: +65 6536 8330

Koi Cafe Marine Parade
Blk 83 Marine Parade Central #01-562
Tel: +65 6440 4869

Koi Cafe Toa Payoh
190A Toa Payoh Central #01-562
Tel: +65 6256 1169



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7 comments:

red fir said...

The queue at Bugis' Koi is like Hello Kitty queue. Luckily I don't drink bubble tea. :p

Kenny Mah said...

ONE hour for some bubble tea? But what if you get thirsty while waiting in queue... go buy some other drink? Doesn't this defeats the purpose... er? :P

Keropokman said...

ice,
have not started drinking or do not intend to start, or do not like it at all. ;-)

I just had gong cha today. another first. (coz there was no queue). ;-p


LFB,
If you get thirsty, the drink taste extra nice! It will taste extra refreshing! LOL

Ciki said...

if it was 75% of sugar i would have passed out man.. (After i run about like a energizer bunny, then the crash after that!)

i don't really understand what the fuss is all about. I don't particularly like bubble tea , so to me, to queue for it is just bananas! LOL

Keropokman said...

It's 75% of their recipe. Not 75% of the cup is sugar. LOL

It's a passing phase thingy.

Oh gosh, some health freaks recently told me something about bubble tea that makes me wanna avoid it! (Not before I try it first. hahaha)

alkanphel said...

The queue is worse than the polyclinic's queue!

debbie said...

its 70% sugar!

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