Arlington has no shortage of boba tea shops, but surely none quite this pink: Called P'tit Tea Maison, it's a tea shop that Tik Tok calls the "cutest all-pink boba tea shop" and it opened the first week of November at 2745 N. Collins St. #113.
Serving tea and Asian-style mochi doughnuts, the shop is in Riverview Village, a typical shopping center just north of I-30, anchored by Tom Thumb. But once you enter, it's an unexpected pink oasis with pale pink walls and a long pink banquette lined with pink pillows. One wall has fake greenery with a pair of neon angel wings, where you can pose or hoist your drink for a photo, right beneath the neon halo.
The menu features teas, smoothies, bingsu (Korean-style shaved ice desserts), and coffee drinks made with Vietnamese coffee. Most go far beyond the realm of beverage, verging more on dessert, with rich, exotic, trendy toppings and additions.
For example, there's a drink called Lychee & Rose, which features oolong tea topped with "cheese cream," a thick foam topping that's like an amped-up version of whipped cream, containing cream cheese, heavy cream, milk, and sugar. The presence of cheese adds a salty flavor that contrasts with the sweetness of the tea.
Sink back into the pink pillows.P'Tit Tea Maison
There are five coffee drinks: authentic Vietnamese coffee, Vietnamese milk coffee, Vietnamese coconut milk coffee, and two versions of dalgona, the sweet Korean-inspired coffee drink which comes topped with a coffee-and-sugar foam.
Pretty much every cutting-edge Asian-inspired drink is here and then some, including black sugar tiger milk tea (in which ribbons of thick brown sugar syrup are drizzled on the inside of the cup to give it a stripey appearance), plus less-common beverages such as their Blue Pea Flower Series in which butterfly pea flower petals are added to tint the drink blue; and sakura foam, a creamy topper that adds a floral, cherry flavor.
Other extras include boba pearls, lychee jelly, and chia seeds. They give two unique customization options: how much sugar you want and how much ice, ranging from lots of ice to no ice. This is some macro-level choicing.
They also serve mochi doughnuts, the moist, chewy bumpy-looking doughnut made with rice flour.
P'Tit is no relation to Tea Maison in Las Vegas, another boba tea shop that favors pink, and is owned by Ni-Nhien Nguyen, a Vietnamese native who was previously in marketing for a variety of retail companies. It's open Monday-Saturday 10 am-8 pm, and Sunday 10 am-7 pm.
