Honey Bee Teahouse

Interesting Interesting.
It seems as if «Bellaire Blvd» has become somewhat of a Vegas «Strip» in regards to the main players of boba located on the same street.
4 – 7 from what I could count.
So same street.
Basically same plaza.
Confident its strongly Taiwanese scene.
Different specialties though.
Once there’s good competition, that’s when the fun begins. I actually wanted to try «Class 502», which was in the same plaza. Reason why is because in SoCal there is a similar place called Class 302.
Why bring this up?
The hefty (wide) cup sizes. Class 502 doesn’t have it. But Honey Bee does.
Pros for Honey Bee
— Add in’s and toppings is what stands out. Especially if you can fit in something like egg pudding. Big advantage for those who like it big and some.
–THE HONEY BOBA. WOW. FANTASTIC. I usually skip out on the balls but that was special. Also the egg pudding had a «flan like» consistency that separated it from other places that offer it. WONDERFUL.
–Menu– Really comprehensive. Its good… but gosh I had to sit down for a few minutes to battle plan the combination.
Taro here is powder. For other ingredients being freshly involved I was super bummed but still got it.
[Overall]
–Wider cups
–Big list
–Great add-​ins
–iffy on the drinks such as if they have good milk tea etc. Will have to try another time.

I officially hate Honey Bee. This is my second time here. I got two drinks, both were dissatisfying. The food isn’t that good either. And I found a hair in my calamari.

Like the general population, I am judging this place based on ONE drink that I always order.
I had the mint matcha smoothie and it was amazing!
Service was great because ain’t no body bothering me.

Love the drinks here! I didn’t get to try the food but I’ve heard the pork sandwiches are good. I got the taro explosion with egg custard and boba. My friend got the honey milk tea with boba and custard. Both were awesome! Its about $ 5 for a regular cup and $ 6 for large cup. Will try the food next time!

I love the unique fat cups that the bubble teas come in, but they also don’t fit in the car holders which isn’t really convenient. Then I’m just not a fan of their flowery tasting teas, especially when I want milk tea. Their snack foods are fairly average, and the boba are inconsistent textures. I do like the space they provide in their store, and the cute honeybee design on the walls.

Friday night and the place wasn’t packed. I ordered a Thai tea with tapioca and when I got it, it was too sweet and the tapioca pearls where soft on the outside and rock solid on the inside. I had some that was just perfect and some just rock solid. I didn’t expect that. Seemed like they mixed two different batches together. There’s no quality control there. My friend ordered a different drink and it was the same issue. My friend also ordered the chicken gizzards that was deep fried and had bbq sauce drizzled on top. It wasn’t good. Worse place I’ve ever been too.

At first you think it’s any other boba shop but you would be in for a pleasant surprise. My friends and I ordered the honey bee milk tea, taro coconut, caramel milk tea, and the two to tango. We ordered ours 50% with less sugar which in hindsight wasn’t probably the greatest idea. We probably would go with 75% less sugar next time. But the drinks were still tasty. Both the honey bee milk tea and caramel milk tea had the honey boba and egg pudding. The boba had a nice sweetness due to the honey. The egg pudding was a nice addition to the drinks and made them more unique. Definitely a must try. The taro coconut tasted kinda like expected… It was good. The two to tango was mixture of strawberry and mango. A very nice combination if you’re looking for something more fruity and refreshing.

When in Bellaire, it is a virtual guarantee to have a bakery /​Dim Sum /​random Viet joint /​boba spot lurking in a strip mall nearby. I was lucky enough to find the latter in Honey Bee, a modest bubble tea shop with hip décor and a young staff. They’re really Unilocal savvy (w00t) with the logo branding on their cups and a fun check-​in offer discount to boot.
The size of the cups, especially the large ones, are reminiscent of the mega Cali ones where they’re so wide they don’t fit in most car cup holders. It is fitting, however, considering how much bigger everything is in Texas. What isn’t big however is the parking situation, but with all of the in and out traffic, it probably isn’t much of a problem during the day time. At night, I have a feeling they’re a prime hangout for the not-​21-​and-​over crowd, which may be the only time when the lot is full.
Every boba spot has the usual round of flavors (milk tea, honeydew, taro, etc.), but what I appreciate about Honey Bee is their willingness to combine different flavors while having a plethora of textures such as egg pudding, grass jelly, and one of my favorites, mini boba or baby boba. Lately I’ve been feeling the taro coconut (!!) slush and the strawberry ice milk with egg pudding is one I don’t find too often. Another thumbs up goes to the Thai Iced Tea with lychee jelly and their classic Ice Milk Tea with boba never fails to impress.
There is also food here. Mostly Taiwanese with the myriad of baos and basil popcorn/​fried chicken, but much of it has been hit or miss. The pork belly bao was solid and the kalbi Korean style bao was disappointingly bland. I haven’t yet dived into the lobster takoyaki, which is unappealing given its premium price point. I had a bite or two from the bento box setup, which was also just somewhere in the realm of decent.
I’m happy to stick with the bubble tea and the free WiFi. The staff is usually a nice bunch of young folks, eager to serve and friendly always. When in Chinatown Houston, I’ll be looking forward to my next thirst quenching visit.

