After our lunch, my friend and I decided that since we weren’t very far away we’d grab a bubble tea at The Alley since that’s a pretty nice bubble tea chain that we both like and they usually have a strong seasonal menu. I
feel like this year in particular The Alley reaaalllyyyy popped off with their anime inspired/collaborated bubble tea offerings. In fact, I’m pretty sure they’ve had one going every month this year!? Right now it’s My Hero Academia which is an anime that I have, like, a loose knowledge of. Enough to know the characters the two featured drinks were inspired by, anyway. I picked this one out more because the flavour sounded good though, and less because of the anime angle since they were sold out of most of the Winter Series drinks (which all seemed to be loosely gingerbread inspired).Basically the drink was a peach flavoured matcha latte topped with cheese/snow foam and a sprinkling of crunchy dalgona-like cookies. I got mine half sweet, and was pleasantly surprised that even with it being half sweet it wasn’t all that sugary at all aside from the expectedly rich and cheesecake-like snow foam topping. Very, very creamy and matcha forward with a lot of more grassy, buttery and unctuous notes. The peach was nice, but I thought could have been a little strong. As it was white peach it was fairly floral, but I thought that was nice – especially as we walked back to the metro on this unseasonably warm day. It was like 11 degrees Celsius today – almost all the snow melted away and it felt more like a lightly brisk late Spring afternoon.
This was my first time trying a drink from The Alley with the crunchy topping, and it was the only element I didn’t enjoy. Most of it just sunk to the bottom of the bubble tea and then it got more soggy than anything else – like cornflakes that have been in the cereal milk for too long? It was also so sweet in contrast to the rest of my drink, and that felt a little at odds…
Anyway, it was an overall positive drink! I’d order it again, but probably ask them to skip on the crunchy topping. Maybe in 2025 they’ll continue the anime series but with an anime I actually watch. That’d be pretty cool.
