HEYTEA Cloud Jasmine Tea

About the Cloud Jasmine Tea

Cloud Jasmine Tea is $6.99 at 210 calories. Brewed jasmine green tea sits underneath and a salted cream cheese foam cap goes on top, with no milk and no fruit anywhere in the cup. This is cheese tea in its original form, the drink the entire cloud category was built out of before fruit and milk versions took over the board.

The construction is what makes it interesting. A plain tea has no sugar or dairy giving it body, so the cap is the only rich element and it sits in sharp relief against the tea rather than blending into it. Sip it without a straw and salt and cream arrive first, then clear jasmine tea follows behind. That contrast is the entire experience, and it is far more pronounced here than in any milk based cloud drink.

At $6.99 it is one of the cheaper signature drinks here, well below the $9.99 the matcha clouds command. The reason is straightforward: no milk, no fruit, no second base to pay for. If you are curious what a cheese cap actually does, try it here first, because nothing else in the cup will confuse your answer.

The tea has to be good for this to work, and that is the risk you take. In Jasmine Milk Tea the milk covers a lot of ground, and in the fruit builds the pulp does the same. Here the jasmine is exposed. A well made version tastes floral and clean under the salt. A poor one tastes soapy, and the cap makes that worse rather than better.

Order this if you like tea, if the milk based drinks feel heavy to you, or if you want to understand what cheese foam is for. Skip it if you want something sweet or filling, because at 210 calories with no milk underneath it is a light drink by design. Jasmine Milk Tea at $7.99 is the fuller version of the same tea.

Plain Jasmine Tea sits at the bottom of the price range with no cap at all, and it is the cheapest item HEYTEA sells. This drink is the step up from it, and the cap is what you are paying the difference for.