It’s Boba Time - El Monte

South El Monte has some of the best California boba brands including 7Leaves, Sharetea, Ono Tea House, E-Cup, and Boba Time. It is a community that has a lot of boba tea supplies material nearby including Tapioca Express, Quickly's, and its large community of tennis players attract a lot of Asian people and boba lovers making it one of the best places to do boba business and thrive. With companies like Winneram International down the block, boba tea stores in South El Monte have a lot of access to the boba supplies, consumer, and entrepreneurial ecosystem to thrive. While I would love to see Tastea, Ding Tea, Gongcha, and more move into this community as well since the rapidly expanding base of Asian students studying at the South El Monte high school is a large contributing factor to the

Been to the one in Duarte and now this one is finally open and got to try it out. Their milk tea is very smooth and they've got lots of different items on their menu. Health bowls, slushies, teas, frappes. XL size drinks too.

Great spot for the best and freshest boba drinks. A little pricey but worth it to me, if it was a little less expensive I would stop there every single day on my way home from work instead of once a week.

I came because I was craving some chewy bobas. I checked on google that there is finally “it’s boba time” in el monte, so i stopped by. I came in around 9:15PM, when I walked in I wasn’t greeted or nothing. No “Hi welcome”. Nobody acknowledged me. I asked “hi are you guys still open?” Since nobody said anything, and nobody answered me. 2 of the workers were just turned their head and stared at me. So i asked if i could place in an order. And one of them finally walked to the front desk. Granted it was late and they were already starting cleaning their drink station, but never was he washed his hand. When he walked over to the counter after placing his rag that he used to wiped his station, there was no smile at all. He made me anxious because I felt like he didn’t want me there, but I or

When I want something to drink, different than what they have at King Taco, this is a great spot. I could customize one of many drinks. There are 20 popular drinks if you cannot decide. Then you can see why it’s popular. They also have macarons and a few pastries. I’ve been to other Boba Time locations and it does seem very similar. So I could count on consistency when it comes to making the drinks. I have to remember that I like the PB Banana drink. This time I got the brown sugar milk tea.