Fruity Cup - MOUNT OMMANEY

Limping out of Happy Feet after a session of acupuncture I was hungry for meat. As I entered the busy Mt Ommaney Food Court I could see a queue of people at Oporto. I'd been hankering for some Portuguese grilled chicken. Disappointed I looked around to see queues at every store except Fruity Cup which is several metres outside the Food Court. Great! I ordered a banh mi thit with chilli. It was oven heated and presented to me within a few minutes. Being pre-made the banh mi thit was good not great. At $7.50 it was expensive compared to Darra or Inala but in this Food Court it was the cheapest meal to be had. I enjoyed the banh mi thit but I was still hungry.

It is a bubble tea parlour in a mall. That is all there is really to explain there. Coming here it was a mere need to bide some time before going in for a doctor's appointment. It was that time that they start to get really busy, so when they say - let's say 3:00, they can well mean at least 4:00 or 4:30. That meant that there was enough time to search about Mt. Omaney to go and find a place to get coffee. Trouble is there, most of what is available tends to be the chains - and that is something the two of us attempt to avoid if possible. It ended up being this bubble tea joint, just a bit away from where I needed to be; the busy workload and schedule at the doctor's meant that several returns within an hour or so were done. Design-wise, there is not that much to this place. It is an island in the middle of the shopping area. You see around it 360 degrees. The colour scheme is bright in parts. Service is what it should be, nothing more and nothing less. At least it is good to make a snack break fast. This is primarily a bubble tea parlour. You have all the milk teas, iced teas, and milkshakes among several other varieties. Each variety has at least a dozen different flavours for selection, and can have a few additions such as pearls added to the drink. In addition to that, they have a range of snack foods in the bain marie and cabinet such as hot foods, and rice paper rolls. In the end, my dining buddy opted for a bubble tea instead of a coffee. The first time around, he managed to spot out - of all flavours - peanut butter in the milk tea range. Son of a gun, because I have a habit of taking a liking to peanut butter and spotting it out; I was beat at my game. And he got it with some pearls. Having a try of it, simply delicious. Look, you are talking to someone who quite likes peanut butter so there is no use in critiquing it since it is just way too bias. The pearls were just the right texture. Of course, as usual it was a Vietnamese iced coffee for me. On the side, I got a few Vietnamese peanut cookies. This coffee had a stronger, more bitter flavour than most other iced coffees I have had. Mixed in, the milk was still really sweet and it made for the same good and refreshing. Maybe not the absolute best, but if it perks me up and is still refreshing then it is well doing its job. The peanut cookies were sweet, small, the right crumbly texture and a tasty treat all up. Coming here for a second round, I went for a bubble tea. Going a bit different for once, it was with mango popping booba and that was a base for mango milk tea. My dining buddy for lychee milk tea, and got it with some pearls. As usual, with milk tea it was quite good with the creamy texture and they certainly were still good with the pearls. I had seen "popping bobba" beforehand and had assumed it would act like Poprocks. Instead, it sort of pops like a bubble in your mouth providing a small amount of juice. The juice used in both teas were tasty - and these are two flavours I am particular to for different reasons; mango is because of how brash it is, and lychee because of how distinct it is as a fruity - not quite sweet, certainly not sour, it is a characteristic if mild taste. To eat with the second lot of bubble tea, I thought to try one of their bahn mis. This variey came with a lot of meat: three different kinds of pork - the usual, classic barbecue pork, a bit of pork loaf and a different sort of salami. This was on a roll with the usual carrot, cucumber, mayonaise and a bit of chili. First off, I was certainly impressed with the amount of meat they gave me in my sandwich; it was practically overlapping and falling out - that is the sign of a good sandwich. However, they might have wanted to get better cuts as some of the meat was a bit old and dry. They seriously needed to spruce it up in flavour as well, offering to put a lot of chili on (partially my fault, as I didn't indicate it - often I do). The creaminess of the mayonaise was good, and it is always fresh and crunchy with the vegetables they use. Overall, far from one of the best bahn mis I have had; though I have yet to have a truly bad one. So there is that. Fruity Cup is not the best Vietnamese (at least as far as bahn mi goes) around, nor would it be the best place to get bubble tea. It is a serviceable place which offers something a bit different to most of the mass-produced options right in the adjoining food court, but that is about it here. This is certainly not a place that I would say to go out of your way to visit.

It is a bubble tea parlour in a mall. That is all there is really to explain there. Coming here it was a mere need to bide some time before going in for a doctor's appointment. It was that time that they start to get really busy, so when they say - let's say 3:00, they can well mean at least 4:00 or 4:30. That meant that there was enough time to search about Mt. Omaney to go and find a place to get coffee. Trouble is there, most of what is available tends to be the chains - and that is something the two of us attempt to avoid if possible. It ended up being this bubble tea joint, just a bit away from where I needed to be; the busy workload and schedule at the doctor's meant that several returns within an hour or so were done. Design-wise, there is not that much to this place. It is an island in the middle of the shopping area. You see around it 360 degrees. The colour scheme is bright in parts. Service is what it should be, nothing more and nothing less. At... read more

A nice place for bubble tea and Vietnamese food! It's nice to have some cultural variety, and at the very least some fresh juice! (Not syrup or

Stood there for 5 minutes while the girl was behind the floating counter in the middleCalled out a couple of times and then gave up.