Best LiHO Drinks | 12 Must Try LiHO TEA Drinks Ranked (2026)

A LiHO menu board can hold more than forty drinks, and nobody has the queue patience for that kind of decision. So here is the short version: the twelve drinks that earn their money, ranked. Every drink below is judged on the same things: how it tastes from first sip to last, whether the price is fair for the cup, and whether you will think about ordering it again tomorrow. Each one comes with the sugar and ice setting that suits it best, because the right drink at the wrong sugar level is only half a good drink.

How this ranking works?

Taste comes first, but not alone. A drink climbs this list when it tastes distinctly like itself (not like every other cup on the board), when its price feels fair for what is in it, and when people reorder it without thinking. A drink falls when it needs heavy customisation to taste good, or when a cheaper cup nearby does its job better. Limited drinks can enter the list, but they are marked, because a recommendation you cannot order next month is only half a recommendation.

1. Cheese Guan Yin, S$4.10

First sip: cool, fragrant Guan Yin tea slipping under a thick cap of cheese foam, the foam slightly salty, the tea clean and floral.
Body: the two layers slowly marry in the cup, creamy on top, refreshing underneath, neither one winning.
Finish: a gentle roasted note and a savoury creaminess that makes you go back for another sip.

Order it: 30 percent sugar, less ice. Let the foam do the sweet talking.
Suits: anyone who has never tried cheese tea, and everyone who already loves it.
Skip it if: you dislike savoury notes in sweet places. The gentle salt in the foam is the whole point.

This is the drink that built LiHO’s name, and at S$4.10 it is also one of the cheapest signature drinks on the board. Famous and fairly priced is a rare combination. It takes first place and it is not close.

2. Kaya Toast Milk Green Tea, S$6.50

First sip: kaya, straight away. Coconut, pandan and caramel, like the spread itself, before the green tea even arrives.
Body: the milk green tea settles underneath the kaya sweetness and keeps the cup from turning into pure dessert.
Finish: warm pandan and toast notes, the taste of a kopitiam breakfast in the middle of the afternoon.

Order it: 30 percent sugar, normal ice. It is born sweet.
Suits: local flavour hunters, tourists who want a Singapore taste, anyone bored of standard milk tea.
Skip it if: you want your tea to taste mainly of tea. This cup is a tribute act, and the kaya is the star.

The brand calls this its number one signature, and for once the claim holds up. Nothing else on any bubble tea menu in Singapore tastes like breakfast at the coffeeshop quite like this.

3. CheezHO Avocado, S$6.30

First sip: thick, cold avocado, almost a smoothie, rich before it is sweet.
Body: the cheese foam adds a savoury cream layer over the avocado’s natural butteriness, and the cup starts eating like a light meal.
Finish: clean avocado and a soft salted cream farewell.

Order it: 30 percent sugar, normal ice (it is blended thick, less ice makes it heavy).
Suits: avocado lovers, anyone replacing lunch with a drink, dessert people who want a cleaner conscience.
Skip it if: you want something light and thirst quenching. This is a rich cup and it knows it.

4. Classic Milk Tea, S$4.80

First sip: smooth milk and honest black tea, perfectly balanced, nothing showing off.
Body: creamy all the way down, the tea holding its ground against the milk from start to finish.
Finish: a soft, familiar sweetness that tastes like every good bubble tea memory you have.

Order it: 50 percent sugar and add pearls (S$0.70) for the full classic build, normal ice.
Suits: first timers, traditionalists, anyone ordering for a group where nobody can agree.
Skip it if: you came for adventure. This cup’s job is to be reliably, boringly excellent.

Every chain has this drink. Few do it this steadily at this price. It will never top a list like this, and it will never leave one either.

5. Da Hong Pao Milk Tea, S$5.30

First sip: roast first, milk second. A deep, toasty oolong character that announces itself immediately.
Body: the milk rounds the edges without dulling the roast, and the cup stays interesting to the bottom.
Finish: warm, woody and satisfying, like the end of a good pot of tea.

Order it: 30 percent sugar, less ice. Sugar above 50 percent buries everything this drink is about.
Suits: real tea drinkers, people who find classic milk tea a little bland.
Skip it if: you prefer light, floral teas. This one is deliberately deep and dark.

6. Singapore Fruit Tea, S$4.90

First sip: bright tropical fruit, cold and lively, with tea humming underneath.
Body: juicy and refreshing rather than creamy, the kind of cup that disappears fast on a hot day.
Finish: clean fruit sweetness, no heaviness, no coating on the tongue.

