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Shaka Shaka Tea Express

Cafe

👍 Mango green tea is delish, also like the Taro milk tea with just Taro chunks. Boba is always cooked perfect. Overall very yummy. Also like the fact that they use real fruit People often mention drinks, boba, smoothie, Shaka, taste, good,


Address

848 Ala Lilikoi St, Honolulu, HI 96818

Website

shakashakateaexpress.com

Contact

(808) 836-6839

Price rating

$ $$$

Rating on Google Maps

4.30 (85 reviews)

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Working Hours

  • Thursday: 9:30 AM to 9:30 PM
  • Friday: (Good Friday), 9:30 AM to 9:30 PM, Hours might differ
  • Saturday: 9:30 AM to 9:30 PM
  • Sunday: (Easter), 9:30 AM to 9:30 PM, Hours might differ
  • Monday: 9:30 AM to 9:30 PM
  • Tuesday: 9:30 AM to 9:30 PM
  • Wednesday: 10 AM to 9:30 PM

Featured Reviews


Frequently mentioned in reviews: drinks (19) boba (13) smoothie (8) Shaka (7) taste (6) good (6)
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  • 4/5 Kelly W. 1 year ago on Google
    Mango green tea is delish, also like the Taro milk tea with just Taro chunks. Boba is always cooked perfect. Overall very yummy. Also like the fact that they use real fruit
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 4/5 Russ L. 1 year ago on Google
    What's great about this place is that they use real fruit for the smoothie. Also they sell a lot of the popular Asian style snacks here. We ordered : Taro Smoothie Pineapple/Mango Smoothie Honey Lemon Ice Boba The boba was perfect consistency, however all drinks was too sweet for our taste. Next time maybe we can try less sweetness level. Service was friendly and efficient.
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 LSSSN Wolcott A. 2 years ago on Google
    Delicious Boba and they also had very good macaroons!

  • 5/5 Alexandria W. 10 months ago on Google
    This is my favorite lunch spot when I am fasting!! All natural drinks!! My fav. is the Pineapple Kiwi or Pineapple ginger smoother!!

  • 5/5 alyh3 8 months ago on Google
    Last stop on the flight back home…Great Smoothies and Macaroons! The cashier was super friendly and kind.

  • 2/5 Judyany P. 10 months ago on Google
    The stuff itself is ok but it is extremely unsanitary first off they have a fish tank in the front thats so dirty you can't even see the poor fish in there yes they still have fish in there. Service is slow and the guy making the drinks continually wipes his nose and goes back to making the drinks there also a girl that helps with food prep in the back that was sneaking things into her mouth while working

  • 1/5 Asuncion C. 8 months ago on Google
    Blah! It was a watered-down version of a smoothie. No taste. I kept drinking it hoping to taste the mango taste in it. It was a bright yellow smoothie with zero taste. That explains why no one was in there.

  • 5/5 Christina Y. 1 year ago on Google
    Great customer service, yummy boba drinks! We ordered the Taro Black Milk Tea with boba and Black Tea Cappuccino with boba 🧋 🧋 Delicious!

  • 5/5 Captain S. 1 year ago on Google
    The melon hard candies, honeydew and watermelon smoothie were all delicious. Macaroons were very tasty. The inside is very comfortable and the cashiers are nice, watermelon + green tea was tasty even though I wasn’t a usual fan of green tea.

  • 5/5 Arianne W. 1 year ago on Google
    Writing a review now because I miss this place so much! I used to work here and loved it. The lady who would make the drinks is such a hard worker and worked nearly all day every day, at least while I worked there for almost 2 years. She made the best drinks. Their ingredients are in fact all natural, even down to the coconuts they hand crack in the back. My husband’s favorite was the coconut milk smoothie and mine was the watermelon smoothie with cappuccino cream and boba. And the purple sweet potato smoothie whenever it was in season. It’s going to be hard finding a place that even compares to this place 💔 hope to visit soon.

