I’m not entirely sure if this candy is a brilliant success or a terrible failure. The success or failure depends on how you explain the texture of this candy. It’s both easy to give it a positive or negative spin. The texture of this treat is made up of two parts, a slightly hard outer texture and a soft jelly inner texture. We can all agree that the inner texture is a success, I would even argue that the inner texture is one of the most successful textures in chewy candy history. That’s because this texture is obviously supposed to symbolism the soft chewy texture of boba tea. I was so convinced of this texture that I figured they might have just used real boba tea balls.

While the inner chewy texture is spot on, the outer texture is a little more confusing. Since this treat is supposed to represent a drink, a hard texture really doesn’t fit in as well. My argument is that this outer texture is there to represent a different texture (I know it’s a little weird). As liquid is different than chewy boba balls, this hard texture is different than boba balls as well, only on the other end of the spectrum. It’s a bit of a stretch, but I feel like I have to argue it a bit since I kind of enjoyed this hard outer shell.

Flavour wise the milk tea flavour is pretty close to the real thing. I think this is likely because many milk teas that I’ve had at boba shops are made from a powder. These powders may contain real tea, but they also have a lot of very processed ingredients as well. Basically it’s easy to make a candy based on a flavour that’s very often made up of processed flavours.

When I got this bag of My Chew, I thought I was getting some milk tea flavoured taffy. The fact that there’s a real(ish) boba ball in the middle was a very pleasant surprise. The texture was a little weird, but also really nice. My jaw didn’t hurt at all, and the flavour was subtle and also pretty close to the real thing.