Tuttimelon

I was pleasantly surprised with this place. I am staying at a hotel in the area and had passed this place for a couple days before finally stopping in. They have a great combo of a milk tea and popcorn chicken for 6 or 7 dollars. I chose a toffee milk tea, and it was the perfect amount of sweet!
Also, the popcorn chicken was amazing! Perfectly seasoned with a dip that is just the right amount of spicy. And the amount of chicken you get is incredible, I couldn’t even finish it all. I would recommend splitting it with a friend. :)

Bubble Guy price for Quickly quality drinks = lame, expensive drinks. Watery with very little tea and cream flavor. Toppings look old and gross. Definitely not healthy, real ingredients as you’d expect from $ 3~$ 4 drinks. $ 1 crepes are lame too; you get what you pay for. Why did I come back for the second time? Even if you’re not looking for something fancy, Sweet Hut and Good Earth both have better quality/​price ratio than here.

Their crêpe is the perfect crispiness. $ 2.99 for a banana nutella crêpe is pretty cheap. Also, they let you pick your own toppings for tea drinks.

I make it a point to always come here when I’m in the city. The chicken wings are basically coated in MSG and/​or crack because once you pop you can’t stop. Seriously though. Best chicken wings ever. And I’m like a chicken wing fiend. I could seriously put back 3 bags to myself. Dream about those wings.

Late night guihua tea with grass jelly, the service is quick and the drink is as expected, not too sweet, nice texture of jelly and chai seed, and tea.

Pretty unsanitary– the toppings are out in the open for, God knows how long, with no covers. I didn’t want to complain since we were in Chinatown for late lunch and, sorry to say but. everyone know that Chinatown in SF is NOT where you look for cleanliness or top notch sanitation ratings. They only have milk and green tea based bubble teas and they have no slush option– which sucks. You fill your bubble tea cup with whatever sago or jelly you want and hand it to one of the workers and they’ll brew then fill the tea before sealing it for you.
Taste was below the standard for bubble teas. I just didn’t want to walk any further to the other spot that we had in mind (Cool Tea Bar). Sigh.

The ginger gelato was excellent! If you’re a fan of candied ginger, you’ll enjoy this one.
My only gripe really was that it was uncomfortably stuffy in here.
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This is a pretty neat place to stop into for a yummy boba tea! You pick the drink flavor and add your own boba. (Wide selection.) service was kind of slow (but it’s a Saturday– makes sense.) the tea is fresh and tasty.

Disclaimer, I think we ordered the wrong things at this café to give it a proper review. However, I will review it based on what we ordered. They and a M-​F special of a $ 1 banana and Nutella crêpe with any drink purchase so that’s what we went for. My girlfriend ordered the Oreo cookie smoothie which turned out to be like a weird combo of like an Oreo shake/​slushy and bubble tea. We probably should’ve stuck to their regular bubble teas, but this was a weird creation.
The process of getting your drink was also a little confusing for us. The staff didn’t explain that we could fill the bottom of an empty cup with toppings to be added to our drink so we just held and empty cup for a good 5 – 10 minutes feeling very confused. On the other hand, now that we know, it’s pretty cool that they let you add toppings to your drink for free!
A final note on the drink. The «smoothie» we ordered was on the more expensive side ($ 4.99) and the size was pretty decent for that price. Their sizes are pretty large overall though so for the cheaper drinks you would be getting great value!
The crêpe, on the other hand was pretty good! They served it piping hot with plenty of bananas. Unlike some crepes, this one basically had bananas in every bite. It could have used a bit more Nutella, but that’s probably just because I love chocolate.
I think this place is known for their bubble teas and frozen yogurt so if we come back that’s what we’ll definitely have to try!

Ordered a creams oolong tea this afternoon. it was really disappointing, the creama tasted weird which like a spoon of heavy cream.yuck.and I don’t understand why they served in a cup with plastic cap, it should be given with a tiny knife, so the customer can cut a hole, and drink the creama from it. Don’t order the specific tea drinks, if just reg boba tea, I bet it can’t taste bad.
Milk tea+sugar?

My kids had been begging for Bubble Tea (called Boba Tea here) all throughout our day in San Francisco.
Stopped here on our way out of China Town and was sorely disappointed.
Bubble tea here is different than back home which in itself is fine but we did not like it at all. They only offer milk options — they won’t let you do it with the tea base alone and it’s with ice rather than blended.
They do let you pick and put in your own sago/​bubble/​lychee piece toppings.
1 of our 2 drinks came wrong and had to be remade and it was still no better.
We shared banana nutella crepes which were okay but nothing to write home about.
When things really started to take a turn for the dark side was when we went to use the washroom and discovered how filthy it was and the dozens and dozens of bugs/​flies in there as their 3 HUGE garbage/​compost bins are stored in the washroom! SAY WHAT? It smelled horrendous in there.
Upon leaving, we then noticed the public posted notices of failed health inspections.
I would never return here. If I was reviewing on the food alone, it would still get only 2 stars but with the SCARY bathroom and failed health inspections, it’s a definite 1 star for me.

Tea selection is great. Hot or cold. Boba is okay, I don’t like that you have to serve it yourself from a warm «Icebox».
Line is always long and place is understaffed.

