Most Molly Tea drinkers in New York started here. The Prince Street store on the edge of Downtown Flushing was the first Molly Tea anywhere in the United States, opening in 2024, and four years in it still draws lines that wrap past the entrance on weekend afternoons. If you are deciding whether to make the trip, the most useful thing to know upfront is when the wait actually gets bad — and which drinks are worth the wait.
The queue is real, and timing it matters
Yelp pulls 345 reviews and 661 photos for this store as of May 2026, with consistent mentions of long lines in both. Uber Eats shows over 1,000 delivery ratings at a 4.8-star average. Walk-ins on Friday and Saturday evenings, when the store stays open until midnight, can run twenty to thirty minutes from front-of-line to receiving your drink. The kiosk-only ordering speeds the front of the queue but the bottleneck is at the pickup counter, where multiple delivery orders compete with walk-in tickets.
If you want to skip the wait without giving up the in-store experience, three windows work:
Weekday mornings before 12:30 PM are the quietest hours of the week. The store opens at 11 AM Monday through Thursday and the first ninety minutes usually move fast.
Mid-afternoon weekday slots between 2:30 and 4:30 PM are the next-cleanest window. Lunch is over, the school-out rush hasn’t started.
Late-night Friday and Saturday after 10:30 PM thin out as the dinner crowd clears. The store closes at midnight on those nights, so the last ninety minutes are often more relaxed than the dinner peak.
The hardest hours are Saturday and Sunday afternoons between 1 PM and 7 PM, and weekday evenings from 6 PM to 9 PM. If you are coming from outside Queens, plan around those windows or order pickup through Chowbus on your phone before you arrive.
Address, hours, and how to get there
Molly Tea Flushing 37-11 Prince Street, Flushing, NY 11354 (917) 702-3085
The store sits on Prince Street between 37th Avenue and 38th Avenue, a short walk from the 7 train terminus at Main Street–Flushing. From the subway exit at Main Street and Roosevelt Avenue, head north on Main, turn east on 37th, and Prince Street is two blocks. The whole walk runs about five minutes. Q44, Q20, and Q34 buses stop within a block. Street parking in Flushing fills fast on weekends and the surrounding lots run $3 to $7 per hour depending on the structure.
Hours per Yelp and Chowbus, both verified today:
Monday through Thursday — 11:00 AM to 10:00 PM Friday and Saturday — 11:00 AM to 12:00 AM Sunday — 11:00 AM to 11:00 PM
The Chowbus pickup window closes fifteen minutes before the storefront, so the last accepted online order on weekdays cuts off at 9:45 PM.
What people actually order at this store
The Flushing Uber Eats listing publishes its own popularity ranking, which gives a cleaner read on real demand than guessing from social posts. The top three orders as of the latest pull:
Premium Jasmine Milk Tea (茉莉奶白) — $7.99. The signature build. Sits at #1 most-liked on the Uber Eats page with a 100% positive rating. If you want to taste what Molly Tea is supposed to taste like, this is the cup that decides whether you come back.
Snowy Jasmine (一朵茉莉花) — $8.99. Same jasmine milk tea base with the brand’s whipped cream layer and crushed pecans on top. Holds the #2 most-liked slot. The dollar upcharge is fair if you are ordering once and want the photo; if you are coming back regularly, the plain version is the better value.
Premium Jasmine Apple Milk Tea (针王苹果) — $7.99. Cold-press apple juice carried through the jasmine green tea base. Sits at #3 on the popularity ranking and has the highest review-volume satisfaction rate on the list (100% across eight ratings). Lighter than the milk-only drinks. Drink it soon after pickup — apple juice and milk separate if it sits.
Other prices verified directly from the Flushing Uber Eats menu today:
Dancong Oolong Milk Tea (单丛) — $7.99 Gardenia Milk Tea (栀子奶白) — $7.59 Gardenia Oolong Milk Tea (栀子金萱) — $7.79 Snowy Gardenia (一朵栀子花) — $8.79 Snowy Dancong (一口单丛) — $8.99 Premium Jasmine Matcha (抹茶针王) — $7.99 Matcha Jasmine Salted Cheese (抹茶茉莉咸酪乳) — $8.49 Pistachio Jasmine Coconut (开心果茉莉椰) — $8.99 Pistachio White Champaca Coconut (开心果小兰花) — $8.99 Premium Jasmine Tea (茉莉针王, no milk) — $5.59 Gardenia Tea (栀香绿茶, no milk) — $5.59
Toppings — pecans, white boba pearls, and sago — each add $1.49. Source: Uber Eats Molly Tea Flushing listing pulled in this session.
