I got the Fresh Milk with Taro Paste and Brown Sugar Boba, the taro paste was so good. Not on the sweeter side of most boba places but the boba was fresh and chewy. I also got the Mango strawberry shaved ice bowl which had tons of fruit and sweetened milk which was perfect for a hot day

First time here I was completely lost do to the amount of choices you are given. Im glad I was with friends that previously visited this location. I ordered a strawberry smoothie and did not expect how amazing it would taste. Also my friends ordered shaved ice and the dish was HUGE, you will need 3/4 people for this one order.

The dessert was good. Not too sweet. Their dessert was good. I enjoyed the Hot almond drinks with Taro. The place is a bit run down with very limited seatings inside. The outdoor benches is very very limited. It is a great place toPeople watch outside. If you like dessert, it’s a good place to grab some sweets!

Tasty 😋 beautiful almond

I was a fan of Meet Fresh when I was in Taiwan and California. We even detoured to their location in Montreal since we would like to show our support to the brand that originated from Taiwan.We were super disappointed with our recent visit. The environment was disgusting and no staff tried to maintain it; the service was horrible, rude and reluctant.We ordered a shaved ice bowl and the staff told us to wait for about 20 minutes which was kind of bad. After 15 minutes, we asked the staff about our order and it was already ready. We felt appreciated that they had our order prepared earlier until we unpacked the container.The shaved ice was melted completely already so we brought back and requested a new one. The staff was unhappy and told us the ice underneath was fine but actually not. We totally understood that the timing for ice was difficult to control so we suggested the owner should have a better way to communicate with customers to know about their orders.The environment of outdoor dining was really bad. There is a public trash can by the stores and it was piled up at noon. The staff even brought their own trash from the store and stacked it on top of the trash mountain.There are better options for Taiwanese desserts or boba tea in NYC so we definitely won’t visit again.

Overall pretty good, very similar taste to what I had in Taichung. Jellies are done right, but taro jelly didnt taste strong as I was expecting.

Throughly enjoyed this - wide selection with ability to customize. Everything was flavorful and well made. The shaved ice is not as fine (or fluffy) as the ones we have had in Asia but it worked. The staff was extremely helpful with suggestions - patient, friendly and never rushing even though the place was hopping and super busy. There are seating was adequate (downstairs seating was closed) but you do have to clean the tables yourselves (either it was too busy for the staff to do it or it’s self service. Couldn’t tell but not a big deal since most people were very considerate about picking up after themselves). All in all would definitely go back.

Prompt service was given for my order. However, there was a funky smell in the soybean cream given. Other than that it was good for today.

For 10 dollars. Not worth! At least it need to add enough material to serve people. 90 percent ice...

Delicious Taiwanese desserts that aren’t overly sweet or heavy. I like the wide variety of toppings and bases and being able to create my own bowl from the selections. You really can’t go wrong with any of the signature desserts either. It has all of your classic favorites from taro balls to shaved ice.

Inside was not very clean. They did not wipe down the tables once customers left. They technically have a Tuesday promotion where you can get a $1 drink with a purchase of any item but when I asked the cashier he said they dont have that.Food was good but not sure if I will be back again

Visited today because they offered dine-in options that nearby store, The Alley, didnt. The products and employees are good but the environment of the store was really uninviting. Their outdoor seating area is only open on the weekends which is a bummer because i’d be more inclined to sit outside. The inside of the store had no lights on, clutter/crates/paint bins piled everywhere, and no A/C turned on inside. If felt more like a construction zone than a cool place to sit down and enjoy boba/taiwanese desserts. Hopefully these minor fixes can be made.

The most authentic Taiwanese shaved ice dessert in NYC. The taro and sweet potato balls are exactly what I remembered from Taiwan.

Insanely good shaved ice. Not Japanese style with fake flavored syrup. nice brown sugar flavor. almost like a meal. Add whatever you want with so many topping and all excellent.

