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Formosa Tea Cafe
About Formosa Tea Cafe
Formosa is the older name for Taiwan, and on a cafe sign it points to a particular tradition: tea brewed strong and served cold, tapioca pearls, fruit and milk teas built to order with the sweetness and the ice adjusted to taste. Formosa Tea Cafe operates at 2070 Harvey Avenue, sharing its address with two other businesses on the Dilworth stretch of Kelowna's busiest commercial road.
Tea counters of this kind are more customisable than most drink shops, and that is rather the point. Sugar level, ice level and topping are each chosen separately, so the same drink can arrive light and barely sweet or thick and closer to dessert depending on how you order it. If you have not done this before, asking for half sugar is a safer starting point than accepting the default. Menus in this line usually run long, with fruit teas, milk teas and coffee sitting alongside one another, and the queue tends to move in bursts. The website at formosateacafe.ca and the number 778 478 3737 will both get you further than guessing from the car park.
This part of Harvey Avenue is Kelowna at its most car dependent, a corridor of plazas and turn lanes below the Dilworth hillside, and the left turns are the thing to plan around. It is also central in a way the prettier districts are not, roughly equidistant from downtown, Rutland and the Mission, which makes it a practical meeting point when the people involved are coming from different corners of a city that sprawls as much as this one.
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