Cha For Tea - Long Beach

5720 E 7th St, Long Beach, CA

★★★★4.4(605 Google reviews)

Crema's Take

Cha For Tea is a vibrant student hangout right next to Cal State Long Beach that's built a loyal following for customizable milk teas and creative specialty drinks where you can really make it your own. They've earned genuine affection for their solid food offerings and thoughtful touches like multiple milk options, though recent visitors note the execution can be inconsistent—sometimes missing custom orders or presentation fumbles that feel careless for the price point. If you're in the area craving a matcha or boba with flexibility in how you build your drink, it's still worth the stop, especially if you catch them on an attentive day.

What to expect

Matcha & teaSpecialty drinksLight foodTraditional drinksSignature drinksQuick grab

Google Reviews

Debbie alvarez
★★★★★3 months ago

The prices are great. And love the food and tea, get it how you like it. It would be nice if they had rewards program. Its next to Cal State, student spot.

Lupita
★★★★★5 months ago

Usually love going and the drinks and food are great. I ordered online just this once but they missed 2 order notes. One of my drinks had no sweetener and was missing the add on I paid for. :( I recommend going in person so you can double check your drink is correct.

Bess Kussner (Basya)
★★★★★5 months ago

I used to LOVE coming here after class from CSULB. Unfortunately, it's gone downhill over the years. I recently came for boba. There were 4 people behind the counter (no other orders), yet they were just talking and waiting around. My drink took roughly 15 minutes and the boba was overcooked. Bummer.

Eric Gardner
★★★★★7 months ago

Food is solid and all but to get a to go order in this box and the chicken be thrown into a bag and now my rice stuck to bag, could've give me the normal plastic container I'd get without having my rice stuck to paper bag yall did me dirty this time around

Tina
★★★★★a year ago

I love that they have various milk options. I would however say that the default on the peach green tea milk tea was five pumps of sweetener, which was way too much for me personally. Points off for the straw being a paper straw and the lid being like a dixie cup sort of lid and not that satisfying bubble tea portable sealed plastic that you get to satisfyingly stab which I'm sure is a side effect of the weak paper straw. I ordered bubble tea. of course I want to stab something. I'm really disappointed that I don't get to. Also, I kind of wanted to wait out the traffic here. There were two open tables inside but they were both dirty covered in sauce and/or tea. I grabbed some napkins and tried to wipe one of them down but whatever it was was too sticky and half dried on the table and so I couldn't get it clean enough to want to sit there. The upholstery is kind of beat up too so it wasn't looking super inviting. All that said, if I'm headed out of Long Beach on another occasion I'll probably stop here and order with no sweetener, to go, and I actually typically have at least one random boba straw in the car...

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