Kung Fu Tea

I have never had a bad experience at any KFT location, so they must be using a very specific system. My honey green tea was super sweet (as expected) but had I not been so distracted at the time, I would have cut my sugar — that customization of sugar and ice is something I really appreciate. My bf liked his mango green tea and our friend liked the strawberry slush. The only downside was that the wait was longer than expected (possibly due to training new staff). I’ll be back when I’m in the area again.
PS: no smell that some previous reviewers mentioned.

2^nd time here and ordered the taro slush. Amazing taro flavor with just enough sweetness. My husband ordered the taro milk tea and mine definitely had more flavor. Fast service and great selection. This place is starting to become my favorite!

I came here around 8:30pm on a Monday and the wait for the bubble tea was probably about 3 – 5 minutes. I got the green tea-​flavored milk tea with boba and you can definitely taste the green tea. The boba was very sweet and fresh, despite the fact that they were closing up very soon. Would definitely come back every once in a while though, because it’s a bit pricey.

This place is absolutely amazing and makes all the competing boba shops in the area pale in comparison. When I had heard that KFT had expanded out of major city areas into Edison, NJ, I could not have been more excited, considering the aforementioned lack of good boba in the area.
Despite the popularity of the location, this particular store is extremely efficient, most likely adapting fast-​paced, metropolis techniques to the suburbs. Though the line is almost always long, there is never any confusion to the orders, as they assign you a number per order. To prevent thefts, they call the number and exchange you the boba for your receipt. In addition, if you peak behind the counter (where they are making the boba tea), the process resembles and assembly line. Some, however, might confuse this efficiency with lack of service.
Efficiency, however, is not the main draw of the place. Instead, it is the flavor of both the tea and tapioca. One of the main indicators of good boba is the quality of the tapioca pearls and how it complements the tea flavor. To start, the tapioca is extremely fresh. When you receive your drink, the pearls are still warm. Furthermore, they are both firm and not clumped together, showing that the store isn’t trying to push unwashed or nearly expiring tapioca to its customers. When you finally taste the tapioca, there’s this quality of almost a fresh roast and honey-​infused taste — not plasticky like some of its other competitors. Lastly, KFT is very generous about the amount of boba it provides.
Additionally, the tea flavor is just as delicious. Commonly, many stores end up diluting the flavor, providing an almost watered-​down aspect. In contrast, the flavor here is bold, sweet and refreshing. (This may also be a good time to note that if you don’t love sweet drinks, you might not enjoy the tea as much.) Though I have only tried the taro and almond milk teas, my friends who have gotten other flavors thoroughly enjoyed their boba as well.
Finally, the tea is extremely fairly priced. While other reviews might complain it’s a bit high, charging a margin of $ 0.50 more is more than justified when the location is providing some of the better tea in the area. For those who are comparing its price to other states, that’s a completely moot point — property tax and cost of living in NJ is much higher in comparison to other areas. I, too, would love it if food and drinks were as inexpensive as in Ann Arbor, but it’s a fallacy to assume it would be.
My only gripe is that the menu, though extensive, doesn’t provide some flavors I’m used to (e.g. honeydew milk, strawberry milk).

Kung Fu Tea is my favorite bubble tea place in Chinatown NYC and when I saw it in NJ, I couldn’t be more than excited! Located at the H-​Mart Plaza in Edison, this place can get packed! And as you know, finding a parking spot in that lot on the weekends can also be a challenge. Upon walking in, expect to see a line. However, the line moves relatively quickly, thank goodness!
I always get the Taro bubble tea without tapioca from KFT. My first mistake when I came to this location was that when I ordered my drink, I forgot to tell them I only wanted a little bit of sugar (they have different percentages of how much sugar to put in your drink). My drink was so sweet it was almost unbearable. My second time here, I asked for very little sugar and I still thought it was too sweet. Maybe I’m just getting old but I don’t enjoy sugar as much as I used to. I’m not sure if they can do any less than they did but I guess I’ll find out next time. But in my opinion, there should be a huge difference between full sugar vs 30% sugar. I can definitely tell the difference in the Chinatown NYC location, not so much here in this location unfortunately. If you don’t like tapioca like me in your bubble tea, you can always get pudding, jelly or red bean in your drink.
Even though I don’t like this location as much as the one in Chinatown NYC, it’s still a solid spot and will be my go to spot if I’m in the area. Seating is limited and there’s nothing too special about the ambiance either. However, I do love the quick service and the bubble tea is good — they mix it very well, thanks to their awesome machines.

