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No. 01 · Signature
Premium Milk Tea
Strong black tea base, the house ratio of milk, hand-cooked pearls. The drink that started it. Order it the first time. You'll order it again.
A small Brooklyn tea bar where the menu doesn't lie. Premium milk tea, taro, grapefruit — fresh-brewed daily, served the way you ordered it. No hidden dairy. No shortcuts.
Call (347) 240-4648No marketing language. These are the rules of the counter. Read them, hold us to them.
If you ask for vegan, you get vegan. We don't mix non-dairy powder with dairy creamer behind the counter. The pearls are vegan. The toppings are vegan. The boba is vegan when you ask.
Tea is brewed in small batches each morning. We don't carry yesterday's brew over. If the day is slow, we throw it. If the day is busy, we brew more.
Half sweet means half sweet. Less ice means less ice. No upselling, no substitutions without telling you. The cup that comes out is the cup you ordered.
One counter. Two hands. Drinks built in front of you, in under three minutes. We chose to stay small so the line moves and the tea stays right.
Scroll across. Each one is the reason a regular keeps coming back.
Small bites, made the same morning. Japanese-leaning, Taiwanese-friendly. Things that don't fight the tea on your table.
Salted rice triangle. Salmon or umeboshi. Wrapped in nori, eaten with one hand.
Six pieces, hot off the iron. Bonito flakes, kewpie, a small pour of sauce.
Fish-shaped cake, crisp shell, soft red bean inside. Pair with any milk tea.
Hong-Kong style, eggy and crisp. With ice cream when the day is warm.
We open at noon, not at dawn. The first cup of the day is not a wake-up call — it's a pause. The room fills slowly through the afternoon, settles into a quiet hum by five, holds until eight.
If you're looking for a morning coffee, there are good places nearby. If you're looking for a chair, a cup, and a flat hour — that's what we're built for.
Most boba shops say "vegan available" and then quietly pour the same powdered creamer that's been on the shelf for a month. We don't do that. The non-dairy options on our menu were chosen by tasting, side by side, against the dairy version.
If a non-dairy milk made the drink worse, it didn't make the menu. The ones that did are listed below. Ask for any of them in any drink — no upcharge, no eye-roll.