3.5 stars. So this place is tucked in a strip mall next to a Korean restaurant and a Chinese vase store. You can easily miss it if you didn’t know it existed. As far as I know they are popular for their trendy «big cups», which sucks for me coz it didn’t really fit in my cup holder. The drink menu is extensive, and they have a good selection of food.
I opted for the coffee milk tea with honey boba and grass jelly. The flavor was not that great but not too bad where I couldn’t drink it. The boba had too much honey flavor, the grass jelly was perfect. One plus side that I will mention again is that the portion is huge. Size matters for some people, you know!
I always wished the boba places in Clear Lake has food offerings like they do here, and next time I’m around I’ll definitely try their food!
Overall, the drink I had was ok and there are certainly a lot more better boba places around. Still worth giving them another shot, though!

One of my favorite boba places in H town. I am only reviewing their boba because I havent tried their food. They have a great selection of drinks and you can add boba, pudding, jelly for extra. You can get 100, 75, 50% sweetness. I always get their milk tea, its’ silky smooth. Their boba is a perfect combination of sweet + chewy. They all come in these extra wide cups (not too practical for car cup holders). My only negative comment is its cash only like most Chinese restaurants in china town.. If you’re in china town and you cant decide between the 20+ boba tea shops, come give honey bee a try.

I tried a regular MILK TEA with grass jelly. It was too sweet for my liking and the grass jelly was really mushy. I didn’t like the drink at all. I’m not sure why people give them such high reviews, but I guess I should try other things on their menu before I turn them away, but a milk tea is the most basic drink you could make. It’s so simple that messing that up I’m just not sure if their other drinks would be any good. If I have to choose the level of sweetness then your drinks have way too much sugar.
POMEGRANATE BLACK TEA– This drink was also too sweet and really syrup-​y. It was like water with added flavoring. It would be a very refreshing drink, but sadly the tea flavor was masked by the sweetness.
The boba were very mushy and soft. They were an odd texture.
I won’t be coming back anytime soon, but maybe if I’m feeling spontaneous for a diabetic drink I might try this place again. On to the next tapioca/​boba joint in Bellaire!

Their food is good. I love their Beijing’s Duck
and others Bao. I have try their milktea before but it’s a disappoint because I didnt request cut sugar in half so it’s too sweet. Their service is not professional, the guy that stand at counter table give customer an attitude like he doesn’t want to work.

Their Jasmine milk tea is the best I’ve had in Houston thus far. The tapioca is decent, having a honey flavor to it.
Although the wide-​sized cups are cute and provide adequate portions, they are not practical (and I’m all about practicality). Honey Bee cup… why you no fit in my car cup holder?! With that said this is a great place to hang out with friends, play boardgames, and study… but not good for on the road adventures.
If you live in Houston get a stamp card.

My friend was raving about this place so we definitely needed to stop by to try it out when we were in town! I ordered the Honey Bee Iced Milk drink & Caramel Iced Milk Drink. For each of the Milk drinks you get to choose two toppings for your drink (Boba, Pudding or Grass Jelly).
One thing that I really liked was you could choose how sweet you want your drink. I chose the lowest sweetness but I think the drink still ended up being sweet from the boba.
Iced Milk drinks: Don’t forget to shake your drink before you poke your straw through!
Overall, I think it was good. Really comparable to Half & Half in Orange County, CA! I’ve had other copycats from Orange County & San Diego and this was the closest to Half & Half compared to the others I’ve tried.

I’m not entirely sure what happened to this store. Only four months after my initial positive experience here, Honey Bee was not the same cool place that I would want to return anymore.
Even though the line was short with only three people in front, the cashier was really inefficient in handling incoming customers because she had to take the order, literally run the order in the kitchen, and deliver the past orders by herself — Clearly this shop is understaffed. Boba craving is usually spontaneous at least for me, so after waiting ten minutes with only one person in line finished, I got bored and checked my past Unilocal review — That’s when I realized that the drink increased the price from $ 3.95 to $ 4.99 without tax in a few months.
By then, I decided there are better boba places to spend my time and money especially since Tea Bar and Kung Fu Tea are within walking distance.
The novelty of the Honey Bee Ice Milk Drink is still there, but I don’t think it’s worth the newly increased price or the unnecessarily long wait when every other boba places nearly still deliver the drinks for around $ 4 with tax in half the amount of waiting time. I felt that if I don’t write a update for this place, it would be immoral for me to leave my past approval if this place maintained its quality decay.

