What Machi Machi is known for
Machi Machi, Taiwan's cheese-foam bubble tea brand, pours matcha lattes and fruit teas from rue Chabanais and its Printemps Haussmann counter in Paris.
Machi Machi is the Taiwanese bubble tea chain built around Cream Cheese Foam tea — a savory-sweet layer of whipped cheese cream poured over black, oolong or jasmine tea — a format the brand is widely credited with popularizing and that has made it a fixture of Asia's tea scene, with a following that reportedly includes Taiwanese singer Jay Chou. The brand runs two Paris locations: its main shop at 5 rue Chabanais near Pyramides in the 2nd arrondissement, and a counter inside Printemps Haussmann, the Boulevard Haussmann department store's food hall in the 9th. The Printemps menu leans into the house repertoire — oolong tea finished with cream foam, iced jasmine green tea, matcha lattes, and seasonal fruit-and-jelly creations — alongside the classic bubble tea format of tapioca pearls in milk tea. Machi Machi positions itself, in its own words, around taste, comfort and craft rather than novelty alone, and keeps an active French Instagram account documenting new drops under the Machi Machi Paris name. For visitors browsing Printemps' food hall, it is the department store's answer to Taipei's tea-shop culture: a quick, photogenic stop for a cheese-foam tea rather than a sit-down tea room.
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Best for — Taiwanese cheese-foam bubble tea and gourmet teas
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