Enjoyed the herbal tea with jelly and tofu pudding. Friendly staff and helpful.A bit of advise, do not add taro to your tofu pudding. They are served in big chunks. Not tender. What is up with that? I’ve had taro in sweet soups and they are cut up to bite sizes and they are tender. Never again will i add taro to my order.

Absence of a wait, this place is pretty good. This trendy desert shop is from Taiwan. They have hot and cold desserts. The base is generally shaved ice with herbal jelly or tofu pudding base. The toppings that come on top of it range from red bean, mung bean, milk, syrup, taro ball, etc. The drinks are pretty interesting as well. Recommend anything with the small taro ball (it tastes amazing)!

Bad service and they tend to be out of ingredients. No ice cream last I went, in the middle summer, and they served my order using a dish with a giant chip in it. Place could use a cleaning too.

I really liked this little cafe. Great bubble tea place!

$8 for a bowl of sweet soup is a bit over price to me. They were out of bubbles the day we visit. We order cold herb jelly #1, hot almond tea with tofu pudding, and almond pudding with red bean. They almond soup and pudding were smooth and silky. Herb jelly has no herb flavor, which disappoint me. Overall is OK, give it a try if you havent. But to me going back is a 50/50.

Note: Order to eat-in to get a bigger portion. I recommend their popular Meet Fresh Signature option for starters.Meet Fresh is a Taiwan-based dessert chain that is more prevalent in the West Coast. They have made their way to the East Coast and established their first store here.I like Meet Fresh because it provides a healthier alternative to other dessert options in the city, and its just as sweet and delicious. From what I heard, their taro balls were imported from Taiwan, so that explains why their offerings were a bit pricey.

The warm desserts are great for cold winter days.

This was an unplanning visit and the outcome was different I must say.If you havent tried Taiwanese desserts, this place is a good one to start with as it seemed very popular in the neighborhood, packed around the clock.Get your dessert to share as theres no way you can finish it alone.

You have to order $10+ to pay by card. Very sweet I don’t like and won’t come back.

Great Taiwanese desert and drink, but definitely on the pricey side.

I love having Taiwanese/Hong Kong dessert like this because they are refreshing and sort of healthy too. I ordered the jelly shaved ice and the ice melted faster but that’s how it is (more like drinking very cold soup) I highly recommend this place to share with friends because there is a lot of stuff on the bowl! And I could hardly finish it after having dinner.

Authentic taste, not too sweet with texture thats on point. Grass jelly ice is a nice addition. Not worth a line though.

I LOVE this place!!!! Period. This place is very consistent with any other locations. They don’t exist in Florida and I just had to go there twice for my 5 day visit in NYC!

It was super crowded. We ordered take out. The items we got were okay.

5.13.18 - meh.GOOD: nice staff, bright open space, easy tonorder.BAD: Quality of ingredients is no better than your regular boba tea shop. The creations are an excess display of many ingredients in one bowl. The places gets packed right at 1 PM when everyone is done with lunch. Over priced.Its not worth the wait for both price and quality.

Busy little place, that should be cleaned more often. Everything I touched was sticky. Huge, meal size dessert bowls.

Came here couple times, but due to the long line I wasn’t able to get in at all. Finally, I get to tried this place and my overall experience with the dessert is just ok. Maybe when you have the best taro balls dessert in Taiwan, and this just can’t compare to the one in Taiwan. Although this is also a famous franchise from Taiwan but it’s definitely not the best. Since many people never had the good taro balls dessert in Taiwan, they have nothing to compare to and would think this is great. Well, it’s good enough for the area now. Also their management definitely need improvement and make the order goes faster and smoother. Hopefully it will gets better!

Enjoyed our mango shaved ice. Glad they had it as it is seasonal and unavailable in some locations (Los Angeles!). Not as good as in Sydney, Australia though. But at least they had it!

The red bean soup with taro ball is good. Not too sweet.

