Ultimate guide to alternative bubble tea brands

Updated 28 Feb 2025

It's the nationwide guilty pleasure. It's the go-to comfort drink when you feel down. For many, it's also the beverage ordered in bulk during study or work breaks. Yes, we are referring to the ever-so-popular bubble tea. If you are a fellow addict, you have most definitely tried the mainstream brands like Liho, Gong Cha, Tiger Sugar, Koi, and the list goes on.

Think you have tried it all? You are just getting started! Up-and-coming brands are taking the local market by storm. After all, when it comes to bubble tea tasting, it's always the more the merrier.

We present you with these alternative bubble tea brands and where their X-factor lies. Browse through the enticing list and get ready to order while enjoying some incredible Fuzzie member privileges.

Famous in Taiwan with over 200 stores, Kebuke is finally in Singapore! They're known for their slow-brewing techniques and high craftsmanship, bringing out rich, aromatic flavours emphasizing the natural sweetness of the teas. They've got a retro-inspired concept that's pretty cool.

FOR MUSLIMS: While not halal certified, they use only Muslim-friendly ingredients.

Fuzzie Privilege: 1 for 1 drink, 15% off total bill

Location: CIMB Plaza, Taste Orchard, Sembawang Shopping Centre

The Whale Tea

The Straits Times's Best Bubble Tea

Famous for their over-the-top teas made with an exciting range of techniques and flavours. Beautiful and highly instagrammable, must try their signature Flaming Brown Sugar (with actual flames!) and Volcanic Sapphire Whale drinks.

AWARD: The Straits Times's Best Bubble Tea 2023

FOR MUSLIMS: While not halal certified, they use only Muslim-friendly ingredients.

Fuzzie Privilege: 15% off total bill

Location: Jurong Point, Lot One, Takashimaya, HDB Hub, Suntec City Mall, Rivervale Mall

Bober Tea

Famous for their Brown Sugar Creme Brulee

There’s no better place to find homegrown tea than at Bober Tea. While they are known for their Brown Sugar Crème Brûlée Milk with boba pearls, they offer a wide selection of beverages that are worth exploring, such as their must-try original Brown Sugar Roasted Oolong Milk, Salted Caramel Milk Tea, Hokkaido Chizu Matcha and Black Sugar Konjac Jelly Milk Tea.

FOR PARTIES: Bober Tea offers a generous bulk purchase discount to deliver drinks to your home or office.

Fuzzie Privilege:

1. 1 for 1 any drink
2. 25% off bulk purchase delivery with min 20 cups

Location: Bukit Panjang Plaza, Compassvale Link

At Tea

Artisanal bubble tea by Taiwanese star Jam Hsiao

With its strikingly bright, futuristic orange, At Tea's outlets are eye-catching. Launched by popular Taiwanese singer, Jam Hsiao, they offer quality, flavourful drinks from the classic milk tea to fruit teas and Jam's favourite, the signature cream cheese foam series. They offer 3 choices of toppings Tapioca Pearl, Aloe Vera and Oolong Jelly and even a 10% sugar level option for the more health conscious.

Check out their Once Upon a Milk Tea drink, it brings back nostalgic memories of those intensely milk flavour of the BBT that first hit our shores back in the 90s. For a touch of craftsmanship, their cheese foam drinks are all hand-stamped with their logo and name, which is pretty cool.

Fuzzie Privilege: 1 for 1 any drink

Location: 313 @ Somerset, JEM, Tiong Bahru Plaza, Eastpoint Mall, Pasir Ris Mall

Tea Dojo

New Spins on Classics

Located in the cosy heartlands of Toa Payoh, stop by for Tea Dojo's refreshing and reinvigorating bubble tea drinks to cool yourself right off. This newly-opened bubble tea shop puts a new spin on the classics with their artisanal takes like the Super Chestnut Snow, Boba Grape Yoghurt, and their popular Bobo Fruity Goodness Series that will leave you thirsting for more. Our personal Fuzzie staff favourites? Their Fruit Tea series that come with actual fresh-cut fruits bursting with all-natural fruit-infused flavour.

Fuzzie Privilege: Enjoy 1 for 1 any drink for takeaway.

Location: Toa Payoh

Yan Xi Tang

Opulent flavours fit for royalty

Inspired by the famous Chinese series Story of Yanxi Palace, Yan Xi Tang beverages are infused with styles from the Qing Dynasty court. Besides timeless bubble tea classics like the milk and fruit teas, the brand is known for its elegant and eclectic surprises.

The riveting Grape Fresh Milk with Golden Raisin & Aloe Vera is a bestseller, known for its smooth and opulent taste topped with a generous sweet cream serving. The nutty Honey Ceylon Pearl Milk Tea with authentic Pistachio flavour is also quite the royal treat.

Fuzzie Privilege: 1 for 1 any large drink

Location: NEWest, Jalan Besar, Geylang Bahru, Kembangan MRT Station

Café De Paris

For Korean lovers

This is a bubble tea cafe like no other. Café De Paris's Sweet BonBon is a famous Korean dessert drink filled literally to the brim with succulent fruit chunks, slushie and cream. It may cost more than your average bubble tea drink, but the portion size is immense. So, finish it with a friend, or all by yourself if you have a sweet tooth. Have your pick among these flavours: Mango, Melon, Blueberry, Grape, Pineapple, Strawberry and Brownie.

The best part is, the café also offers art jamming sessions, so you can exercise your creativity while enjoying your BonBon drink.

Fuzzie Privilege: 25% off regular priced food and drinks (dine-in and takeaway)

Other privileges:

• 3-hour art jamming with drinks for 2 pax for $45 nett (UP $110)
• 1 for 1 Cake & Drink Set (UP $17.30 each)
• Fuzzie High Tea Set at $24+ /pax (UP $43.50+/pax)

Location: 313 @ Somerset

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