Joy of Tea

I was craving a beef bun so we decided to stop here on a whim. boy we are glad we did! we ordered one beef bun between the two of us, and a beer. while our order was prepared for us, we quickly gathered the sriracha, and plenty of napkins, and found a spot to stand without getting in the way of other customers. i let my boyfriend take a bite first and he ended up finishing the entire beef bun! needless to say we ordered two more. the beer was also delicious and we are not beer people. we stopped by this place second time in the same day. that’s how good the beef bun was.

Overheated and in need of a boba tea. We ordered and it was just ok. The texture of the boba was chewy and the tea was overt sweet. Lower expectations are the name of the food game at Walt Disney World.

Maybe we tried the Joy of Tea at an off time, but our pork buns were hard… So hard that we left them over. I did the curry puffs had good flavor, but they were ok. I am not an egg roll lover, but those happen to be my favorite from this booth. Maybe it’s because they were the freshest? Next time, I’d definitely get a frozen or tea drink here and would probably skip the food.

Overall: 3.25 Stars
A refreshing stand with a mixture of teas and frozen drinks. The flavors are good and out of the ordinary. I don’t recall the last time I had anything with cantaloupe in it. On a hot day it is worth a visit especially since it is difficult to find shade in China. However, I feel something is missing. The tea is good, but there isn’t enough variation when it comes to ice cold tea. I guess tea is usually meant to be served hot, but since you are in the unforgiving Florida sun, hot tea isn’t an option. Either way Joy of tea is worth a shot if you want to try something different.

The slushy we had was super tasty! Mango tasted like real ones not the artificial flavored kind. We definitely would go back for all the other different flavors. The service was good too. The services were really friendly. There was a long line but they let us taste the difference flavors which was really nice.

I got the Mango Green tea slush. It was really good. The service was also awesome and friendly. If I visit Disney World again, I will definitely stop by again.

As part of our unique eat around the world mission at the World Showcase in EPCOT, we stopped in at the small Joy of Tea food hut outside of the China pavilion and grabbed a BBQ pork bun and an iced mango green tea to eat and drink on the go. The pork bun bread to filling ratio was way too tilted to the bread side which was also not tender and dryer than would be expected. The filling was overly sweet and didn’t have much pork flavor.
The iced mango green tea was overly sweet and barely had any green tea flavor. Mango was the predominant taste and had some of the positive floral aspects that I would associate with real mango although it was so sweet it had to be a syrup of some sort. Unfortunately cloying, this could be decent if the sweetness was WAY toned down.

If you’re a huge planner like I am, you should know in advance not to get the pork buns.
They’re like dry, high school cafeteria rolls with just a tablespoon of pork in them. I really hope that sometime in the future Disney will switch over to much more tasty cha siu bao. Seriously, these are awful compared to other (more well made) varieties around the world.

There are 3 things I really love.
1. oolong tea
2. peaches
3. alcohol
I’m also a pretty big fan of frozen drinks and China (obviously, given the love of oolong). So I was beyond excited to learn of the Peach Snap. It was hard to bring myself to wait until about 6pm to have one.
Normally I don’t mix my tea and alcohol because I don’t want to lose the flavor of the tea. The Peach Snap totally works! I could definitely taste oolong in there. Not as strong as I would like (which would probably lose many people drinking it), but still good enough. If I drink a flavored oolong, it has to be peach, so this is basically the most perfect alcoholic drink to me that isn’t beer.
It was just what I needed with how dang hot it was. I wish I knew how to make them myself but really, it was perfect. For the most part carrying around anything else, it got warm too quickly. But with a frozen drink, you don’t have to worry about that. And since it’s tea, it feels extra refreshing. The alcohol isn’t obvious, granted it is just schnapps, so if you’re looking for a buzz this isn’t your drink and you should head back to Mexico for a frozen margarita. So good!

I love this little booth. It serves up small food items and several different kind of drinks.
For now I’m reviewing the 2 drinks I’ve had here.
I enjoy the Canta-​loopy — It’s basically very simple cantaloupe juice and vodka. It’s a very classic simple taste and isn’t too sweet.
Today they were out of it and I went with the Mango Gingerita. This was Amazing. The mango served for the nice sweet fruity part of the drink and the ginger was balance with a little bit of the gingery spiciness to it.
It’s not everyday that a an out of stock item makes you choose something that you end up loving so much.

Is there anyway to get relief from the hellish humidity in Florida?
The answer to that question is HELL NO!
But the ice cold mango green tea smoothie I purchased from the Joy of Tea stand was refreshing!
Joy of Tea, which is located in the China section of EPCOT’S world showcase, is a small stand that offers different types of teas, smoothies, Chinese alcoholic beverages, Chinese flavored ice cream and Chinese snacks.
The day we visited EPCOT was not terribly humid but it was still humid enough to make us sweat a bit. While touring China, which was about 2pm or so, the heat started getting a bit more intense so my wife and I each decided to buy a mango green tea smoothie to help cool us off. We also decided to split an order of BBQ pork buns. The smoothies were super tasty and refreshing. The BBQ pork buns were OK, not the best I have had but still a tasty snack.
The smoothies were about $ 4.50 a piece and an order of pork buns (2 per order) was $ 4.50. I guess these prices are a tad high… but then again, what isn’t expensive at a theme park?!
The women who were working in this stand were super friendly and got us our orders out very quickly.
If you’re visiting EPCOT and need a refreshing, ice cold beverage to help quench your thirst then stop by the Joy of Tea stand in China. However, like I stated above, nothing in this world but an instant ice storm could relieve you from the nasty humid weather in Florida.

PEACH SNAP!!!
So we all had lunch next door at the La Cantina De San Angel and the food from there was not settling in our stomachs well. I could feel the grease just sitting in my stomach. But long and behold, there’s the Joy of Tea in the China Pavilion next door (bless you Epcot).
I knew I needed something fast to get that nasty grease out of my stomach so I saw the Peach Snap! — a combination of peach schnapps and oolong tea in a refreshing slushy.
AHHHHH…
That Peach Snap! really hit the stop and the oolong tea flushed all that nasty grease away.
Every time we were in the vicinity of the Joy of Tea (Hey, the Monorail takes you from the Ticket and Transportation Center to Epcot, let’s go!) we had to get Peach Snap! especially to clean out the nastiness we ate with the oolong tea.
Good: Peach Snap!!!
Bad: There’s not one in every park.
Final: Get some Peach Snap!