Blackball Chinatown

LOVE SWEET TREATS 🍧 Blackball is located just off bourke street. Great lil spot for some chinese desserts. 👌 Service was fast. Food was prepared quick. Open to 12am on friday night which is great. Matcha shaved ice was awsome! Not too sweet or strong and a great size serving which i love. The strawberry waffle was very delicious as well. Just wished it had more strawberries on it 🍓 Fairly well priced for the serving sizes. Great selection of treats. Would recommend and rerurn.

LOVE. THIS. PLACE. As a Taiwanese I can safely recommend this w confidence to other Taiwanese folks visiting from Bris or Syd and after some good legit Taiwanese dessert- look nowhere else, do yourself a favour and get the signature bowl. Please never close. Favourite place in Melbourne alongside Hector’s deli that I tried on this trip- was so good I had to go back daily. If you’re Taiwanese and after some legit, fresh taro/sweet potato or yam QQ balls with grass jelly and shaved grass jelly- THIS IS IT. Forget about meet freshman black ball is so good. Pearls are cooked well, not too chewy but also not over cooked. Usually I hate red bean in dessert places as most places use gross premade canned or packaged stuff but their red bean was good! Not too sweet which is so important. The numerous kinds of QQs in their signature one is great! I loved it w the shaved grass jelly ice option so so yummy just like in taiwan! Just love the signature one here so much, please come open a black ball in Brisbane we desperately need a good Taiwanese dessert shop. Grass jelly milk tea was also yummmm, flavour of the tea was roasted and strong just like how I like it. Cannot fault this place

The presentation of the drink received was very different to the one advertised on the menu. Not only was there barely any mini balls and red bean, but the overwhelming amount of sago was also undercooked. The service was also pretty poor. Drink was definitely not worth $8.50 and will not be coming again.

I was very shocked with the presentation of my mix and match dessert. It’s totally different (nearly unacceptable with this kind of presentation) from the photo menu. However the taste is good and consistently. The store and cutlery are clean. Overall is excellent, taste is good, quality is remained unchanged, sadly only the presentation is very shocked.

Quite disappointed tbh with the whole shop. Looks like a fairly busy time but only one server there managing everything. It was slightly disorganised as our food all came separately but she has collected the beeper in the first instance already. We ordered three things. The first thing came out (black rice and red bean soup) and we had no idea when the second thing would come out so instead of relaxing I had to keep an eye out for it. When the second thing came out (qffles) it was then she informed me that the last thing we ordered, black sesame soup was unavailable. I wasn’t sure why we weren’t told earlier, like when we order. The staff member, to their credit, was super apologetic, but she also doesn’t really know how to refund us and had to contact the manager, which meant we had to be kept waiting. The black rice w red bean was overly sweet and very watery, nothing like a Taiwanese dessert I expected and certainly nothing like the picture.