CHA+ 茶家 Chaplus is a bubble tea shop on Lincoln Road in Henderson, West Auckland, rated 3.6 from 93 Google reviews. Customers mention coming back often for the slushies, the sweetness of the brown sugar drinks, caramel jelly balls and roasted oolong milk tea, and some reviews single out the friendly service by name.
Bubble tea lives or dies on two things: the tea base and the pearls. The best cups start with properly brewed tea — a roasted oolong or fresh brown sugar base rather than a powdered mix — and tapioca pearls cooked fresh through the day, so they stay chewy to the centre rather than turning hard. Most shops adjust sugar and ice on request, and it is worth doing: a classic milk tea at half sweetness shows you the standard before branching out into slushies and jelly toppings.
On Lincoln Road in the heart of Henderson, CHA+ makes an easy stop on a West Auckland tea run.