BF and I frequent this boba joint whenever we’re near because they simply have the best boba near Rutgers.
The wait can be really long during weekends so beware of that and sometimes they run out of boba, but that’s fine for me.
The prices are pretty high for boba especially since I’m from California and boba is typically $ 3 and not $ 5 lol.
Anyways, we always get the taro slush and it comes out perfect every time. Never too sweet or bland.

Despite that I love their woolong milk tea, thought the actual tea taste is very strong and authentic. Few times when I walked in when the store just opened, the overwhelm bathroom smell was overpowering which kind of throw me off from buying their tea. The bathroom smell was coming from they probably just mopped the floor from re-​using using dirty water to clean the floor.
Lastly, there was a dead fly inside of my tea (picture uploaded in Unilocal for proof). The fly was mixing with the bubbles. Anyhow, although I love the taste of their tea, but I am concern about their sanitization of the entire facility and the kitchen.

There’s so many variety of flavors. Boo Boo and I usually get the regualr black tea of taro flavor. It’s a good addition to this strip mall. wish I was smart enough to open a bubble tea place here.

It was pretty busy on Sunday night, but we were still able to get a table and our 3 drinks were out within 10 minutes. I enjoyed my hot milk green tea with bubble and nata jelly. There were like 10 people working behind the counter, but they should have someone cleaning the seating area — tables were a tad dirty. Overall, good experience, good prices, and tasty bubble tea. I like that you can customize your sweetness level. It would be really nice if we could customize what kind of milk (soy milk, almond milk, etc).

Hadn’t had KFT since I lived in NY, so it was nice they opened a location near home for me. I’m not the biggest fan of bubble tea, and I hardly ever crave it. With that being said, I love the bubble tea at KFT. You can customize everything, from the ice, to the sugar, to additional «toppings» you can include in your drink!
I got the milk taro tea with less sugar, bubbles, and pudding, and it was the perfect combination of everything I could want in a btea drink. I’ll def be returning, and highly recommend it to those who haven’t tried it yet.

Have been to Kung Fu Tea multiple times in the city and usually have no problems, but when I came to the Edison location recently it was like a completely different place. Understandably, the place is new and it seems they are still getting their bearings on how to deal with the massive influx of people who need their Kung Fu Tea fix. However, 30 minutes is much too long to wait on 2 drinks.
The place was pure chaos and while I counted about 10 people working behind the counter it was clear they were still understaffed and were getting flustered trying to keep up. I’m hoping the operation gets smoother over time, since it’s in such a convenient location next to H-​Mart. The drinks themselves were okay, but it was hard for us to enjoy them after going through that wait.

The first time I came here, it was recently opened, but I didn’t bother ordering anything because the overwhelming scent of sulfur completely ruined the experience. Anyways I came back today, about a month later, and it still looks newly opened and no longer smells! I like how you can adjus TV the amount of sugar in the drinks. That said the fruity drinks are decent and often made poorly. I recommend the milk green tea!

I’m usually not too keen on giving props to establishments with large markups, which is what the bubble tea, milk shake, liquor license businesses usually have for themselves. I prefer high volume, good quality places that try to make an honest profit.
Despite this, I loved KFT when I finally got to try it. I braved the long lines and realized there is a reason for them.
The atmosphere was nice if a bit cramped because of how packed it was. Despite that I still felt a cool vibe and energy there, especially for a Chinese/​Taiwanese joint in jersey, which is usually a depressing affair.
I felt like I was transported to a suburb of Vancouver or Los Angeles. Lots of hip young customers as well as workers.
The product was good too — the taro bubble tea I had was very good. You can actually taste the brewed tea inside and the flavor was delicious. Not too filmy or syrupy.
I actually did a unexpected taste test comparison since my wife got a taro bubble tea from nearby Paris Baguette while out buying milk bread there. Both were good but to me, subjectively speaking, the KFT tea won the comparo. Less syrupy and more tea flavor. Cheaper too by 75 cents or so.

