Cha Me Cha

After watching multiple YouTube videos on food to eat in Taiwan I got a sudden craving for bubble tea and the mango snow ice! So I decided to satisfy my desire last minute by convincing my bf to go out and grab a bite!
We came a little over an hour before closing on a Friday night and encountered a line up! Darn… I was so close! The wait was fairly short… Under 10 minutes. We were informed that the kitchen was closing if we were planning on ordering rice or noodles but I informed the server that I wasn’t planning on ordering those items. I knew what items I wanted!
We were seated at the bar area. I enjoyed the seating since I can flag a serve down quickly to place my order. I ordered a brown sugar milk tea with agar and the mango tango snow ice! When the bubble tea came it was In a huge glass! The flavour of the milk tea was good and not overly sweet since I didn’t modify my sugar levels. The agar compliments the brown sugar flavour very well so I ordered one to go! When the mango tango snow ice came it was massive! Definitely recommend sharing between 2 – 3 people. It’s very filling and I got the cold chills from eating half of it! Worth the shivers indeed!
Cant wait to have another snow ice soon!

Food is good portion, quiet and comfort make it a four star. Downside is I find the bubble tea is not as good as other places. Other than that, it’s a five star. Good place to hang around with your friends and chat with your friends while enjoying the food and drinks.

Unlike everyone else, I have only came here for the bubble tea, so this review is based on the bubble tea alone. I came here on a Friday night, we waited a while for seats, but because I came here with my friend and we didn’t mind taking the bar seats, we were seated within ten minutes.
I got a hot ginger milk tea with tapioca, tapioca is usually included in the price of $ 4.99, though if you want to upgrade it to a larger size, it will be an extra $ 1.00. I believe grass jelly is also $ 1.00 extra. My friend got a cold bubble tea drink. The hot drinks are served on a cute wooden plate. Unfortunately, they forgot to give my friend her tapioca, and we had to wait a while before someone was able to serve us. Thankfully, someone finally took note of it and gave her a spoonful of tapioca in a spoon. It tasted like normal bubble tea, nothing too special.
I guess they were extremely busy because after an hour and a half, we were handed the bill, but that was okay, because there were still a lot of people who were waiting outside.

A typical Taiwanese bubble tea spot with a good variety of snacks. The ambience and interior decoration is descent however it felt a bit overcrowded and busy with all the people waiting outside.
My friend and I went and we ordered a Mango Shaved Ice ($ 7.99) and a Sesame Brick Toast ($ 4.99). We added 60 cents extra for Mochi for the Shaved Ice and it was well worth it! The brick toast wasn’t anything special and they just put a spread of sesame on toast so I would not recommend that. However, the shaved ice was really good. The Mango Shaved ice included a scoop of Vanilla ice cream, lychee jelly, mango fruit balls, and condensed milk!
Overall I would come again for a quick snack however not for anything more, as the WiFi was down and the environment felt a bit hectic (maybe it would be different if I went at a different.)

I came here early December with the fam — we had just seen the latest Bond movie and we wanted to end the night with some treats. I don’t pass by this plaza often but when I do, Cha Me Cha is always busy. The Tuesday night we went was no exception. We waited about 10 – 15 minutes for seats to open up — service was nice enough but often a bit too quick.
We ordered a few things:
Milk tea with grass jelly — which was delicious and, for $ 5.99, a good price for the size it came in. I feel like it was a size large and it could easily be shared by two people.
We ordered shaved ice — Mango Tango, $ 7.99, which was more than enough for our party of four. For the most part, it’s a sweet, cold, and yummy treat but I wish they gave us more ice cream rather than just mostly shaved ice. The creaminess of the ice cream is what gives the shaved ice more texture and flavour. The «popping bubbles» — those round, spherical bursts of flavour (mango, in our case) were a nice topping and definitely added more to taste with the shaved ice.
Taiwanese crispy chicken is a staple of a lot of bbt, Tauwanese/​Chinese dessert cafes so we ordered some here for $ 5.99. They were good but, I guess my fam just loves ketchup, we had to dip them in it to add a bit of sweet to the crispy. The server was nice and accommodating about it too.
I ordered a Strawberry Paradise tea (regular $ 4.99; $ 2.49 with their ‘Autumn Special’) which was a bit tart and sweet — I don’t think I’d order it again but that’s down to personal preference. It came in a small pot with a small cup and it was more than enough for me throughout our night snack.
Finally, we also had their condensed milk toast which my mum loved — we all have a sweet tooth so this was one of our faves ($ 4.99).
Overall, Cha Me Cha is a good place to get Taiwanese desserts, tea, bbt, snacks, and meals. It’s often busy in the afternoons and evenings and the service is all right. The value is pretty good for places that offer similar food fare. I don’t know if I’d frequent the place but it’s nice to know a place like it exists in Markham.

