Welcome to the Vancouver Foodster Iced Tea Challenge. I have invited cafes from all over the city to enter their Iced Tea creations into this challenge, some have entered their most popular creation from their menu and others created a special Iced Tea creation just for this challenge. Each cafe will be featuring their special Iced Tea creation on their menu from July 12- August 5, 2018.
How Does this all Work? For the public challenge, you are invited to go out and order any or all of the Iced Tea creations in this challenge, then you decide who you think has the best Ice Tea creation for the People’s Choice award winners.
Share your experiences: Social share by tweeting, instagraming or snapchating your photos throughout the challenge, our twitter and instagram address is @vanfoodster and the hashtag is #IceTeaChallengeYVR
Voting criteria – some things to help you judge your favourite iced tea creations – keep these things in mind: originality, creativity, uniqueness, traditional, non-traditional, price, value and most importantly taste.
Get some friends together and make a day or night of it, visit 2 places or more to taste the different Iced Tea creations or go solo or with a friend– just remember to VOTE for your favourites
Here are the Iced Tea creations in this challenge, listed in no particular order other than when they were received by us.
T-Go Tea
Premium Matcha Green Tea Latte Blizzard Smoothie
Price: $6.45
Created by: Steven and Mike
Description: Inspired by the Taiwanese famous shaved ice dessert, T-Go Tea invented summer blizzard drink series. One of the drinks is our Premium Matcha Green Tea Latte Blizzard Smoothie. It is a delicious boost of antioxidant powered by our pure and natural green tea matcha. At T-Go Tea, we use premium teas and natural ingredients in all our bubble teas and smoothies. Our mission at T-Go Tea is to bring you the best quality of tea leaves, ingredients, and brewing methods in order to create tea drinks with the finest tasting sensations. Taste the premium quality! Enjoy the cold refreshing drink! Perfectly matched with our sweeten red beans and satisfying tapioca pearls. Refuel yourself with such a cooling and refreshing drink.
Ingredients: Premium matcha, fresh milk/almond milk, fruit sugar, shaved ice, red beans, and tapioca pearls.
Offered: All the time
T-Go Tea
4720 Mcclelland Road #1810, Richmond
Tel:(604) 332-9111
Twitter:@tgotea
Instagram @tgotea
Boba Monster
Boba Monster Milk Tea
Price: $6
Created by: Jordan and Flor
Description: The drink contains several toppings hence the name “monster” which includes egg pudding, grass jelly, boba and the best part, a scoop of vanilla ice cream to make it a more of a milk tea float.
Offered: all the time
Boba Monster
5766 Fraser Street, Vancouver
Tel:(778) 838-9043
Web:http://www.bobamonsterbubbletea.com/
Instagram @bobamonster
TREASURE GREEN Tea Company
Champagne Jasmine Iced Tea
Price: $5.50
Created by: Olivia Chan
Description:
Ingredients: Cold infused Premium Jasmine Green, Grapefruit Zest, Honey
Offered: all the time
TREASURE GREEN Tea Company
227 East Georgia Street, Vancouver
Tel: 604.687.4181
Instagram @treasuregreentea
Vietnamese Tea House
Vietnamese Pandan Milk Tea
Price: $4.50
Created by: Melissa Dang
Description: Made from fresh real Pandan leaves that they cook to make Pandan syrup. Topped with whipping cream and pearls/ lychee coco jelly, coffee jello/ grass jelly/ popping boba.
Vietnamese Tea House
2526 E. Hastings Street, Vancouver
Tel:(604) 620-5922
Web:https://vietnamese-tea-house.business.site/
Instagram @vietnameseteahouse
Sencha Tea Lounge
Honey Camellia Milk Tea
Price:$6
Created by: the team
Description: Honey Camiellia Milk tea made with green tea and honey.
Ingredients:The ingredients are Camellia Tea + Honey + Fruit Sugar + Coffee Mate (optional)
Offered:all the time
Sencha Tea Lounge
3468 W Broadway, Vancouver
Tel: (604) 428-9866
Web: https://www.senchatealounge.com
Instagram: @senchatealounge
Taan Char
Peach Strawberry Full House Tea
Price:$6.90
Created by:the team
Description: iced tea with fresh peaches and strawberries creating a full house tea.
Ingredients:
Offered:all the time
Taan Char
7908 Granville Street, Vancouver
Tel: (604) 428-8292
Web: https://www.facebook.com/taan.char.1
Instagram @taanchar
Our Media judges for this challenge are:
Maggi Mei
Blogger and Instagrammer
Twitter: @mag_mei
Instagram: @magmei
Andrew Chan
Blogger and Photographer
Twitter: @eatwithmao
Instagram: @eatwithmao
Jay Minter
Writer of food and the arts for On The List, Vancouver Presents and other publications.
Twitter: @jminter
Instagram @jminter
Make sure you pick up one of the Iced Tea Challenge postcards available at each of the participating cafes and keep a record of your favourites. Remember to Vote for your favourites from July 12 – August 5, 2018 at https://vancouverfoodster.com/ice-tea-challenge/