  • 5/5 Donovan H. 4 years ago on Google
    Shaka Shaka uses real fruit and is very clean. They also offer free WiFi with a purchase of anything from them. The service is amazing and it is almost guaranteed you won’t get your drink after 5 minutes of waiting unless there is a super long line or that there was an accident. It is a great place to study, chill, or hang with your friends. Gotta love the staff 😜

  • 4/5 Blu Phone South K. 2 years ago on Google
    I've been buying drinks from Shaka Shaca from different locations. Their stuff members are normally friendly and fruits smoothies are good. I have nothing to complain about them but got milk tea with boba first time. It was a mistake... Boba was fresh and relatively small than I'm familiar with and good but tea was weak. You can see it weak at a glance. God 25% sweetness but it was very sweet too. Disappointed. It is a place to get fruit drinks. Then they are good. Never tea.

  • 5/5 N. �. 2 years ago on Google
    I remember this business fondly when I lived on island. I have never had a bubble tea that matches the taste or quality of the drinks made at this shop. I moved back to the Mainland about 4 years ago and have tried dozens of shops but have yet to find one that preps their drinks the same as Shaka Shaka, especially their Avocado Boba teas. Truly delightful drinks, a must try if in the area.

  • 1/5 Gia J. 3 years ago on Google
    This is the second time in a week that I've come in at open time and nothing was ready. They told me I had to wait 30 minutes for boba. Absolutely not. I'd been coming here almost daily for the past few months, but they need to fix themselves. I won't be back.

  • 5/5 Myra 4 years ago on Google
    Best place to get boba! They use fresh fruits and their boba is always cooked perfectly. This place is a must, every time I visit Oahu.

  • 3/5 Hi F. 3 years ago on Google
    I ordered the drinks as a delivery a while ago, I had ordered 7 drinks for me and my friends at 2:20. They didn’t start making the drinks until 3:40. And so my friends and I called them and the kind employees said that their manager didn’t tell them to make it yet. We got the drinks at 3:50. Though the wait was long, the drinks were very good. The drinks were 5 stars, but the service was about 3.5. I would highly suggest it again. We did end up ordering it again. I honestly love Shaka Shaka tho

  • 4/5 Jimmy F. 3 years ago on Google
    Conveniently located in the Salt Lake Shopping center. there is a lot of parking but it generally gets full during lunch and dinner. we like their strawberry smoothie plain and with boba. they sell a cairety of random snacks and much of it looks like stuff you would get at Sam's Club or Costco. They also resell local items like packaged snacks. I found the random fruits like bananas and avocados unusual but the face shields was probably more unique. However, I say if the market supports this and it helps them stay afloat that is fine. their drinks are what they are known for and what we will go back there for again.

  • 5/5 Davis K. 2 years ago on Google
    Drink was made fast and delicious!

  • 5/5 Willie P. 2 years ago on Google
    Good fast service. No Thai milk tea but their black milk tea with boba is good.

  • 5/5 Age 3 years ago on Google
    Open doors and not busy with only one person in front of me. Love that they use fresh fruit! I had a large Pineapple Lemon Tea with boba. The boba is the perfect consistency, not mushy at all and lots of small pieces of pineapple.


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Amenities


  • Payments
    • ✓️ Debit cards
    • ✓️ Credit cards
    • ✓️ NFC mobile payments
  • Offerings
    • ✓️ Coffee
    • ✓️ Quick bite
  • Popular for
    • ✓️ Good for working on laptop
  • Accessibility
    • ✓️ Wheelchair accessible seating
    • ✓️ Wheelchair accessible entrance
    • ✗ Wheelchair accessible restroom
    • ✓️ Wheelchair accessible parking lot
  • Dining options
    • ✓️ Dessert
  • Service options
    • ✓️ Dine-in
    • ✓️ Takeout
    • ✓️ Delivery
    • ✓️ No-contact delivery

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