Cha me cha serves pretty good Taiwanese fast food. For me and my friends, this has become our go-​to place to grab a quick bite during lunch time.
From Noon to 3pm there are $ 8.99 combos, where you get a choice of noodle or rice dish and a regular sized tea (tapioca is an extra 50 cents). It’s a pretty good deal. My favourite so far is the braised chicken and rice. The chicken is really tender and flavourful and the rice is puffy short grain rice, yum!
I always get the cold Oolong milk tea because I think it tastes better than Chatime’s. I got the drink hot once, and even though they give you a pack of sugar on the side, it wasn’t as good as the cold (unless you prefer your drink to not be super sweet, but that’s not why I drink this tea). My friends say all of the other drinks are really good too.
We have all tried the different toasts too, and they are a good light snack, but the sweetness of the toast becomes a bit too much after eating half of it.
Overall this is a good place to grab a quick bite. It’s super casual and relaxed, and all of the staff are friendly! I’d give it 3.5 stars if I could.

Great atmosphere, excellent customer service, and amazing vibe & atmosphere. I couldn’t have asked for a better place to catch up with friends. The music is also really suitable and calming to the environment. The food is delicious for Taiwanese food and the drinks are a bit different from other bubble tea places in the area. They have a sesame red bean slush and ginger milk tea which I tried that I don’t normally find in the usual bubble tea places I go to like Utopia, Chatime, or Gong Cha. The popcorn chicken was not as good as other places like Tea Shop, Utopia, or Bubble Republic in Mississauga.

Because of the reviews on Unilocal and my friend’s recommendation, I decided to come here with my husband and our friend. It’s not a large place but décor had a nice modern urban touch. With wooden walls, tables and floors. We got a nice cosy corner table which was pleasant, because the rest of the café was quite noisy. They had a large selection of drinks, meals and snacks.
Things we ordered:
1. Taiwanese Fried Popcorn Chicken. The crisp was really nice and very well seasoned. The chicken nuggets were nice and juicy as well.
2. Drinks:
Kumquat Lemon Hot Tea.
My tea was quite nice. It came in a large saucer like mug in a cute wooden box coaster. There was an extra packet of sugar, but it was sweet enough to my liking and a perfect tartness for me.
Peach Coconut Jelly with Popping Bubbles.
This was a cold drink and taste was nice peachy flavour.
Healthy Berry Hot Tea.
Pomegranate flavour and a bit of tartness. It was quite pleasant as well.
3. The Black Wizard Taiwanese Shaved Ice.
To my surprise this was delish. I have tried shaved ice before but it was not as good as this one. First of all it was huge! Good thing there was 3 of us, and we were able to finish it. The wizard content was shaved ice, grass jelly, red bean, tapioca, condensed milk, & some sort of syrup. The shaved ice was shaved so fine that it just melted in your mouth with a burst of flavour.
They are definitely under staff for this busy holiday week, but the food and drinks came quite quickIy. I would definitely come back here to try other stuff.

The quick and dirty for Cha Me Cha is that the shaved snow ice is solid but the rest is pretty meh.
I brought my cousin here who is a shaved snow ice connoisseur who proclaims that the shaved ice that he had here has dethroned his previous go-​to place in the U.S. Saying that though, the experience was soured because of the service. One of the orders was forgotten (hot grass jelly, which was thoroughly average), it took forever to flag someone down, they never bothered setting up our table, and we never received the water we asked for.
Unfortunately, I will probably come back because the snow ice was great. Portions are huge but shaved snow ice lovers have a second belly devoted to shaved snow ice.
And as an FYI, sometimes the toppings are buried underneath the pile of ice.

