Vanilla Ice Cream Mixed With Iced Earl Grey Tea, Is It Good Or Not?

Hello my dear friends…
I drink a lot of tea and its combination of tea in my life but never have i ever thought about combine tea with ice cream before. Have you ever seen it? Or, have you ever try it? Its a menu so strange to the point that i decided to try it the moment i saw it. In this post, i will share about the drink i talked about and the brand that sells them.

This is Mixue. If you live in Indonesia, you might heard about this brand at least once in your life. It seems like wherever we go now, we can find the branch of this brand. Its crazy that they have a lot of branches in a lot of city in such a short time. I have been in at least 5 cities in the past 2 months and all of them have Mixue already. Their place is quite eye catching because of the combination of red and white in their logo. Not only that, they also have a cute big cone ice cream statue in front of their place. I find it very cute. Since they’re everywhere, i get this social pressure to try them. Its somehow feels wrong to have something everywhere yet i dont try them. I want to know and understand whats the hype about this place and what is the reason why they can grow so fast like that.

After looking at the menu and the place, i can tell already few points of the reason why Mixue was so popular and able to grow so fast. I will talk about them one by one, which is :

• Price
  As we can see from the menu, the price range that they have in this place is crazily cheap. Its way way cheaper than their competitive brand to the point that its questioning. Usually, their price range are for the type drink we can buy from the small drink stall in near of the main roads.
• The Place
  In almost every Mixue i have ever seen, i always saw that they have a cafe or coffee shop setting. As it related to the first point, its rare for place with this range of price have the cafe or coffee shop setting where people can enjoy sitting and hang out in there for hours. Its a perfect place for teenagers that wants to do some homework while still get the feeling of “hang out” in a chic or cute cafe.
• “Menu”
  They have some interesting menu in there. Some of them are the combination i have never seen before in my life. I often drink coffee with ice cream, i think that delicious. Well, except affogato. I ordered them once before and can only finished the vanilla ice cream as the coffee was too bitter for me. I cant stop cringing at the first scoop and i dont understand why and how some people can enjoy them.

This is the star of the post and the reason why i was so hooked after i saw the menu. Its the iced tea with vanilla ice cream. Its not just the tea, its earl grey tea. People that know me must know how obsessed i was with earl grey. I have tried a lot of earl grey variant such as cupcakes, cream, cookies, ice cream, etc i cant even remember them all to list them. As an earl grey lover, i have never imagine trying earl grey tea and vanilla ice cream together. They’re both great on their own but how it is if we combine them? The answer are :

Its Horrible

I dont know if its just me, but i am not someone too sensitive when it cames to earl grey tea. I dont think its sacred to the point that it shouldnt be experimented with, but not with vanilla ice cream because its just erase both of the good side of them two.