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3491 19th St
San Francisco, CA 94110
USA

415-967-2622

We grew up drinking milk tea and to this day are still obsessed about it. We started Boba Guys as a way to share the milk tea we remember from our childhood (only this time with fresh ingredients; none of the powdered stuff).

We use only the finest ingredients: Straus Family Creamery organic milk accompanied with homebrewed heirloom organic tea from Five Mountains. Our syrup and almond jelly is homemade and we use Grade A balls. (We just like saying that. )

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Two Boba Guys drinks

WE'VE BEEN FORTUNATE ENOUGH TO HAVE SOME NICE THINGS SAID ABOUT US... 

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The New York Times

A Street Cart Helps Move a Museum Into The Future

The chef Deuki Hong and two partners, Andrew and Bin, won the job of revamping the menu at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco by breaking the rules. 



Bin Chen and Andrew Chau at Boba Guys pop-up

WRITE-UPS THROUGH THE YEARS

February 2017: CBS SF |Bay Area Coffee Shops Unite to Collect, Match Donations to ACLU

February 2017: Urban Daddy | A Tea Shop Where You Get Fried Chicken

January 2017: Vogue | Is Boba the New Matcha? Bubble Tea Grows Up

January 2017: SF Eater | Discover Sunday Bird, a Much-Hyped Korean Fried Chicken Joint Hidden Behind Boba Guys

January 2017: Bold Italic | The Boba Guys Just Want You to Love Their Balls

January 2017: Gothamist | The 9 Best Bubble Tea Spots In NYC

January 2017: GQ Taiwan

January 2017: Boba Guys Wins BRASSY Award

October 2016: World Tea News |Booming with the Boba Guys: From 2011 Pop-up to 2016 Growing Empire

September 2016: Hoodline | Boba Guys Expansion Headed To Former Auto Body Shop On Divisadero

September 2016: Insider | An NYC shop is combining the joys of bubble tea and matcha

September 2016: SF Gate | Boba Guys’ new Hayes Valley flagship looks way beyond SF

August 2016: Zagat | Canal Street Market: NYC to Get Another Food Hall Very Soon

August 2016: NY Eater | Chinatown Jumps Into Food Hall Fray With Planned New Market on Canal

June 2016: 7x7 | Boba Guys Opens Hayes Valley Flagship

May 2016: SF Eater | Boba Guys Flagship Store to Introduce Nitro Tea, Savory Onigiri, Asian Toast

March 2016: Bob Cut Mag | SF’s Favorite Milk Tea: The American Boba Foodie’s Crave

March 2016: NPR | Bubble Tea Is Back — With A Vengeance

February 2016: Nissan Rogue Ad Campaign

February 2016: NYU News | No Longer a Pop-up, The Boba Guys Serve Organic Bubble Tea in SoHo

January 2016: NY Eater | Team From SF's Boba Guys to Debut a Permanent New York Shop on Saturday

January 2016: Quartz | America is a coffee country—does bubble tea stand a chance?

January 2016: Wall Street Journal | The Feed: Bubble Tea Gets Artisanal Treatment

January 2016: Grub Street | Here’s the Varsity-Level Bubble Tea That’s Earned a Cult Following

December 2015: Passion Stories | Bin Chen, Co-Founder of Boba Guys

October 2015: Biz Journal | San Francisco's 'Boba Guys' plot expansion beyond Bay Area (Video)

July 2015: KQED | Audio Postcard: Dumpling Wars takes on ‘Game of Thrones’ Theme

May 2015: UpOut | 10 of the Best Boba Spots in San Francisco

January 2015: Bold Italic | The Only Boba Guide You Need

October 2014: NBC News | From Dumplings to Bubble Tea, Asian Street Food Goes Artisanal

September 2014: SF Gate | Bubble Tea: The Fad That Forgot to Fade

May 2014: Square Pickup Ad

January 2014: Food GPS |Boba Guys: Aardvark Approved Boba in San Francisco

February 2013: Chow.com | Chinese New Year's with San Francisco's Boba Guys

January 2013: EaterSF | Boba Guys to Open Mission Brick-and-Mortar

March 2012: Taiwanese American.org | Bubble Tea with the Boba Guys

December 2011: Tasting Table | The Boba Revolution Starts Now

December 2011: Mission Local | Meet the Boba Guys  

September 26, 2011 (first ever write-up) : Mission Mission | Bubble Up and Explode

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