7/01/09 - WTF there's more froyo places than Starbucks + Peets combined. This competes with 7-eleven almost.
If you're wondering what I'm referring to, it's the more tarty/sour yogurt as opposed to the creamy frozen yogurt that's closer to ice cream.
Old:
8 years ago or more it was boba... or pearl milk tea, or whatever you call it. Places like Tapx, Q-Cup, Fantasia, Tea Station, Tea Oasis, and later Quickly started sprouting out. It was the place to go in high school. And if you don't know what I'm talking about, then most likely it's because this was a "too-Asian" thing.
Well, last year it started big with Pinkberry and Red Mango expanding. Pinkberry was around a little earlier but when I first had tart it wasn't a craze or anything. I think the thing really exploded when Yogurtland became popular in Irvine.
Anyway, I'm not from SoCal, so I'll speak about my experience. The last 2 semesters, 2 froyo stores opened in Berkeley, and it became the new Asian place to go to. So I noticed no Asians went to our traditional yogurt places anymore, and they opted for sour yogurt tart.
Forward a couple months, and the revolution explodes in the south bay. I came home one weekend to Cupertino (my hometown populated by 45% Asians), and the new Yogurtland there was crowded with fobs ans ABCs. To my surprise, I saw at least 2 - 3 people wearing our football shirt, and a few other students. Now there's three froyo places in my town and just driving down another heavily Asian populated town (Milpitas) allowed me to discover yet another place which had a fat grand opening sign.
The trend with the froyo places here I've noticed is that it started with single flavors or maybe 2 at most like with Pinkberry. However, when these places sprouted up in the last 3 months around my neighborhood, they're all self serve bars where you pay by the ounce and throw on a bajillion toppings and not to mention they have like 10 different yogurt flavors.
So has anyone been sucked into this? Because it seems like the new place for me and my friends to hang out after work because the boba cafes are honestly just too crowded with damn high school kids.
If you're wondering what I'm referring to, it's the more tarty/sour yogurt as opposed to the creamy frozen yogurt that's closer to ice cream.
Old:
8 years ago or more it was boba... or pearl milk tea, or whatever you call it. Places like Tapx, Q-Cup, Fantasia, Tea Station, Tea Oasis, and later Quickly started sprouting out. It was the place to go in high school. And if you don't know what I'm talking about, then most likely it's because this was a "too-Asian" thing.
Well, last year it started big with Pinkberry and Red Mango expanding. Pinkberry was around a little earlier but when I first had tart it wasn't a craze or anything. I think the thing really exploded when Yogurtland became popular in Irvine.
Anyway, I'm not from SoCal, so I'll speak about my experience. The last 2 semesters, 2 froyo stores opened in Berkeley, and it became the new Asian place to go to. So I noticed no Asians went to our traditional yogurt places anymore, and they opted for sour yogurt tart.
Forward a couple months, and the revolution explodes in the south bay. I came home one weekend to Cupertino (my hometown populated by 45% Asians), and the new Yogurtland there was crowded with fobs ans ABCs. To my surprise, I saw at least 2 - 3 people wearing our football shirt, and a few other students. Now there's three froyo places in my town and just driving down another heavily Asian populated town (Milpitas) allowed me to discover yet another place which had a fat grand opening sign.
The trend with the froyo places here I've noticed is that it started with single flavors or maybe 2 at most like with Pinkberry. However, when these places sprouted up in the last 3 months around my neighborhood, they're all self serve bars where you pay by the ounce and throw on a bajillion toppings and not to mention they have like 10 different yogurt flavors.
So has anyone been sucked into this? Because it seems like the new place for me and my friends to hang out after work because the boba cafes are honestly just too crowded with damn high school kids.