Posted By Reporter On March 22, 2011 (11:29 pm) In Entertainment
2285 McKee Rd
San Jose, CA 95116
San Jose, CA 95116
Whenever you feel like a quick snack, Tapioca Express is one of the few restaurants within walking distance from KIPP San Jose Collegiate. Tapioca Express is a chain of stores that sell tea and Asian food especially boba drinks, which are drinks with tapioca pearls.
Tapioca Express offers an extensive beverage menu, with prices for all drinks ranging around $3-$5. There are teas, juice, flavored milk, snow bubbles (smoothies), milk teas, ices, and more that have the option of coming with pearls, jelly, or fruit.
Tapioca Express also sells snacks and combo meals that include spicy popcorn chicken, calamari rings, fried squid balls, and other small snacks. The restaurant also offers specials in addition to the regular menu which are written on a chalkboard in the front of the store.
I recently went to Tapioca Express afterschool with friends. We ordered an avocado snow bubble, milk tea with pearls, and spicy popcorn chicken to-go. While waiting for the food, which did not take more than 6 minutes, we waited around on the comfy set up of chairs and tables. The avocado snow bubble was creamy, delicious, and sweet. It only comes in a Large, but that was okay because it was so good and was more than enough to last me the walk back to school. The milk tea with pearls tasted like normal milk tea, which is a mix of the flavors of milk, condensed milk, and tea. Juniors An Ha and Daniel Chau described milk tea as,”Really sweet milk with a hint of the tea at the end.”It was nothing special, but definitely good enough so satisfy any cravings. The chicken came in a bag and came with a special sweet and sour sauce that complimented the spicy chicken. The chicken was spicy and crunchy bite sized pieces like flavored fried chicken. There was enough chick en to split between three people, despite the serving not seeming all that big.
Tapioca express is like any other normal pearl tea place with snacks and a variety of food. It is not special but is good for easy, quick snacks when you’re at school and starving, or if you want to try some new foods. Junior Kennya Rosado said,” I hadn’t tried pearl tea until this year, but it was one of the closest places to school other than fast food. I actually really like the taste and the store looks chill.” Tapioca Express is a fun place to hang out and eat or to get a quick bite. Sophomore Lynda Ngo said,” I know that some of the food might sound weird but it actually taste good. People who haven’t had boba milk tea or Thai tea should try it”.
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Reflection:
This review was very basic and supposes to help students to try out new restaurants close to school. Tapioca Express is very cultural food and is mostly Asian, so it was a good chance to spread culture. This article could be useful to students and recommended some foods. I liked that it showed the review on the store, service, and food with comments from more people than just me and a friend. I think that the article was lacking more quotes and better explanations. Describing how food taste was actually pretty hard and I did not want to inaccurately say how something tastes. It also could have had more of a solid conclusion that pushed people to try the restaurant out. Food reviews should also have more details and not beat around the bush as much as this article had done. Overall, I think this review was informative and good but could have been improved to make it more descriptive and interesting.
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