Very confused by this place. I understand the hype about the cute cups — yes, I, too, think that anything short, stubby, and filled with milk tea is totally worth the Instagram post — but that is where the positive aspects stop.
Their milk teas are WAY too sweet and have a strange aftertaste. I even ordered my Honeybee Milk Tea with half sugar, and it was still way too sweet! I had the same opinion of the regular milk tea I got to try.
I think my confusion stems from the fact that my roommate loves this place, and I just don’t get it. LOL Maybe I came on an off day. Maybe I’ll try again.

Honeybee, your drinks are decent, but you food needs a lot of work. I was so hungry after work and craved some baos. The menu and description of the food did not turn out like how I read it was going to be. I order 4 baos and everything was the same topping except the protein chosen. Those skinny worm looking Mushrooms and green peppers stacked on each bao and it was so disgusting, barely any meat and the pink paste sauce on my teriyaki bao was not good. My shrimp tempera bao… Now I’m sure it was frozen shrimp rolled in batter and fried… And still raw inside. It taste and smelled like raw old ocean animals and made me throw up. Now. I came around 5pm… Who ever cooked it had plenty of time to thaw it out in the morning to prepare to fry through out the day.
One of the girls in the front were eating their bento box meals or whatever and once I was ready to order she moved it to the side in front of me. Really unprofessional. just go on a lunch break! And wipe that bitch face off. Freakin smile and sound like you want to be there.
Ordering was such a hassle. Menus are placed near the condiments. Everyone is standing in the middle of the walkway looking at their menus rather than sitting. If you don’t know what you want just have a seat so people can get by. They should just move the tables on the right side and make blocked area to stand in line to order like chipotle or something.
Go for the drinks, not for the food unless you want food poisoning.

My favorite bubble drink place. I am so glad I don’t live close because I would go there every day!
You have to keep up with the stamp card.
I like how you can control how sweet you want to make your drink. I think ¾ or ½ is good.
Small parking lot.

Among the plethora of Asian drink cafes waving bubble teas and matcha lattes and passion fruit smoothies at your face, Honey Bee is able to stand its ground against other nearby competitors (Kung Fu Tea, Café 101, Juice Box etc).
Following the current trend of super-​sized drinks that can’t fit into your cup holders, Honey Bee has both milk teas as well as milk ice drinks that don’t contain tea but instead use flavored milk-​ice-​slush with not just boba but HONEY boba (take the hint from the store name). You can choose two out of three options for your milk ice drink: honey boba, egg pudding, or grass jelly, as well as adjust the sweetness level of your drink.
For milk teas I believe it costs extra to add boba.
I got the Honey Bee icy milk drink at 50% sugar and honey boba only and found that the honey boba had more than enough sweetness to compensate for the halved sugar of the milk slush. It made for a pretty good balance. The balls were at the appropriate chewiness as well.
AMBIENCE
They recently underwent renovations, and although I can’t speak for what this place looked like beforehand it is super cute now! Hexagonal tiles decorate the walls in shades of white and yellow-​orange. There are tables as well as booths and overall it makes for a good study and hang out spot!
SERVICE
They initially made my drink with boba as well as egg pudding. I was initially just going to deal with it, but decided that the addition of egg pudding was too much extra sweetness. When I took it back to them they apologized and remade my drink sans pudding. Yay good customer service :)
Check this place out, you’ll get bang for your buck!

I have only visited once, but with the Unilocal reviews had high hopes that it would be great tea. The teahouse is very well maintained with nice roomy tables for groups to sit at or people to study quietly. There is a flatscreen tv, and overall it’s well decorated.
However, I didn’t like that you can’t see how your drink is being made. That’s something that I really like about most tea places and I also like visually seeing how fresh the «jellies» and whatnot are before ordering. The menu was very extensive which was nice, and I settled on a Vietnamese coffee, non-​dairy milk, and coffee jellies. It took about 5 minutes to get my drink and also they gave me a frequent-​member punch card. The drink came in this cute fat cup which I liked.
The drink was delicious! I enjoyed it all and sat there for maybe more than an hour talking with my friend. She also got the same drink as me, but half sweetened instead of full sweetened.
Little did we know that later on about 2 hours later we would both feel sick. I don’t know if they forgot to put NON-​dairy milk in the drinks (as we are both semi-​intolerant) or what, but it wasn’t fun.