Although their milk tea was savory and sweet, it was on the pricier side for a smaller joint. It was nice being able to pick out your own jellies, probably the place’s coolest feature.
The place itself was unkept, sticky, and borderline filthy. Doubt I’d visit again.

After a long walk to and around Chinatown, we needed a spot to hydrate and rest our feet. We walked into Tuttimelon for some drinks. It’s a small store where you can fill your cup up with any combination of boba a and jellies that you like.
I enjoy being able to pick all my own add ons, but I would still prefer it to be kept behind the counter. Just a little messy for my taste.
The drinks were just ok. I was hoping they’d be a little colder but the sizes were large and flavored ok.

I like their strawberry black tea!

I like that you can scoop whatever jellies, custards and boba you’d like and add them to your drink. That’s something cool I’ve never seen at other boba tea shops.
The only thing is that none of them are labeled, so my boyfriend and I just made our best guesses and added various things to our drinks. It would be helpful if they could be labeled. The add-in’s were yummy, but it was funny because the ones we got didn’t all complement each other.
Two stars, because it looks pretty rundown and kind of cheap and messy. I wouldn’t go back. I have definitely had better and would recommend looking for other bubble tea shops to visit.

Okay, nothing super spectacular compared to the luxury boba shops that I’ve been spoiled with down in SoCal (i.e. Tastea, Lollicup, etc.), but for a very convenient location in the hub of Chinatown, SF, it’s very sweet workers, cheap prices, and self-​serve add-​on system, it definitely deserve 5 stars.
There isn’t any parking because it’s on the corner of some really crammed streets and there’s people and cars everywhere, so your best bet would be to just stop by here if you happen to be walking along the area.
On to the actual review… Honestly I haven’t tried anything other than their milk teas and I personally love their Jasmine Green Milk Tea. So I can’t really say anything about their smoothies and gelato. However, the girl who was working was sweet enough to let me have a small sample of the Taro Milk Tea and it was pretty good, just a bit sweet.
The portions are HUGE for the price you pay. 3.19 +tax will get you a regular size, but their regular is way bigger than a regular at other boba places like in OC. The large is humongous and it’s only a dollar more for a fatter cup! I usually order a regular and that keeps me pretty full!
The add-​ons are not extra to the price either. After you pay, they give you the cup to add as many add-​ons as you’d like, with options ranging from boba to jelly to pudding. Seriously, fill up with as much as you want! Then you give it back to them and they’ll just fill the rest with your drink :)
Very tasty and very great prices, definitely one of my go-​to places if I need to satisfy my boba fix! Oh and they have stamp cards and free wifi!

I wish I had found this place much earlier before my office moved more into FiDi. So sad that this won’t be within easy waking distance anymore.
Anyways, came here on a Thursday around 1:15pm because we saw the milk tea + popcorn chicken combo for $ 5, which is a great deal. My friend and I both got Thai tea, which we were delighted to find that we got to choose and fill our own add-​ins at no additional charge. So awesome. My friend got popcorn chicken and I got fried tofu. Pretty good. I’ve had better, but it wasn’t terrible. The Thai tea was delicious.
Super sad that I found this place the last day at my old office. Could have had so many more memories and milk tea drinks here. I would have liked to try their gelato, too. I’m considering making the longer walk to get here from my new location…

My rating for this place is only a ²⁄₅ stars.
My boyfriend and I came in here just to get a drink. This place is suppose to be a yogurt shop but they also sell Boba drinks and snacks.
So how this place work is different than other Boba places I’ve been to. You get to choose your toppings and you can add as much toppings as you want. It’s nice that you can add limitless toppings but it’s a bit unsanitary because they do not cover their toppings. They have small boba, large boba, grass jelly, pudding, fruit bits, etc. After you add your toppings, you give them back the cup and they will fill up your cup with your drink. We ordered a large Thai tea, and the drink was water down, not milky at all, and you can’t taste the thai tea flavor. For my toppings, I added small and large boba. Their pearls were really soft and mushy, a bit over done, not fresh or chewy at all. For those reasons, Boba drinks here are only 1 stars.
We also ordered their popcorn chicken which took forever (more than 20 mins.) But luckily the chicken was good, so I’ll give this place an extra star. If it weren’t for the chicken I would give this place 1 star rating. The chicken was fresh, it was good that they didn’t add a lot of batter onto their chicken so you can taste the meat.
Overall, I wouldn’t recommend coming here since there are other competitors around this area and maybe cheaper. But the chicken was not bad. Our drink and snack was only $ 6.50, pretty cheap compared to bay area price.

Nice little neighborhood desert place
This place seems to serve everything. Bubble tea, chopped fruits, gelato. fried chicken… they even have frozen yogurt machines? What is this madness?
The inside is Very clean and well kept. The staff is extremely friendly – I asked for a rarely-​ordered item on the menu, and kid who was on staff that day admitted he hasn’t made it before. After I tried it, he actually came and asked for comments, and made a second cup free of charge! He then asked for more comments, and continued to improve the drink until it tasted normal.
Talk about dedication to high quality products :)
Would definitely come back, especially if the kid staff happens to be there.