Hollin 赫里- Look Forward to a Unique Pearl Flavour Everyday!

Located at Toa Payoh Central is Hollin, a relatively new bubble tea shop. The brand originated from Taiwan, and has a few outlets in China as well.

The interior decor at Hollin is a sight to behold — pretty pastel pink walls, and a beautiful artificial flower display. The flowers are in different hues of blue and white, and is the perfect backdrop for photo-taking.

What’s special about Hollin is that they offer a different variety of pearls each day — Monday(bittersweet matcha pearls), Tuesday(rich cocoa pearls), Wednesday(palmy coconut pearls), Thursday(invigorating coffee pearls) Friday(roasty peanut pearls), Saturdays(lustrous black sesame pearls) and Sundays(fresh rock salt pearls) They offer honey white pearls daily, should you not be a fan of the pearls available that day.

The pearls at Hollin are all made in-house. And, if you’re lucky, you’ll be able to witness the making of the pearls at ‘The Pearl Incubator’, which is located just beside the counter. The staff told us that they make the pearls in the morning daily, and will remake them when stock runs low.

We visited the outlet on a Friday and tried their roasty peanut pearls, which costs an additional $0.70 on top of the drink. We paired the peanut pearls with the HOLLIN Black Tea Latte (Medium: $3.20, Large: $4.20) with a 25% sugar level and less ice. The flavours of the black tea did come through, and there was a good amount of milk that did not overpower the astringent taste of the tea. I thought that the chewy pearls didn’t have much of a peanut taste, albeit a tad gritty(possibly from the presence of peanut bits).

We also tried their Honey Black Tea Latte (Medium: $4.20, Large: $5.20) with the honey white pearls. We couldn’t really taste the difference between the honey tea latte and the black tea latte, and the only difference in taste came from the pearls. The honey pearls were sweeter, softer and springier, and had that lovely honey flavour.

The store also has a line of Rock Salt Macchiatos that come in different tea variations. There’s black tea (Medium: $3.20, Large: $4.20), matcha (Medium: $4.20, Large: $5.20) and even caramel tea (Medium: $4.20, Large: $5.20)! We tried the matcha version, and we felt that there was a severe lack of matcha flavours in the drink. The foam on top was salty and creamy, but the matcha macchiato underneath tasted very similar to the other black teas that we had.

While we felt that the teas could definitely use some work, we appreciated the fact that a different version of pearls is available daily. I’m looking forward to trying their bittersweet matcha pearls, which are only available on Mondays!

MissTamChiak.com made an anonymous visit and paid its own meal at the stall featured here.

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