Order it: 30 percent sugar, less ice, so the fruit survives to the final sip.
Suits: hot afternoons, post lunch walks, anyone who finds milk tea too filling.
Skip it if: you want a creamy treat. This is refreshment, not dessert.

7. Brown Sugar Pearl Avocado, S$5.30

First sip: warm brown sugar and chewy pearls meeting cold, creamy avocado.
Body: the contrast is the drink: hot syrup pearls at the bottom, cool avocado above, sweetness rising as you drink down.
Finish: caramel and avocado in equal measure, rich and moreish.

Order it: 0 percent added sugar, always. The brown sugar syrup has done that job already. Normal ice.
Suits: brown sugar fans who want an upgrade, texture lovers, dessert drinkers.
Skip it if: you count sugar carefully. Even at 0 percent added, this is a sweet cup by design.

8. Fresh Milk Guan Yin, S$5.60

First sip: floral Guan Yin, clearer than you expect, with fresh milk arriving softly behind it.
Body: lighter than any classic milk tea on this list, the tea staying in front the whole way.
Finish: clean dairy sweetness and flowers. Simple and lovely.

Order it: 30 percent sugar, less ice.
Suits: anyone who finds regular milk tea too heavy, floral tea lovers, second cup of the day drinkers.
Skip it if: you want maximum creaminess. This cup trades richness for clarity, on purpose.

9. Oat Milk Da Hong Pao, S$5.90

First sip: roasted oolong wrapped in a soft, cereal like creaminess.
Body: the oat milk adds body without heaviness, and its gentle sweetness flatters the roast.
Finish: toasty and smooth, with the oat lingering pleasantly.

Order it: 30 percent sugar, less ice.
Suits: dairy free drinkers who refuse to miss out, roasted tea fans, the oat latte crowd crossing over.
Skip it if: you dislike the taste of oat milk itself. It is present, not hidden, and that is the charm.

10. Da Hong Pao Yuan Yang, S$4.30

First sip: coffee lands first, bold and familiar, then the roasted tea rises underneath it.
Body: the two strong flavours take turns rather than fighting, tea softening the coffee, coffee waking up the tea.
Finish: a warm, roasted blend that tastes like a kopitiam and a tea house shook hands.

Order it: 30 percent sugar, less ice.
Suits: coffee drinkers at a tea shop, yuan yang loyalists, the afternoon slump.
Skip it if: caffeine hits you hard. This cup carries both tea and coffee, and it does not whisper.

At S$4.30 it is the best value interesting drink on the menu. Nothing else at this price tastes like a decision.

11. Royal Milk Guan Yin, S$3.50

First sip: gentle floral oolong with a light milk softness, easy from the first mouthful.
Body: mild, smooth and undemanding, a milk tea you can drink daily without it becoming an event.
Finish: soft and clean, the kind of finish that makes this a habit drink.

Order it: 50 percent sugar the first time (it is a mild cup), normal ice.
Suits: daily drinkers, smaller budgets, anyone who wants milk tea without the richness.
Skip it if: you want bold flavour. This is the quiet achiever of the menu, not the loud one.

Three dollars and fifty cents for a proper milk tea is close to kopitiam pricing with bubble tea polish. On value alone it earns its place.

12. Lychee Rose Milk Green Tea, S$4.90 (Limited)

First sip: rose perfume and lychee sweetness arriving together, soft and unmistakably floral.
Body: the milk green tea keeps the flowers grounded, so the cup stays drinkable instead of turning into potpourri.
Finish: gentle lychee, a trace of rose, pretty to the end.

Order it: 30 percent sugar, normal ice. While stocks last.
Suits: collectors chasing the Disney Princess cups and sleeves, floral flavour fans, gift buyers who drink their gifts.
Skip it if: floral flavours are not your thing, or you are reading this after the series ends. Limited means limited.

Best LiHO Drink by Category

If You Only Try One

Make it the Cheese Guan Yin at 30 percent sugar. It is the drink LiHO is famous for, it shows off the tea and the foam the brand built its name on, and at S$4.10 it costs less than the fancy coffee you bought this morning. If cheese tea sounds strange to you, that is exactly why it should be first: one cup explains the whole brand.

Then come back for the Kaya Toast. Some drinks you drink, that one you remember.

Honourable mentions

The Golden Avocado has a loyal following and on another day it swaps places with its CheezHO sibling at number 3; the foam version simply does more in the cup. The Cheese Jing Syuan and CheezHO Oolong stand right behind the Cheese Guan Yin, separated by personal taste in tea rather than quality. And the humble pure teas, Jasmine Green and Oolong at S$2.80, are the best cheap drinks in the building. They miss this list only because this list is about LiHO at its most distinctive, and a pure tea’s job is to be pure.