Best bubble tea in town. Period. Our favorite is Black sugar boba with fresh milk.

Legitimate drink and dessert place. I was pleasantly surprised. Theyre known for their bkack sugar drinks that were sold out. The place was crowded on a weekday night. It has really great desserts. Seating is kind of hard to find.

Love their beverages and desserts! They have the best taro ball I can find in greater NY area. Big portion of desserts

First time here on a late Saturday night. Lucky to get a seat. Ordered the warm version of the Taro Tofu Pudding 芋圓豆花. Big portion enough for two ppl! Tasty will come back again and try other items on the menu

Picking up custom orders to go. Staff is wearing face masks and being extra sanitary but still have pantry moths flying around. Probably good that they’re now doing deliveries.

Best grass jelly place in the world, literally.

Surprisingly, the cold one of better than the hot signature one. Portion is pretty generous, and menu pretty extensive.

Tora ball no.3 is really good! There are a lot of people in line. But you can still get your order quickly. The taste is the same as in China.

Taro/Red bean dessert doesn’t have any red beans but just the red bean flavor in the soup. The balls should be called flour balls. There is no filling inside and it’s made of artificial colors and just flours. There’s no taste to them. It’s not overly sweet but the dessert overall has very little taste. I can’t believe I spent $8 for this.

Yummy. Like nothing Ive ever had.

Large amount of food for a good value. Tastes good and would recommend the shaved ice. Sometimes the wait can be long though

As someone living in the US but misses Taiwan (home) all the time, this was a great addition to the Asian dessert scene in Manhattan. Be warned, it is really expensive compared to the Meet Fresh in Taiwan so I would just avoid comparing prices.I usually get the hot tofu that’s in a sweet soup (豆花), and I get it to go since the store gets pretty crowded. If you order it to go, I would recommend asking them to separate your topping and the tofu so you can add them in later on at home.I’ve never had their other dessert options but they look very similar to what we have in Taiwan. Feedback from my friends who have tried it are that it’s quite good and comparable to the Meet Fresh in Taiwan. So if you miss Taiwanese desserts or want to try some, come here!

Ive waited so long for a legit Taiwanese Dessert place!! By legit, I mean theres been many places that claimed they served Taiwanese desserts such as shaved Ice but it was always ehh. So when a friend told me about this place Meet Fresh I had to come try for nyself. I gotta say, Meet Fresh is on an another level! The desserts here were simply delicious and authentic. Their menu features so many items. The interior is super updated and theres plenty of seating on both floors. The prices here are a bit pricey but hey you get what you pay for right?

I love this place! Very Asian and exotic desserts! If you want to meet young people, this is definitely the right place to go! Parking spaces are also very easy to find!

Taiwanese import that’s is widely popular. The hype is still there but there isn’t lines around the block anymore. It’s usually filled with NYU students and if there’s a line it moves pretty quick. They have a decent amount of seats but I’m surprised how rundown the place has gotten already. The table and seats seem to be rarely cleaned and the last two times I was there, it reeked of urine. I recommend finding a seat to the left as you enter to be as far away from the restroom as possible or take out and eat at the square across the street if weather allows. The desserts are some of the best. The Meet Fresh signature cold dessert is my go to but I also love the Taro ball 6 too. Definitely worth trying, I just wish they would hire a dedicated cleaning staff to keep the place from becoming a subway station.

I miss puddings like this that are plentiful in Asia - this definitely hit the spot! Our favourite was the grass jelly and shaved ice but would gladly eat any of them at any given time! Will be back to try the hot ones. Yum! 😋

Meh. Not worth the 30 min wait outside on a cold night. The iced special (added sesame balls and sweet potato) was fine and filled my craving for Taiwanese shaved ice and taro balls, but I doubt I’ll be thinking about this place in the future.

Best shaved ice I had for years! You can see how big the shaved ice because I put my hand next to it! Friendly staff and good food!