Quick service even when crowded. The menu is too big though, and the staff is rough with English.
Very big plus on the fact that you can customise with no ice/​little sugar/​substitute bubbles for something else.
Overall flavor about normal. Good presentation. The bubbles are top notch and the jelly is very good.

This shop is in the same area as H-​Mart with some other Korean shops. They do have a nice selection of flavors and options for bubble tea. This is a stand alone store not a mall kiosk so we expect better service than what we got. First, we got the cashier that seem to be very annoyed and rushing us to select our drinks. Maybe she had somewhere to go? After we decided on our drinks, there was a very long line to get our order. Why? They only have 2 blenders for the whole store. There was one order with 4 drinks I seen leave. Service was so slow people were complaining and their excused was they have two blenders.
After we got the drinks they messed up one of our orders. They put in beans in the drink that we did not ask for. We checked the receipt and got charged for it. My wife was upset that we just gave up and did not want to wait for a new drink. This place needs some improvement to service their customers better.

Located in the strip in korean town restaurants and H Mart supermarket in Edition, I was so happy to see Kung Fu Tea opening.
Pros: parking, there’s seatings inside, several chairs and tables and two long black sofas as soon as you enter.
Cons: overpriced in Edison when the average bubble teas are $ 4.50 for a large, rude cashier and clumsy when ringing up orders so check your receipt to make sure it’s what you ordered. I ordered matcha green tea with bubbles, what the cashier rung was match green tea with red bean and bubbles. Smh. The service is extremely slow. There were many people waiting for their drinks too and were complaining. I overheard the employee said they have only two blenders. Yes, ladies and gents, that’s two blenders. This is not a stand at the mall for crying out loud! If you’re going to have a store business, you better have more than 4 blenders. At least, that’s what Jamba Juice has at their stand.
Overall, I wasn’t impress with my drink. I didn’t notice the wrong order until I left the place, RATS!

The bubble tea here is still delicious and they give you options if you are not a sweet tooth like me, but it gets packed very quickly. Since it gets packed fast, the services will be a tad slow. However, to make a mistake with just regular milk tea with boba twice… smh.

I have to say they have the best bubble tea in town! The selection of different teas and slushes is extensive! I really loved how I was able to customize my drinks: 50% less sugar, no ice, no bobba etc. As far as the flavor goes, this place is usually pretty good and consistent. I’ve been enjoying their taro milk tea with bubble, Oreo milk tea, and Oolong bubble tea. They have good fragrance and good amount of caffeine! Also, the tapioca/​bubbles and even the herbal jellies are best I’ve had in a long time — loved the texture, and it’s chewiness.
However, I was bit disappointed with the extremely-​slow service. It took more than 10 minutes for 3 teas to be served. I was also frustrated when they gave me a frown with no apology after messing up my orders.

Was very excited to see this place open. First impressions… As soon a you walk though the door, it smells like a nyc subway station bathroom! I thought they had an issue with plumbing but a week and a half later, I came back and the same smell greets you as you enter. Smell aside, it is large space for café, clean, and friendly staff.
The bubble tea here is good, but not the best I’ve had. They allow you to customize the drinks the way you like it: hot, cold, little Ice, more ice, less sugar (percent) /​no sugar, boba, pudding, herbal jelly, etc. So, even if you don’t like the way they make it you can still have it close to the way you like it. I like bubble tea but the boba here is too sweet and too chewy. Today I ordered tea + 50% level sugar + boba + pudding + herbal jelly. Next time I come back, I’ll just get the tea, regular ice, 0 sugar, pudding, and herbal jelly. Too sweet for my taste and too much chewing involved.
For those who don’t want tea, because you are adverse to caffeine or have kids, they have yogurt, milk, juice based drinks and you can also add the boba and others at an additional cost.
Once they fix the smell, I’ll increase my rating to a 4, and may actually sit there to drink my purchase.

As a KFT loyal customer, this place always put a big smile on my face after.
Their tea taste much better than all brands in the market today.
Love it !