Boba Bar and Desserts - inside Zion Market

Hello.  You've found mmm-yoso!!!-a food blog. Kirk, Ed(fromYuma) and Cathy usually write here.  The central focus on our posts is food.  Today, Cathy is focusing.

Since I went to/posted about Zion Market on the first day of its 'soft' opening at the new location, The Mister and I have returned several times for regular grocery, meat, seafood and produce shopping. Slowly, the other storefronts on the West side of the expansive former KMart have been opening.  I saw a news story that the official 'Grand Opening' will be this upcoming weekend (June 28).

I took this photo from the South Western corner of the building, in front of CDD Tofu & Grill (an upcoming post).  You can see the wide expanse of space the market and other businesses occupy. (The news story said 100,000 square feet).  All of the lighting is retrofitted LEDs - very energy efficient. Boba Bar and Desserts is very colorful.  Kirbie has a post about her visit which has some better photos of the menu.

The ice creams are '100% natural' according to the Boba Bar and Desserts Facebook page (there is no website).  Some of the flavors have me curious...

The corner glass refrigerated section contains Vietnamese puddings and jellies and on this visit, these lucious looking chocolate dipped strawberries.

We decided to try some basics on this first visit: An iced Vietnamese coffee ($3) and milk green tea ($2.75).  No boba, no syrup/sweetener/condensed milk. The coffee was very smooth and strong and the milk tea had a good tea flavor, which is the way I like it.

We wanted the beverages to go with my 'regular' purchase from Zion- the freshly made fish pancakes.  Since the food court area was relatively empty, this was a nice way to relax for a snack before the drive home...

However, we were there, it wasn't crowded, sweets were beckoning...the Shaved Snow machine was calling.

The "Deluxe" size (16 oz) is $4 and includes two toppings as well as a sauce of condensed milk.  I decided on the green tea shaved snow and was told it had just been made the night before and the texture may not be correct.  I ordered it, and asked for no condensed milk and two of the fresh fruit toppings...

You can see this was more of a fluffy ice texture...

which melted in the mouth the same way the ribbons of shaved snow usually do.  The deep green tea flavor was excellent and unadulterated by not having the condensed milk...the fresh blueberries and macerated strawberries were very complimentary.

We'll try other offerings on our next shopping trip here.  Everything was very good. The people working are very nice and helpful.

Boba Bar and Desserts Clairmont Mesa Boulevard San Diego 92111(inside Zion Marketplace at Convoy Street) 619-940-4190 open 9 am-9 pm daily

Comments

[caninecologne]

So exciting that Zion will finally have their 'Grand' Opening.

TC and her friend had boba slushies a few days ago. Unfortunately they did not like it - the texture of the boba was too "soft" and they said it was kind of slimy feeling. Ewwww. You'd think a place called Boba Bar would have good boba. I'd like to try their iced coffee and the shaved snow for a future visit.

[yummyyummie]

The iced coffee and shaved snow look good. Have you tried the coffee at Paris Baguette?

[Cathy]

The Grand Opening should make for a pretty crowded parking area, but I bet there will be even more samples and sales, cc...torn as to whether to go there or avoid the area. I think Boba Bar will last; even with boba slime. The other items we got were very good.

The items at Boba Bar were very good, yy. I haven't purchased anything at this Zion location of Paris Baguette, but have had Americano coffees (very good) at the HMart location-even put a photo of the coffee cup at the bottom of this post: http://mmm-yoso.typepad.com/mmmyoso/2012/11/paris-baguette-inside-h-mart-.html

[Gregsandiego]

Oh wow. Great to find you guys are still blogging. I had lost track of mmm-yoso until I saw the mention in the UT today.

[Cathy]

Thanks, Greg. The blog's been going for more than seven years now. We try to post daily or not to skip more than two days in a row; good thing you've got time to catch up!