The occasion formally started on July 19, and my brother occurred to be within the space, so we paid a go to that night. I wasn’t anticipating an excessive amount of of a crowd since, nicely, what number of passionate anime gacha sport lovers might there be in my little metropolis?

Seems, fairly a number of. The place was vibrant and bustling. A sports activities automobile wrapped in anime lady vinyl sat proudly outdoors. The shop itself was filled with boba enjoyers posing with cardboard stands and posters of Kafka and Blade, the 2 new characters in Honkai: Star Rail. Two baristas labored frantically behind the counter as a path of paper tickets spewed forth from a printer.

After ready in line to order, we made it to the kiosk. There are two themed drinks as a part of the collab occasion: Kafka’s Blushing Blueberry Splendor and Blade’s Karmic Chocolate Matcha. They’re fairly costly at $6.75 earlier than taxes — ”Star Rail theft,” my brother referred to as it. I ordered one in all every, for evaluate functions after all. It took nearly an hour from arriving on the retailer to receiving our drinks.

Purchase tea, get goodies

The first motive Star Rail followers may need to attend this occasion is due to the extra objects you get with every drink. Shopping for two or extra of the collaboration drinks will get you:

• Two playing cards with a picture of Kafka or Blade that include codes for in-game objects
• Two sq. cardstock coasters with chibi photos of Kafka or Blade
• Two themed cardboard drink holders
• A number of stickers that includes chibis of assorted Star Rail characters (quantity can fluctuate)

The Blushing Blueberry Splendor is a blueberry smoothie with some cheese foam and jasmine tea jelly. It’s fairly candy (I like to recommend 50% sugar) with a powerful blueberry taste. The jasmine tea jelly has a satisfying consistency, however I wasn’t positive if I preferred having it in a drink. It was very thick and chunky, being a smoothie with bits of blueberries and jelly. Consuming the entire thing felt like I had eaten a full meal. Nonetheless, I believed it was tasty and value making an attempt.

The Karmic Chocolate Matcha is principally fancy chocolate milk with some matcha in it. I’m not sometimes a fan of matcha, however the slight bitterness of the chocolate and matcha collectively was fairly good. It was creamy, clean, and candy, however not too candy. I most popular the chocolate matcha over Kafka’s blueberry smoothie.

A lot of my pals are avid Honkai: Star Rail followers however didn’t have a Sunright Tea Studio location close to them, so I ended up making a number of journeys to seize some goodies for them. The crowds have fortunately decreased, so that you in all probability gained’t have to attend so long as I did on the primary day. The collaboration occasion lasts till August 31, so there’s nonetheless a while for Trailblazers to attempt these drinks and get some souvenirs!

Christine Choi

Freelancer – Christine has been gaming since she first stole her brother’s Recreation Boy as a child. She’s come a good distance since then and has been creating content material for Genshin Influence since 2021.

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