The Vancouver Foodster Iced Tea Challenge was another success featuring iced tea creations from cafes around Vancouver. Each cafe featured their iced tea creation from July 12-August 5, 2018. Our media judging panel determined the ultimate winners of the challenge, and this was quite the task as each judge who tasted each creation with a rigorous process based on taste, originality/uniqueness and presentation/appearance.
Our Media judges for this challenge were: Maggi Mei, Jay Minter and Andrew Chan.
Each media judge will have scored the creation with a maximum of 40 points as follows: Overall Taste 20 points, Originality and Uniqueness 10 points, Presentation and Appearance 10 points). The total number of points a iced tea creation could earn is 120 points.
The Winners are:
1st Place:
{102 points}
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
Olivia Chan
2nd Place
{98 points}
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
Melissa Dang
3rd Place
{93 points}
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
Gary
In the People’s Choice Awards category, the public who tried the Iced Tea creations were the ones who had the opportunity to cast their vote throughout the challenge.
The Winners are:
1st Place People’s Choice:
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
2nd Place People’s Choice:
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
3rd Place People’s Choice:
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
Thank you to the cafes that accepted my invitation and featured their Iced Tea creations on the menu for the past few weeks during this challenge.
I encourage you to visit the winning cafes to try their Iced Tea creations! See all the Iced Tea creations here.
By: Richard Wolak