DaBoba SDSU brings a Taiwanese-style boba program to College Area at 5824 Montezuma Rd, Suite 140, San Diego, CA 92115, directly adjacent to the San Diego State University campus. Every tea is hand-shaken to order rather than batch-brewed, and the tapioca pearls are cooked in small batches throughout the day to maintain a soft, chewy texture that hardens in pre-made versions. The Roasted Brown Sugar Pearl Milk Tea is the menu anchor — a caramelized brown sugar syrup swirled into fresh milk with warm tapioca pearls — and the Brown Sugar Series extends into fresh milk, oolong, and jasmine green tea bases. Cheese tea builds layer a salted cream foam over chilled tea, creating a two-texture drink that separates DaBoba from the syrup-heavy boba chains. The Montezuma Road location sits within the South Campus Plaza retail cluster that also includes Woodstock's Pizza SDSU, making it part of the primary food court serving the residence-hall population on the south side of campus. SDSU students account for the core customer base, and the afternoon-to-evening hours align with post-class foot traffic flowing south from campus along College Avenue and Montezuma Road. Fruit teas use real passion fruit, mango, and lychee rather than powdered concentrates, and the yogurt smoothie line blends fresh fruit into a probiotic yogurt base. An iced Vietnamese coffee option crosses the menu into the ca phe sua da tradition, using a dark roast drip over condensed milk — a nod to the broader El Cajon Boulevard Vietnamese coffee corridor a few blocks south. The shop opened in late 2025 as part of DaBoba's U.S. expansion from its Taiwanese headquarters, and this College Area storefront is its San Diego flagship. SDSU event nights and Aztec game days push foot traffic through the Montezuma corridor, and the late-evening closing time catches the post-dinner crowd heading back from Chuy's Taco Shop and the surrounding College Area taco circuit. Japanese Oolong Milk Tea and Thai Milk Tea round out the classic milk tea section, each built on loose-leaf tea steeped in-house rather than poured from a pre-mixed concentrate.