I didn’t know Happy Lemon have already opened at Robinsons Place Manila, until a while ago. According to Happy Lemon’s Facebook, it opened last April 18, 2012. My mom and I usually stops by at Robinsons Place Manila after church with our usual routine: eat, grocery, home. We went to eat at Recipes, and while waiting for our order I excused myself to go to the washroom which was located at the other side of the same floor. Along the way I saw the stall of Happy Lemon, there were only very few people in line so I excitedly told my mom to buy a drink after eating lunch.
Happy Lemon was introduced to me by my boyfriend. I’m not a fan of teas, milk teas, flavorful drinks and the likes, but since my boyfriend told me to try it out, I did. The first branch of Happy Lemon that I visited was at Power Plant mall in Rockwell and I honestly can’t remember what I ordered back then because I didn’t liked it — My boyfriend didn’t liked it too, ha ha. My boyfriend ordered his favorite drink, Cocoa with Rock Salt and Cheese – at first I thought that the mixture of rock salt and cheese was a bit odd, but after taking a sip from his drink, it was surprisingly good; the cream cheese froth is just addicting. And so it became my favorite drink as well.
It has a Korean character and has the letters “Ke” — it could mean “keep” from “keep refrigerated” or something. My mom also caught one and hers was a bit bigger than mine. I don’t know whether the girl in front of me had it as well since we had the same order, but hers came first before mine and left as soon as she got her drink. I was actually hoping to write a positive review about Happy Lemon, but unfortunately this had to happen. Well, accidents happen, but I just want to share my experience.
Heads up to all business owners: Do remind your employees every now and then to make sure that their surroundings are clean at all times, and that all disposable stuffs are taken care of. Sometimes they tend to forget because they’re focused on making the drink as fast as they could. A little reminder won’t hurt.
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Cocoa with Rock Salt and Cheese is a delicious beverage and it’s one of Happy Lemon’s best seller. Who doesn’t love cocoa? It’s one of my favorite drinks! The cream cheese froth that I had was actually very sweet, but the saltiness was just right. There are only a few table and seats available for Happy Lemon’s customers, adding a few more would be better.
Branch visited: 2nd Floor, Midtown Atrium Robinsons Place Manila Pedro Gil cor. Adriatico Sts., Ermita
Other branches: Greenhills Promenade, Power Plant Mall, Eastwood Mall, Trinoma Mall, SM Megamall, Bonifacio High Street
Specialties: Drinks
Budget: P199 & Below
Yuck! Nilunon mo un plastic thing?
Comment by Mary Ng
May 13, 2012 @ 9:58 pm
oo! hahahha! yung una nalunok ko! malay ko ba!
Comment by Mara Anthea
May 13, 2012 @ 10:10 pm
They should have been watching everything and make sure it is safe.
That could have been dangerous in another circumstances.
Buti nalang plastic lang, What if it was a piece of glass?
Comment by Derrick
May 13, 2012 @ 10:23 pm
true.
Accidents happen, but then again, it could have been prevented.
Comment by Mara Anthea
May 13, 2012 @ 10:32 pm
Sana nidemanda mo sila. Tpos bilang pambawi 1 month free happylemon everyday
Comment by Handsome Carl
May 14, 2012 @ 9:34 am
1 month lang? dapat 1 year! xD or 6 months pag may tawad.
Comment by Mara Anthea
May 14, 2012 @ 4:53 pm
Ang dami kong nakikitang new opened stores. Actually I'm so noob na sa mga new.
Hirap talaga pag nasa bundok ka lang at hindi bumababa. Hahaha
OMG ayaw ko ng gnyan ung may nakikita or nasusubo kang hindi naman dapat.
Dapat dun libre na lang ung food. haha!
Comment by Deann
May 14, 2012 @ 5:56 pm
Hala, napakadisappointing naman nyan. Kung ako yun, baka di na ako babalik sa store na yun. Sana nireklamo mo tapos gawa kunwari ng scandalo para natuto, tska marefund pa.
Comment by veron
May 14, 2012 @ 7:53 pm
Eww that's a bummer. But I have to admit the drink looks delicious! <3
Comment by Gail
May 15, 2012 @ 12:18 am
You should've told them about the incident. They could've given you a complimentary drink to compensate for their mistake. On another note, I haven't tried happy lemon yet, but I heard they were good.
Napagiiwanan na ko!
Exchange links?
Comment by Aencille
May 15, 2012 @ 10:30 am
Ugh, yuck that's pretty off. You should have told them about that as soon as you discovered it. You can sue them for that even.
As for me, the only problem I've encountered from Happy Lemon was that when I tried the newly opened Happy Lemon branch at Bonifacio High Street the Cocoa with Rock Salt and Cheese was a bit salty than usual. With your experience, I think I'll just stick getting my Happy Lemon from their first store, the one in Promenade, Greenhills since I think people/staff there are more experienced already than the newly opened ones.
Comment by Pam
May 15, 2012 @ 8:20 pm
mine only had little salty taste. Meh. They don\’t follow their ingredients well, do they? ~ I might try again at Robinson\’s next time since it\’s their only branch that\’s near our place, hopefully, no more stuffs inside my drink X.x
Comment by Mara Anthea
May 15, 2012 @ 8:50 pm
Aww naku kakaopen palang nila, may aberya na. tsk tsk. sana sinabi mo sakanila sis para di na maulit sa susunod. isa pa naman sila sa mga sikat na milk tea shop.
Bakit ba gusto nyo yang rock and salt na yan? nakatikim ako nyan at grabe di maipinta mukha ko haha. Ang nasabi ko lang "Lasang sampaguita" haha
Comment by Mei
May 16, 2012 @ 11:11 am
If they're so clumsy about these things, they could be in big trouble. I've heard about Happy Lemon, and also about the rock salt and cheese drink, and I really wanna try it! I don't know that many places that sell milk teas around me.
But anyway, I hope that it wouldn't happen again. I mean, as much as you like that rock salt drink, I think its gonna be really disappointing that there was something in the drink that you weren't expecting…
Comment by phyllz
May 16, 2012 @ 1:12 pm
ew sampaguita?! LOL adik ka! baka yung nainom mo may bahid ng sampaguita. XD
Comment by Mara Anthea
May 16, 2012 @ 3:02 pm
Di mo kasi binigyan ng tip.
Comment by Justin
May 16, 2012 @ 5:51 pm
enge money pang tip
Comment by Mara Anthea
May 16, 2012 @ 11:05 pm
Hi sis! How are you?! You're back to blogging na pala!
I'm so late.
Parang hindi na nagtanda ang Happy Lemon, I don't know if you heard the cockroach incident in greenhills branch ata. Mas ewww un kasi naubos na ng customer ung milk tea nya ng makita ung cockroach sa bottle.
I love milk teas but hindi ko pa natry sa Happy Lemon, you should try Cha time, sis.
P.S.
Care to link ex sis? Hehe
Comment by Krisel
May 22, 2012 @ 11:52 am