HEYTEA Cloud Longjing Milk Tea
Dragon well tea, milk, and a salted cheese cap. The least sweet milk tea on the board, and the one I keep recommending to people who tell me they do not like bubble tea.
- Milk Tea Collection
- Contains dairy
About the Cloud Longjing Milk Tea
The Cloud Longjing Milk Tea sells for $9.49 at 250 calories. Longjing, written as dragon well in English, is a pan fired Chinese green tea, and that firing gives it a toasted, nutty character a steamed green tea like matcha does not have. The roast is the whole reason this drink works with milk.
Most green teas turn thin and grassy the moment milk goes near them. Longjing does not. Pan firing leaves a chestnut and toasted rice note that sits comfortably under dairy, and what you get reads closer to a light roasted oolong than to anything you would call a green tea milk drink. It is the most grown up option in the milk tea section and the least likely to taste like a dessert.
The cap on top is salted cream cheese foam. Sip through it and you get salt first, then the milk tea underneath, and that salt pulls the roasted note forward rather than covering it. This is a genuinely different experience from stirring the foam in, and the cup is designed to be drunk without a straw for the first few mouthfuls. Most people stir it anyway, which is fine, but try it the intended way once.
The plain Longjing Milk Tea is the same tea and milk without the cap, at $7.99 against $9.49 here. That gap is smaller than what a cheese cloud topping costs on its own, so if you want the cap, ordering this drink outright is the cheaper route. If you do not want it, the plain version saves you money and drops the count to 240.
Order this when you want a milk tea that tastes of tea. It suits an afternoon better than a morning and it holds up against food in a way the fruit teas do not. Skip it if you are after something sweet and obvious, because at standard sugar this still reads dry next to the brown sugar builds. If it feels too austere to you, Jasmine Milk Tea is softer and floral, and Supreme Brown Sugar Bobo Milk Tea sits at the dessert end.
HEYTEA pours this hot as well, and heat brings the roast much further forward. That is what pan fired tea does. At $9.99 the warm version costs slightly more than the iced cup here, which is the opposite of how the matcha builds are priced.
Cloud Longjing Milk Tea sizes and prices
The Cloud Longjing Milk Tea comes in one cup size only, at $9.49 for 250 calories, so there is no upgrade to weigh up. That price makes it the 2nd dearest of the 7 drinks in the Milk Tea Collection section.
| Size | Price | Calories | Cal per dollar |
|---|---|---|---|
| Regular cup | $9.49 | 250 | 26 |
Listed US menu price before tax. The Cloud Longjing Milk Tea is one of 7 drinks in the Milk Tea Collection section and city to city variation applies to all of them, cross checked across public US menu listings on 19 August 2026.
Best toppings for the Cloud Longjing Milk Tea
The Cloud Longjing Milk Tea starts at $9.49 and every topping is charged on top of that. Sago is the cheapest of the three at $0.98, and all three together would take the Cloud Longjing Milk Tea to $13.03 and 490 calories.
| Topping | Add on | Cal | Cup total | Why it works here |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brown Sugar Bobo | +$1.58 | +100 | $11.07 350 cal | Brown sugar against a roasted tea is a natural pairing, and the pearls give the cup the weight it otherwise lacks at the bottom. |
| Sago | +$0.98 | +80 | $10.47 330 cal | A lighter chew than tapioca bobo, and it adds only 80 calories to a drink already sitting at 250. |
| Matcha Jelly | +$0.98 | +60 | $10.47 310 cal | Adds texture for {PRICE:matcha-jelly} without adding sweetness, which suits a drink built to stay dry. |
These three suit the Cloud Longjing Milk Tea in particular, and the remaining 4 options sit in the full toppings table with what each one does to a mid board cup.
How to make a Cloud Longjing Milk Tea at home
Your cost at home is almost entirely in the tea, and dragon well is worth buying properly because a cheap one tastes of hay. The cap takes about two minutes and it is what makes this recognisable rather than just another milk tea. Shop price for comparison is $9.49.
Ingredients
Longjing tea base
Milk
Cheese cloud cap
To serve
Method
All steps done. Your Cloud Longjing Milk Tea is ready to pour.
Tips that actually change the result
- Water temperature is the one thing to get right. Water at a full boil strips dragon well of its sweetness and leaves only bitterness behind.
- Get the tea properly cold before the milk goes near it. Warm tea and cold milk gives you a cloudy, slightly separated drink.
- The salt in the cap is the point of the cap. Leave it out and you have whipped cream on a milk tea.
Ways to change it
- Leave the cap off entirely for the plain Longjing Milk Tea build, which is what the shop sells for less.
- Serve it hot by skipping the ice and warming the milk gently to about 150F before combining.
- Swap the Longjing for a lightly roasted oolong if dragon well is hard to find locally.
How the Cloud Longjing Milk Tea compares
Three milk teas at three price points. The leaf underneath and the presence of a cap explain the whole gap, and I think the leaf matters more than people expect.
| Drink | Price | Calories | Base | Dairy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cloud Longjing Milk Tea (this drink) | $9.49 | 250 | Longjing green tea | Yes |
| Longjing Milk Tea | $7.99 | 240 | Longjing green tea | Yes |
| Jasmine Milk Tea | $7.99 | 220 | Jasmine green tea | Yes |
| Black Milk Tea | $7.99 | 230 | Black tea | Yes |
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Red Blossom Milk Tea
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Cloud Longjing Milk Tea questions
What is Longjing tea?
Longjing, also written as dragon well, is a pan fired green tea from China. The firing gives it a toasted, nutty flavour rather than the grassy character of steamed green teas, and that is what lets it stand up to milk in this drink.
How much is the HEYTEA Cloud Longjing Milk Tea?
It is $9.49 for the regular cup. The plain Longjing Milk Tea without the cheese cloud cap is $7.99, so the cap is included for less than it costs as a separate topping.
How many calories are in a Cloud Longjing Milk Tea?
A regular cup lists 250 calories. The plain version without the cheese cloud cap brings that down to 240.
Should you stir the cheese cloud in or drink through it?
The drink is built to be sipped through the cap without a straw for the first few mouthfuls, so the salt reaches you before the tea. Stir it in and you get a creamier, more uniform cup, and neither way is wrong.
Is this drink very sweet?
It is the least sweet milk tea on the board at standard sugar level. The roasted tea and the salted cap both work against sweetness. Anyone wanting a dessert style cup should look at Supreme Brown Sugar Bobo Milk Tea instead.
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