For the full menu category breakdown across the rest of the lineup (Snowy whipped, oat milk, full matcha range, comparisons), the main menu page carries the complete reference.
The Flushing-specific take on what to order
The store sits in the densest Asian-American shopping corridor on the East Coast — Main Street Flushing is the second-largest Chinatown in New York after Manhattan’s, and the customer base here knows its tea. That changes what works at this location compared to the suburban US stores. Sweetness defaults skew lower because walk-ins routinely ask for 30% or 0%, and the staff handle those orders without needing it spelled out. If you are used to American boba-shop sweetness, ask for 30% on a first visit rather than the 70% house recommendation. The jasmine actually comes through at 30% in a way it does not at 70%.
The Premium Jasmine Apple Milk Tea is more popular here than at the brand’s newer US locations, partly because the demographic skews toward customers familiar with fresh-fruit-and-tea pairings from the Chinese mainland. It is a sleeper pick the algorithm-driven reviews from other cities tend to underrate. Order it cold, less ice, with 30% sweetness, and drink it within twenty minutes.
The store carries the brand’s full Snowy Whipped Cream and Matcha lines, including the Snowy Gardenia and Snowy Dancong builds that are absent or rotational at some smaller US locations. Pistachio drinks rotate on availability — both pistachio builds were listed and active on the day this page was verified, but they sell out faster than the milk teas on busy days.
Ordering, pickup, and what to know about delivery
The Flushing store runs three pickup pipelines simultaneously: Chowbus for the brand’s preferred online-order pickup, Uber Eats and DoorDash for third-party delivery, and walk-in kiosk orders. The kiosks are card-only at most check-ins; ask the staff at the counter if you need to pay cash. Pickup pickup-counter reviews on DoorDash mention staffing slowness at peak — one reviewer flagged a clerk on his phone during a backed-up wait — so allow ten minutes of buffer on top of the Chowbus estimated time during weekend evenings.
If you are ordering for delivery rather than visiting, the radius from this store covers most of Queens and parts of north Brooklyn. Uber Eats and DoorDash both show the store, and Hungry Panda is available for Chinese-language order placement.
Bubble tea alternatives within walking distance
Flushing is dense with bubble tea, and the wait at Molly Tea is sometimes long enough that the right move is walking three blocks for an alternative. Within five minutes of Prince Street:
Mr. Wish, Coco Fresh Tea, Kung Fu Tea, Yi Fang Taiwan Fruit Tea, and Tiger Sugar all sit on Main Street between 37th and Roosevelt. Mr. Wish leans fruit-tea-forward; Tiger Sugar covers the brown sugar boba category Molly Tea does not really compete in.
HEYTEA Flushing at 135-29 40th Road is a five-minute walk and the closest comparable Chinese mainland tea chain. HEYTEA leans cold-and-fruit-led where Molly Tea leans hot-and-floral-led.
Chagee also has Flushing presence and is the strongest direct competitor on the tea-quality-and-floral-aromatics positioning. Worth comparing on a different day, not the same visit.
Frequently asked questions for the Flushing store
Is there seating inside Molly Tea Flushing?
The store has limited seating — a few high stools and a small bar-counter setup along the walls. Most customers take their drinks to go. On weekend evenings nearly all available seats fill within minutes. If you are planning to stay and drink, come during a weekday afternoon window.
Does Molly Tea Flushing take cash?
The self-order kiosks are card-only. The staff register can accept cash for in-person orders if you ask, but it slows the line. The simplest path is paying by card at the kiosk.
Is there parking near Molly Tea Flushing?
Street parking on Prince Street is rare on weekends. The closest commercial lots are the Sky View Center garage two blocks south and the Macy’s-anchored lot on Roosevelt Avenue, both running roughly $5 per hour. The 7 train at Main Street–Flushing is two blocks away and is the practical choice if you are coming from elsewhere in Queens or Manhattan.
Can I order ahead to skip the line?
Yes. The Chowbus app holds the store’s pickup orders and gives a real-time ready estimate. Order before you arrive on the train, time the walk over, and you bypass the front-of-line wait entirely. The pickup counter is to the left of the kiosks as you walk in.
How does the Flushing store compare to the Manhattan Chinatown Molly Tea?
The Manhattan store at 63 Mott Street draws a different crowd — more tourist-heavy, slightly higher walk-in foot traffic from the Canal Street area — but runs a comparable menu and the same price tier. The Flushing store has more local Chinese-speaking regulars and longer hours on weekends. Drink quality at both is consistent because the brand standardizes its scenting process and tea sourcing across all US franchisees.