3.5 stars
Came here on a sat evenin with my friend.
Chamecha has the best tawainese snow ice! Too bad the rest of markham also thinks so too because it gets super busy esp. on a weekend evening. I’ve come here multiple times and had their green tea, mango, peanut, milk tea shaved ice and all are yummy! Once you reach the bottom center of the huge plate there is also a surprise! Make sure to share the place because you get a mountain of goodness for at least 2 or 3 people. Their popcorn chicken is also very yummy. They also have cute tea pots and fragrant tea.
Now if only the service was as good as the food here… Yeah I get it — its a sat. night and its going to be busy but I saw so many ladies just standing around while I am trying to get their attention… When one lady was trying to take our order, she wasnt even paying attention and walked out to serve someone else in the middle of me ordering… It also took 20mins for her to tell my friend that they were out of the bubble tea flavour he asked. When it came time to pay, noone was around to take our cash so my friend literally walked up to the register. Ugh.
Will come back for the food tho

Cha me cha is a Taiwanese style café inside the Langham Square Mall in Markham. Food menu is limited but good and the drink menu much more extensive.
This place does get busy especially evenings and weekends. Opens 12pm to 12pm daily but please note some food items stop serving around 10pm.
Some recommended food items are the crispy chicken, condensed milk toast, braised beef with noodles and 3 cup chicken.
The highlight is definitely the «Snow Ice». A huge mountain of shaved flavoured ice in a variety of flavours. You can choose your own mixtures but recommend you select the pre-​selected flavour combos. Mango and Green tea were the ones we got and both were excellent!
Servers are a little hard to flag down as they are busy but friendly and courteous. Food comes out pretty fast despite it being busy. Will be back.

The shaved ice is a funky thing to try. The appearance and texture seem a little bit odd, who in the world came up with the idea to make it look like a bunch of those bamboo shoot-​like things used in Chinese dishes? Anyways, it was alright. The shaved ice wasn’t overly sweet or flavourful, tending more to the lighter side. The highlight for me was the exploding bubbles, very interesting! And for the serving size, the value was pretty good.
I also tried a drink — a lychee lemon I believe it was called. It was delicious and the tapioca (I opted for the mixed — a bit of both large and small) was done perfectly to my liking. Drinks — nailed it.
The place does get fairly busy pretty much throughout the entire day. I can’t imagine trying to come here on a Saturday night post-​dinner or something like that; that sounds like you’re just signing yourself up for a world of hurt. Service was fine for us, and they commendably offered to split the bill for us despite us having a fairly large group of 8 people. There is also that note on the menu about a minimum of 1 order per person. They didn’t enforce that for us (a few people shared shaved ice orders), but we were also there during a relatively less busy time of day (Sunday afternoon) — maybe you’d hear more about that on the busy nights?

The snow shaved ice is fun to try, but quality is not as good as ones you can get in Asia. I had mango snow (tasted artificial) with litchi fruit aka popping bobba (it was too soft), yam, and mixed beans.
The food is decent, though the pork was a bit too salty. Kids meal is fun, presented in a car shaped bento. Tea is average.

We were one of those suckers who ordered 2 shaved ices for the 3 of us (2 adults and a 1 year old) since the bottom of the menu read «minimum 1 order per customer). I think they were referring to anything on the menu, like bbt.
Alas, we came here just to try the shaved ice so we didn’t mind… But it was definitely too much for the 3 of us.
We tried the Mango Tango and Frog Prince. Both were great. They both came with vanilla ice cream on top and a side of condensed milk.
A good thing to note was that take out containers are available! The leftovers are sitting in our freezer as we speak.

I came here after seeing all the pictures of shaved ice.
I went about 2PM with my boyfriend and was promptly seated with the restaurant being ¼ full. They had a really good lunch selection with a list of drinks that comes with it but I ate before I came):
I ordered the Mr. Brown shaved ice and it was huuuuuge. It took a good 10 minutes to come out which surprised me a little as the restaurant wasn’t busy. The flavouring wasn’t to my taste so my boyfriend demolished it.
At the end they gave us a free box of mochi!
The restaurant seemed clean and the service is prompt with 2 servers hovering. The English component isn’t bad and if they don’t understand you — you can just point at the menu.
I’ll be back to try their lunch selection!
PS. The parking can be a pain in the ass if you come at rush hours of grocery shopping as T&T is in the same building.

Came with a friend by recommendation of another. I really did enjoy the ambiance and food, however there are better dessert places. This place was very packed at 10 pm on a Saturday night and had to wait in line for abit but once seated and ordered food, it took 20 minutes to get our food.
I ordered the mango tango shaved ice and black sesame toast. The portion of the shaved ice was surprisingly huge! It was a pleasant dessert to eat but got diluted in the end as we slowly ate. It also wasnt as creamy as I expected to be. The toast was small and pretty bland; it definitely was not worth the ~$ 8! However, the presentation of the food was nice.
I may come back another time to give it another chance to become one of my go-​to dessert places!

