Black Tree (泰茶) is open. The Thai-tea brand that went viral in China for its cheese-foam cups has taken unit #01-26 on Level 1 of 313@somerset, and it is the brand's first outlet anywhere outside China.
> Quick view: #01-26, 313@somerset, 313 Orchard Road. Open 10.30am to 9.30pm Monday to Thursday and Sunday, 10.30am to 10.30pm Friday and Saturday, per the mall's own store page. Drinks $4.90 to $7.90, gelato from $6.90. No opening promo is still running.
The hours nearly everyone has wrong
Search results, aggregator listings and most opening write-ups say Black Tree trades daily 10am to 10pm. A couple say 11am. The landlord's own store directory says something different again, and it is the one record kept by the party that signs the lease:
| Day | Hours (313@somerset store page) |
|---|---|
| Monday to Thursday | 10.30am - 9.30pm |
| Friday | 10.30am - 10.30pm |
| Saturday | 10.30am - 10.30pm |
| Sunday | 10.30am - 9.30pm |
We read that page on 4 September 2026. The practical difference is half an hour at the front and half an hour at the back on a weekday, which is exactly the margin that turns a special trip into a wasted one.
Where it is, and why you might walk past it
The unit sits on the open-air stretch of Level 1 facing Orchard Road, not inside the air-conditioned mall, so it does not appear on the route most people take from the Somerset MRT link. The centrepiece is a black steel tree.
313@somerset lists the tenant as Black Tree (Asian Tea Lab), which is the name to search in the mall directory. The description it files there is "an experimental space exploring the diverse expressions of Asian tea", a broader positioning than the Thai-tea reputation the brand arrived with.
The menu and what it costs
Black Tree does not publish a menu online, so these are the prices reported when the store opened. Drinks sit in a narrow $4.90 to $7.90 band.
| Item | Price |
|---|---|
| 400 Times Cheese Milk Thai Tea | $6.90 |
| Milky Cat Cheese Milk Thai Tea | $6.90 |
| Matcha Cheese Cloud Jasmine Milk Tea | $6.90 |
| Matcha Cheese Cloud Bamboo Oolong Milk Tea | $6.90 |
| Apple Pomelo Qilan Oolong Tea | $6.90 |
| Sicilian Lemon White Guava Juice | $4.90 |
| Lily Lamb Special Matcha No.1 / No.2 | $7.90 |
| Gelato, cup | $6.90 |
| Gelato, single-scoop cone | $7.50 |
| Branded carrier bag | $2.99 |
One figure to treat as soft: most reports put the Lily Lamb at $7.90, one puts it at $6.90. Check the board in store.
The signature: 400 Times Cheese Milk Thai Tea
The name nods to the hand-whipped "400 times" coffee trend, the dalgona technique of beating coffee until it turns into a thick, airy foam. Black Tree applies the idea to Thai tea: sweet, aromatic Thai milk tea carrying the bitterness of coffee, finished with a thick cheese-cream foam that melts down into the drink. The menu is built on three intense bases, Thai tea, cocoa and coffee, plus a matcha line.
The Lily Lamb, and its 200-cup ceiling
The Lily Lamb Special Matcha is the Singapore-exclusive: a jasmine milk tea base under a thick matcha foam, with the lamb hand-drawn on top. It is capped at 200 cups a day, one per customer, which in practice makes it a morning drink. Arriving in the evening and expecting one is the most common way to leave disappointed.
Every opening promo has ended
Nothing brand-specific is running as of 4 September 2026. For the record, so nobody turns up chasing one:
- 12% off the whole menu ran to 6 August 2026.
- The $19.90 set (Lily Lamb Special Matcha plus 400 Times Cheese Milk Thai Tea, with a Lily Lamb plush worth $9.90) ran during the opening week, plush limited to 2,000 pieces.
- Buy two drinks, get the cheaper one free ran 7 to 9 August 2026, one redemption per person a day.
The only thing live at the address is mall-wide rather than Black Tree's: 313@somerset's Lendlease Plus "A New Lease of Life" bonus Plus$ tiers run to 6 September 2026.
Who actually owns it
Black Tree belongs to DrinkDream (饮之梦), a group set up in Shanghai in 2025 that incubates and runs several drinks brands: Black Tree, Matcha Wang, 九十叶, 泰柯茶园 and 抹趣, with stores across Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Hangzhou, Suzhou and Guangzhou. Worth knowing, because it reframes the Lily Lamb "collaboration": Black Tree and Matcha Wang are stablemates under one owner, not two rivals teaming up.
