Golden Tea Shop

Beryl V.

Golden Tea Shop is consistently my favorite boba shop in the Bay Area! I have tried most of their milk teas and a variety of their fruit teas and every single one has been good quality with strong tea flavors. The shop carries a wide variety of teas and even offers speciality medicinal teas that one rarely sees at most bubble tea shops. My go-tos happen to be the tieguanyin and dragonwell milk teas, but all of their teas are well made! Even though I don't usually order fruit teas at boba shops, I really enjoy Golden Tea's fruit teas as they are really fresh (I once saw the owner cut & scoop out a whole fresh passion fruit into one of their special fruit teas!). I happen to be pretty passionate about tea and one of the reasons I enjoy this shop so much is that its owner truly cares about tea and is super knowledgeable about the field. The shop is split into two units (boba drink shop to the right and loose leaf teas & supplies to the left, I believe the loose leaf tea shop is over a decade old). At both shops, she has kindly given me recommendations and guidance based on my tastes and they were always delightful experiences. Furthermore, both the boba tea shop and loose leaf tea shop are very affordable, especially for the quality! Thank you Golden Tea Shop!

Wan Ping Chua

Great place to buy whole loose leaf tea! They charge by weight, so you can choose to get however much you like. They have a nice selections of oolong, pu-ers and tieguanyin. The prices are very fair!

Justin Skaggs

Definitely one of the best boba I've had in Oakland. I got the brown sugar boba for $5.50, and the amount and flavor is perfect. There's a cute tea shop right next door too!

R G

their tea by itself is the highest quality tea in chinatown imo, though the quality of their additions and service can vary. pricewise they’re probably the best value for boba in the area. try the adjoining tea shop next door for looseleaf chinese tea.