Not as good as in China. The ingredients are just on top of a gigantic shaved ice... and the sauce is half and half in a little paper cup? Not even a fresh one?So disappointed...

Best authentic Tawanese deserts!! Everything on the menu is great! We come back here multiple times a year! Highly recommended!

For an asian person [me]this is just meh, not big of a deal. This place was one of many places in my list of food adventure. Ive heard good comments from this place, and you know that if a place has a long line, then it means is popular and delicious. Well, it looks like it did not meet my standards. I have tried desserts way better than this place. If it is your first time trying asian desserts, you may like it, but for me, it is a whatever

This is my third time here and I can’t help noticed the stains on the edge of the bowl. HOW DARE YOU TO SERVED YOUR CUSTOMERS FOOD WITH A STAINED CONTAINER??? It feels disgusting!Improve it! Please!

Long wait for both food and table. Had red bean soup (no. 4 on the menu, with boba, taro balls and taro) and tofu pudding with kidney beans. Neither was impressive, but the quantity was so big that we felt stuffed afterwards.

As to a Taiwanese, this brought back a lot of good memories, and this is the only few place that have taro ball and sweet potato ball. Very happy that they finally open in NYC.

Ordered tofu pudding but didnt get no syrup, had to eat it plain, very disappointing 7 dollars spent.

Delicious, not too sweet.

Very recommended purple rice porridge, extra plus a spoon of condensed milk is very delicious. Purple rice porridge is not very sweet, so it will not become fat. Today is Tuesday, not many people line up, just a few minutes to get my order. I will come again next time, for this purple rice porridge.

Great dessert after a meal. It was very refreshing.

Small space, a little chaotic and takes a while to get your order. But it was tasty and refreshing. Prices kinda high.

I’m offended by the staff who worked here on my visit. They refused to let us enter the space downstairs even this level was all crowded simply because they didn’t want to clean the room afterwards. The food is overpriced and they only take cash for purchases less than $10. The staff wear only one glove when preparing the food and has no understanding of “good attitude”.

The service was quick (~noon-ish on a Saturday), and the dessert portions are about 1.3 to 1.5 times the size of what they serve in Taiwan (recollected by my faint memory of the last time I had Meet Fresh 8+ years ago). Taro Ball dishes are a bit too sweet. The purple rice milk tea was surprisingly good though!

Having had hundreds of servings of the real deal in Taiwan, I can say this is the best you can get in NYC as of 3/2019. The grass jelly, egg pudding, and mini taro balls (they were sold out of the regular size at 8pm on a cold Sunday) are pretty on point but the ice texture wasn’t right. It was a little too chunky, kind of like crushed ice from a fridge. One bowl was shared between myself and a friend ($8).Additionally, this place was packed despite the still freezing temperatures. The line wraps past the bathrooms, cuts off the stairs heading down to additional seating, and in front of the tray return spot. Did not make for a very leisurely eating experience.

I got the grass jelly shaved ice with grass jelly, taro balls, and sweet potato balls. The shaved ice is made with grass jelly juice and really good. The grads jelly is also good. The taro and sweet potato balls are really bad though, too much flour and not enough real sweet potato and taro.The dessert is also pretty pricy at $8.20.

Great chain for chinese desserts.- portions are big enough that you can share an item with a friend or two- seating fills up quickly (you order and sit)- there is a downstairs sitting area but its closed off sometimes

Been here a few times, desserts never disappoint!

Good place for a cold winter time and you might need to queue and wait to get one. Not friendly for hurrying.

Pretty good but a lil pricey

Such a good place for taiwanese desserts! Remember there is downstairs seating but its pretty dreary.Its all about there desserts here. You cant go wrong tbh.

Went on a weekday afternoon， there is no wait in line， but the food is slow and small seating space.food is good and satisfing.

Open late! A place to go for Chinese desserts.

