Tastea 真好喝 is a dessert and bubble tea shop at 450 Clementi Avenue 3, #01-283, a short walk from Clementi MRT Exit D. It belongs to a small family of outlets run under Old Cheng Du Sichuan Cuisine Restaurant, alongside sister shops at Suntec City, Westgate and Paya Lebar.
The brand grew out of Old Cheng Du's chef's special Herb Tea, a bestseller that inspired the group to open its first drink and cold dessert store at Jurong Point in 2013. Renamed Tastea 真好喝 in 2015 and later based at People's Park near the Chinatown flagship, the shop has drawn locals and tourists since 2016.
The management made repeated trips to Taiwan to study the craft, importing carefully selected tea leaves and raw materials from Taiwan to Singapore. The result is a menu built on handmade taro ball desserts and Taiwan-style pearl milk tea, spreading into milk tea, brown sugar fresh milk, smoothie, fresh fruit tea and cheese tea series.
There is a simple loyalty perk too: buy eight cups and get one free — just remember to collect a points card at the counter.
Tastea 真好喝 at 450 Clementi Avenue 3, #01-283, pours Taiwan-style bubble tea and serves handmade taro ball desserts a short walk from Clementi MRT Exit D. It looks like a neighbourhood drinks stop, but its pedigree is unusual: the shop is a dessert venture of Old Cheng Du Sichuan Cuisine Restaurant, a Chinatown institution better known for Sichuan classics and mala hotpot than mango sago.
Old Cheng Du was established in 2007 by top culinary chefs. Its flagship restaurant spans three storeys — about 4,300 square feet — of a quaint shophouse in Chinatown, and over more than a decade it has fed both locals and foreign fans, spawning sister outlets such as Frog Meat Fish Head Hot Pot and Old Chengdu Ma La Tang. Its Sichuan braised delights also reach customers through online delivery and supermarkets, with plans over the years that have included a Changi Airport Terminal One store and talks with Koufu about food-court stalls islandwide.
The dessert chapter began with a teapot. The chef's special Herb Tea at Old Cheng Du became such a bestseller — reportedly more than $10,000 a month — that the team opened its first drink and cold dessert store at Jurong Point in 2013. In 2015 the shop took the name Tastea 真好喝 and moved to People's Park, near the flagship restaurant. Since June 2016 it has drawn plenty of the Chinese diners and tourists hunting for food around 牛车水 (Chinatown), and the brand now also runs shops at Suntec City, Westgate and Paya Lebar, several inside Scarlett supermarkets.
There is a reason the drinks lean distinctly Taiwanese. The management made repeated trips to Taiwan to study the craft, then imported carefully selected tea leaves, with raw materials shipped from Taiwan to Singapore. That sourcing sits behind the menu's two headline acts: handmade taro ball desserts (手工芋圆) and Taiwan-style pearl milk tea (台湾珍珠奶茶).
Around those signatures, the drink list opens out into five series — special mixed milk teas (特调奶茶), brown sugar fresh milk (黑糖鲜奶), icy smoothies (冰沙), fresh fruit teas (新鲜水果茶) and cheese teas (芝士茶饮). It is a spread wide enough that a group of five can order five very different cups and each person leaves happy.
The shop's own featured photos hint at the favourites. Taro milk tea (香芋奶茶) is the comfort order, creamy and fragrant, while brown sugar milk tea (黑糖奶茶) covers the caramel-leaning camp. On the fruit side, pineapple passionfruit green tea (凤梨百香果绿茶) is a bright, tart refresher that suits Singapore's climate, and the wider fresh fruit tea series keeps things light.
Over on the dessert half of the menu, mango pomelo sago (杨枝甘露) is the classic chilled pick — do note its sweetness comes as it is, with no sugar adjustments — and the evocatively named Ten-Mile Peach Grove (十里桃林) rounds out the featured line-up. Beneath everything still sits that founding brew, the chef's special herb tea, the item that started the whole venture.
You will find the shop at 450 Clementi Avenue 3, #01-283, Singapore 120450, within easy reach of Clementi MRT Exit D — handy whether you live nearby, work around the interchange, or are changing trains on a long commute. Service is counter-style and quick: order, collect, and you are on your way with a cup in hand.
One habit worth building from your first visit: the loyalty card. Every eight cups earns a free one, but only if you remember to collect a points card at the counter when you pay.
If you have questions before heading down, the team can be reached on WhatsApp at +65 9114 3993, and the brand's website keeps a popularity ranking (人气排行榜) of its drinks if you would rather not decide at the counter.
A cold cheese tea or a bowl of chewy taro balls makes a fitting full stop to a spicy hawker lunch or a mala night — fitting, given that this little tea counter belongs to a Sichuan restaurant family that knows a thing or two about cooling a heated palate.