This is one of my favourite places to go for sit-​down bubbletea/​getting together with friends, much more well lit than places like Go 4 Tea and Destiny. and they offer more tea-​beverages. The size of this restaurant is small but I have never had trouble getting a table.
I love that this place has shaved ice/​snow ice in a large variety of flavours and toppings (though often certain flavours or toppings will be sold out).the portions are HUGE. can easily feed four people as an after meal dessert.
I recently discovered their lunch/​dinner menu. $ 10 for a combo such as popcorn chicken with noodles in soup and a beverage, along with a small cup of dessert pudding, amazing price!
The service here lacks a bit, as I find the staff try to avoid eye contact with you even if they saw you trying to flag them down.

So, take my review with a grain of salt since I’m an amateur at snow ice and a visitor to Toronto/​Markham. But, I loved the place. Cha Me. Cha seems like it is a great place to hang out, eat food or dessert or just grab some drinks, hang out and use the wifi.
The snow ice was delicious, we got 4 for 8 people and I think the mango tango was my favorite. We also ordered purple crystal, green tea wizard and cotton snow. Personally, the cotton snow tasted like rainbows and butterflies. Oh wait, that must have been the mochi and frubo, haha. But seriously, it was super sweet and my little 13 year old cousin loved it. The purple crystal tastes just like taro and I hated it. But I don’t like taro, although I’m told by the others in my party that it was delicious.
The drinks we ordered were great too. But how can you screw up a drink? Service was slow, but they were really really busy. If you want fast service, this may not be the place for you.

Ok… So cha me cha used to be one of my favourites in Markham. However, the way it is now is no comparison to the way it used to be. I loved it so much and my previous review shows it– it even got ROTD! BUT UGH. Here is a current, updated and true review.
Went here yesterday at 10pm ish and the restaurant was brimming to the top with Asians. It’s SO full compared to how it was before. It seems to never be empty anymore. Even the parking lot has gotten super full and hard to find parking. Damn it. That was something about this place that didn’t piss me off. That’s fine, the server handed me a ticket on a post it note and I wanted to ask him how long will the wait be. (I worked from 8am-9:30pm and needed to go home to sleep for the same schedule the next day– yeah, my life sucks, I know). The server said «I don’t know» and I asked if he could give me an estimate– what any restaurant usually does when someone asks. He replied with a «I don’t know! When someone leaves». Well ok, I can see someone’s in training to be captain obvious.
We only waited about 5−10min. We saw a table leave but they were too busy to clean it so they just left it there and left us waiting at the door. Later, another table opened and the server rushes over and says «ok come». As my boyfriend and I start to get up, she gives us a hand gesture to wait and says «wait. Not yet.» LOL? Why didn’t you just tell us when it was ready then?
Anyways– the food quality and consistency has remained the same. The snow ice is of course the queen of the show. I really enjoyed the fresh fruit mango snow ice and even though it’s $ 3 more than the regular one with fake syrup, it’s really worth it! The regular snow ice is great too, many different flavours and just a delicious treat. The crispy chicken is a crowd favourite but I feel like the quality has definitely decreased and it’s mainly just salt and pepper thrown in with some bland chicken.
Oh, and another thing that hasn’t changed– it’s inevitable that you’re going to see someone you know in Markham whenever you come. This has never NOT happened every time I’ve been here and I think it’s the main reason I never want to hang out here or anywhere else in Markham for that matter. I will gladly turn away the Unilocal duchess title for this place, especially since service is super shitty now.

Came here on a Tuesday night with just a friend. We stood at the entrance waiting to be seated for over 5mins. The waitresses walk around not noticing that we’ve been standing there waiting for a seat.
The place is fairly small and mostly full already. Attentiveness of servers are poor, we didn’t get serve until after awhile of impatient waiting. Seems to me that they are under staffed when they know that it is usually busy.
We wanted to order mango tango which was mangi flavored, but they are out of stock until the end kf the month which is 3wks later. So we ordered a green wizard ice cream which was green tea ice cream, red bean, grass jelly, tapioca and condensed milk. Trying it for the first time, it wasn’t disappointing at all, in fact it was very good. We also ordered a roasted rice green milk tea which wasn’t rich in flavor and tasted like a powdered drink.
The place is clean and comfortable to sit to grab desserts or drinks or even to do some catching up with friends. I would recommend getting their ice cream and is the only thing I am looking forward in coming back to to try other flavors. Their drinks wasn’t too satisfying and service was disappointing.