My personal favorite dessert place. The herbal jelly has alot more flavor than competitors.

Update: the owner replied with excuse with online order system delay, BUT I ordered in person, NOT online. Plus, the main point of my complain is the staff attitudes, not because of delay. This wasn’t the first time I felt disappointed with the service. They really need to train the staff. If not because my husband and kids like the food, I definitely wouldn’t go back since my first time purchase. Last night, I yelled at my hubby and told him No more going to this horrible store. I am so done with meet fresh.——————————————————————————The service is horrible, people are rude there. My order should be ready in 15 minutes, but i finally got my order after 35 mins wait. People ordered after me got their orders before me, not just one or two people, it was all of them. I asked the staff was my order ready, why people ordered after me get their order first. She replied it was NOT by order number in a rude and impatient tone. Oh well, so you did it by random, not first come first serve??? All of them got it in 10-15 mins. Oh I know why, you misplace my order, and didn’t even check after I asked u. I finally got my order because I was the last one still standing and waiting.

The shave ice is very good.So far, its the best place at NYC for now.

Always amazing. I come here for the different types of taro you can get. Legit Taiwanese shaved ice, transplanted straight from the motherland.

Same quality as the Chicago one but the store is smaller here.

Literally one of my all time favorite dessert spots. I can say I love the texture of the taro balls and the mix with shaved ice winner! Been coming here for the past year or so and I am still in love with it every time. Only con is that they run out of the big taro balls very early on due to popularity.Should definitely try this place out if youre around St Marks! Absolutely gives you a taste of Taiwan

Cozy joint serving bubble tea and desserts. The hot almond soup was delicious and perfect for a cold day.

Perfect Chinese food.

Best Taiwanese dessert in NYC

The grass jelly shaved ice (topped with lychee jelly) is excellent

Love the Taiwanese desserts

I ordered hot meet fresh signature but they give me the cold one. I asked them to change it for me, but they just used the microwave to heat it. Th herb was melted!!! It’s crazy!!!

Love it!

I watched a Taiwanese TV show - 看板人物 introducing Meet Fresh overseas a couple of months ago. I have been waiting to have a chance visiting Meet Fresh in New York City. I was excited to be there yesterday. - the day after Thanksgiving.There was a long ordering line. We waited about 10 minutes to order two Hot dishes- 燒仙草and 熱豆花。It took the kitchen about 30 minutes to prepare and cook. However, when we finally got them, the food was not Hot at all, but just a little bit warm. It’s disappointed for such long waiting time to have this kind of quality of food.Meet Fresh supposed to be a famous and popular store in Taiwan and overseas. I wish the Comoany continuously to watch their food quality and customer service, in order to have more business and reputation in the future.

Thanks to covid, we cannot have dine in. But the Q mochi ice cream was ok. The taro ball was amazing.

Not the best service, dessert was okay

So delicious. One of my favorite dessert spots.

Service is horrible. They are so slow at preparing the food. The guy in the kitchen was just standing there drinking his tea with a bunch of orders in front of him. Taking his sweet time.

I may give 4/5 if the waiting time is 10 mins. But I am waiting for this for 3 hours. Not worth the timing!

Will 100% satisfy your asian dessert cravings. They have a variety of different options, cold and hot

Typical Taiwanese desert. This place is a chain store from Taiwan. The desserts were average. Staff were friendly but couldnt speak proper english.

Probably the best shaved ice Ive had so far... Every few days I want to go back. Huge servers and they have a hot sweet bean option I want to try.

Delicious Taiwanese sweets!

Have been my fav for 3 yrs and finally, meet fresh NY!

Taste exactly like the original store in Taiwan

I love Meet Fresh! Get the signature bowl. Some of the best dessert Ive ever had. Especially good for a chain place. Another thing I really like is getting Herbal Fresh Milk Tea with Grass Jerry and small taro balls. Its delicious, try it! Skip the Q Mochi, its too sweet.

So good.