Tea Talk (三生茶语) is a bubble tea shop at 6a/23 Corinthian Drive in Albany, on Auckland's North Shore, rated 4.7 from 368 Google reviews; customers mention a $9.90 three-item deal, staff who happily recommend drinks, and favourites such as mango sago and peach gum milk tea, though one notes it isn't the cheapest bubble tea around. In this trade, texture is half the pleasure. Chinese-style tea houses build drinks around chewy or jelly-like toppings — peach gum, sago, grass jelly — that turn a drink into something closer to dessert. Sugar levels are usually adjustable, and regulars often take sweet fruit teas at thirty per cent so the real pulp can speak. A good topping is tender with a gentle bounce; a tough, undercooked batch is the classic misfire. When the menu overwhelms, ask what the house does best. On Corinthian Drive in Albany, Tea Talk gives North Shore tea drinkers a convenient place to explore that topping-forward style.