iTEA is a homegrown bubble tea chain that has been pouring milk tea and fruit tea in Singapore’s heartland malls since 2011, and its kiosks are a common sight near MRT stations. With prices friendlier than the Taiwanese giants, it draws plenty of Muslim students and office workers asking the same question. The register answer is at the top of this page; here is the context around it.
What iTEA says
iTEA has not published a halal certification or position for its Singapore outlets. Its official website and menu pages describe the drinks range but carry no halal statement, no ingredient policy, and no mention of how toppings like pearls, jellies and puddings are sourced. You may come across third-party menu sites making claims either way, but none of those claims appear on iTEA’s own website or social channels, so they cannot be treated as the brand’s word. Ingredient questions are best directed to the chain itself, since suppliers and recipes can change without notice.
What this means for you
Without a certificate there is nothing to verify against the register, so drinking iTEA becomes a personal judgement about ingredients rather than a verifiable certification status. If certification is your standard, treat iTEA as unverified rather than as either halal or non-halal, and re-check the register from time to time - drink chains do enter the register when they certify premises.
Certified alternatives
If you want a drink or dessert stop with a certificate you can actually check, start from these register-backed pages:
- Snack bars and bakeries - the register category that covers most certified drink and dessert kiosks.
- Each certified outlet near you, by area - drill into your neighbourhood and filter the listings.
- Mr Bean - a certified local chain whose soy drinks and desserts overlap with the bubble tea craving.
To check any specific outlet, use the register search with the outlet name or the mall’s postal code.