Yi Mu Ri Yizhong Zunxian

Review

Yi Mu Ri is a tea brand that started on Taichung's Yizhong Street, where its original shop still stands, and reports call it the first shop in Taiwan to put fen guo, a soft starch jelly, into hand-shaken drinks. The brand focuses on Taiwanese flavors, turning traditional snacks like fen guo, mugwort rice cake and double jelly into toppings, and it has launched a buzzworthy new drink almost every year: the Dai Wan milk tea in 2023, a sticky-rice-cake-inspired series in autumn 2024, and in summer 2025 the Gao Zan Ta series with Thai basil in the milk foam. This Zunxian Street shop is near Yizhong Street, easy to reach while exploring the area.

The signature fen guo is cooked by hand, soft and bouncy with a faint old-fashioned sweetness, and soaks up the flavor of the tea. Dai Wan milk tea (about NT$70) uses a bamboo-scented jade milk tea base with mugwort rice cake shaped into pearls, giving an herbal aroma and a chewy, sticky bite; it is the brand's best-known cup. Gao Zan Ta foam oolong green tea (about NT$70) starts salty and then fragrant, finishing with the herbal note of basil, and one article suggests pairing it with fried chicken. The fan-vote winner is buckwheat tea with fen guo (about NT$50), caffeine-free with a clean grain aroma, while lychee oolong (about NT$55) is treated as a hidden favorite.

Online reviews lean positive, with recurring phrases like Taiwanese flavor and memorable toppings. However, most available material is menu roundups or recommendation pieces with a promotional tone, and specific complaints are rare. The basil flavor is unusual and not for everyone; one article suggests that hesitant drinkers ask staff to swap the basil foam for cheese foam, an off-menu option.

Plain teas start around NT$40, milk teas run about NT$50–70, and adding fen guo, mugwort rice cake or double jelly costs about NT$15 each. The osmanthus lemon with fen guo and the brown sugar milk tea with fen guo have fixed sweetness; for other drinks staff usually suggest light or 10% sugar. Our data lists this shop's hours as 11:00 to 22:00, but sources do not mention seating or parking, so check before you go.

It suits anyone exploring Yizhong Street who wants a drink with a distinctly Taiwanese twist. On a first visit, order the Dai Wan milk tea or buckwheat tea with fen guo; to limit caffeine, choose buckwheat fresh milk tea or golden buckwheat milk tea, and if you prefer something light, go for the island black tea or sticky rice tea.