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Do you know what this is in this picture?


It's BUBBLE TEA! Wondrous bubble tea from a faraway land. It's a sort of creamy, milky drink with edible chunks at the bottom that you suck through the straw. It's a fun drink and something I first had... in Canada? Maybe. I know they have it in Portsmouth and I make it a point to stop in every time I'm driving past the town. Y'know, since it was the closest place that actually served bubble tea (aside from Portland, but I never found it there).

Until the sushi bar known as Yoshi's opened up in Brewer. A new sushi bar opened in Brewer over the summer and it took a while to get its legs and really get going. We had intended to go at some point but never really found a reason. Until we found out they served bubble tea. When we saw that they had that on their menu we made plans as soon as we could pick up our car keys (which turned out to be later that week... but for story purposes just go with it). We finally make our way to Yoshi's on the weekend and sit down. We ask for bubble tea and... SHAFTED. "I'm sorry we don't have that available yet," the host said to us. It's on your fucking website you assturd! "Oh, well we haven't got it set up yet," he mumbles back to us. Well, fuck. Mildly disappointed we ordered dinner.

Several months fly past and now it's February. We need to do something for Valentines Day so we figure that bubble tea and sushi would be a nice treat. We head down to Yoshi's again and get a table. We ask the waitress for bubble tea and... NOPE! "I'm sorry, the lady that does that is gone and won't be back for a long time," she says to us with her dopey vacant stare. WELL FUCK FUCK FUCK! Why offer something menu if you aren't ever going to have it readily available. It's on the website and it's not even tucked away, in some hard to find corner. IT'S ON THE MENU BAR ON THE WEBSITE! It prominently features and is strongly advertised on the website. Why does this dump only have ONE person that can run the bubble tea machine? How hard is it to train one of the many members of the wait staff to make it? All they're doing is running miso soup everywhere and looking at you vacantly when you ask for damn bubble tea!

So needless to say I'm extremely disappointed with Yoshi's. The sushi is actually really good, though. Regardless, if you have something on offer you should have it available to order. Don't just serve it at special times and make me have to guess when that person might be working. It's extremely poor service. Still pissed man, still pissed. I want my effing bubble tea. I'll be driving past Portsmouth this weekend, though, so I'll get some satisfaction then.