Tuesday, September 18th, 2007
I made a Starbucks run with John one afternoon. As has been my usual custom all summer, I ordered blueberry white tea lemonade. Unfortunately, the barista informed me that they were all out! Apparently, it was a seasonal summer drink and will not be available for ordering anymore. 
With this piece of news in mind, I had to think back to what I used to order before the blueberry white tea lemonade came along. I finally settled on the passion tea lemonade. As is my custom with most sweetened icy drinks at Starbucks, I asked for half-sweet and light ice.
I used to really like the passion tea lemonade…but this time, I found it to be too tangy. I don’t know if this is because I had grown so attached to the blueberry lemonade over the summer or if it had to do with this particular cup. 
I’ll probably give it one more try before knocking it off my list of favourite Starbucks drinks for good.
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various locations
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Monday, August 27th, 2007
John and I went for coffee at the Starbucks near our work the other day. By “coffee”, we just mean drinks…seeing that neither of us are big coffee drinkers.
All summer, I’ve been drinking the summer special drink of blueberry white tea lemonade. I normally get my iced drinks at Starbucks with half syrup and easy/light ice. I find that the full syrup drinks are a bit too sweet with me. The lemonade and blueberry syrup make for a nice and refreshing summer drink.
John decided to have the green tea latte. If you can get over the green colour, it actually tastes quite good! It comes with a shot of melon syrup which is hard to pick out at first but adds an interesting twist to the drink.
The thing I like the most about Starbucks is their seasonal drinks. Although they tend to be on the pricey side for a coffee or tea, it is a nice indulgence on a summer day.
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Starbucks is located basically on every other block in the Lower Mainland. You shouldn’t have trouble finding one but the one I went to was at the corner of Kingsway and Boundary in Vancouver.
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Thursday, August 16th, 2007
John, Louis, Chris, and I went to the Bubble World on Kingsway & Wilson the other day. It was after work and a nice way to wind down. Although it is Bubble World, none of us ordered bubbles along with our drinks. Bubble World offers a take-0ut menu along with its eat-in service with the take-out being about $0.50-0.75 cheaper in general.
I settled on the passion fruit green tea. This was one of my favourite tea house drinks for a while because I find the tangy passion fruit flavour blends really well with the green tea.
Chris had the pomegranate green tea. Although the pomegranate taste was not very strong, the drink itself was a nice shade of red.
John wasn’t feeling well so he went with the hot drink option for his honey lemon green tea. He said that you can taste the honey flavour more than in a cold drink and found that it was perfect for his throat, which was still a bit sore.
Louis decided to go with the taro slush drink. If anything, this was a refreshing drink to have on a hot, sunny day. At $4.50, it was also the most expensive of our three drinks.
In general, I don’t like Bubble World because they charge more for in-restaurant drinks than take-out drinks. At the same time, the in-restaurant drinks are quite a bit smaller than the drinks you get when you do take-out. To me, this just does not make sense! However, as it is so close to where I work, it is the de facto bubble tea place we go to on most weekdays.
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4300 Kingsway, Burnaby
Tel: 604-434-5551
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