The Alley

The Alley sits on the second floor of Ala Moana Center, the Taiwanese tea brand's Honolulu outpost in a corner storefront near the food court. The program is the global Alley format: tea leaves selected and roasted with attention, sugar cane syrup boiled in-house, and Deerioca tapioca made from scratch and rolled by hand to land the texture they want. Drinks run through brown sugar deerioca, creme brulee milk tea, ube milk tea, matcha lattes, and a fruit tea menu that rotates with availability. The line moves mall-fast. The crowd is shoppers on a break, after-school groups, and the late-afternoon visitors who came to Ala Moana specifically for the drink. Order the brown sugar deerioca milk tea if you want the signature with the in-house syrup and tapioca working together. Order the matcha latte if you want the program's quieter side.