Dragonfly Tea Zone

Dragonfly Tea Zone is Doug Phung’s bubble tea, smoothie, crepe and loose-leaf tea shop at 409 Main St inside the City Market, River Market — the original of what is now a four-location, KC-owned metro group. Phung opened it as a River Market kiosk called Boba Express in 2003, moved into permanent space three years later as Lollicup Tea Zone, and rebranded to Dragonfly. Bubble teas, smoothies, nutrition blends, tea and coffee lattes, made-to-order sweet crepes, fresh lemonades, plus 150+ loose leaf teas and teaware sold retail and shipped.

Description

Dragonfly Tea Zone is a bubble tea and tea house at 409 Main Street inside Kansas City’s historic City Market, in the River Market. It is the original location of a four-shop, Kansas City-owned group; the others are at Creekwood Common Center in the Northland, on West 39th Street, and in the Oak Park Mall food court in Overland Park.¹

The Johnson County Post reported in February 2025 that owner Doug Phung opened the business as a River Market kiosk called Boba Express in 2003, moved into permanent brick-and-mortar space at the market three years later under the name Lollicup Tea Zone, and eventually rebranded to Dragonfly Tea Zone. Phung, previously an IT consultant, said he had wanted to fill a gap in the local market after encountering the density of bubble tea shops on the West Coast while visiting his brother in California; he told the paper he was interested in further Kansas-side locations because “Kansas is a very big tea-drinker market.”²

The drink menu runs to bubble and milk teas served iced or frozen — almond, original, chocolate, coconut, honeydew, jasmine, lavender, papaya, taro, Thai iced tea, Vietnamese iced coffee and fruit bubble teas — customizable with tapioca boba, popping fruit pearls, coconut jellies or coffee jelly. Alongside them are mixed and single-flavor smoothies, juice-based nutrition smoothies, hot and iced tea and coffee lattes (masala chai, London Fog, matcha, rooibos vanilla chai, caramel, mocha), and fresh-squeezed lemonades and limeades. The kitchen makes sweet crepes to order. The shop also sells loose leaf tea by the category — black, green, white, herbal, oolong, rooibos, chai, yerba mate, fruit tisanes — plus teaware, through the counter and through an online store that ships, with free shipping over $55.¹³ Catering is offered, and the company runs a rewards app.¹

Menu

Last verified: 2026-08-13 · Source: the operator’s own 2025 menu sheet, published as two images on dragonflyteazone.com/menu/ and hosted on the company’s own CDN¹ · menu_status: verified · Confidence: High — prices read directly off the operator’s own posted menu. No aggregator was used. The company also links a third-party ordering storefront (order.online) and an ezCater catering page; neither was used for prices.

Sizes and base prices

• Smoothies — regular 16 fl oz $4.75; large 24 fl oz $5.25¹
• Bubble teas — regular 16 fl oz $5.30; large 24 fl oz $5.80; comes with boba, served iced or frozen¹
• Specialty drinks — $6.75, large 24 fl oz only: Mangoñada Smoothie, Horchata Smoothie, Tareo Smoothie, Tiger Milk Tea, Nutella Milk Tea¹
• Lattes — iced regular 16 fl oz / hot regular 12 fl oz $4.75; iced large 24 fl oz / hot large 16 fl oz $5.25; customizable sweetness; whole, almond, oat milk or non-dairy creamer¹
• Additional toppings — +$0.55 each: tapioca boba, kiwi/lychee/passionfruit/mango/strawberry popping pearls, coffee jelly, green apple / lychee / passionfruit / strawberry coconut jelly, mango jelly¹

Bubble and milk teas

Almond, original, chocolate, coconut, green apple, honey, honeydew, jasmine, lavender, mango, passionfruit, papaya, peach, strawberry and taro; plus iced coffee, Vietnamese iced coffee and Thai iced tea.¹

Smoothies

Mixed flavor — Aloha Tropic, Avocado (market availability), Banana Berry, Berry Blast, Kiwi Quencher, Mango Peach Topper, Mango Tropic, Mega Mango, Peach Perfection, Piña Colada, Strawberry Banana, Triple Latte. Single flavor — banana, blueberry, cappuccino, cherry, chocolate, chocolate mint mocha, coconut, coffee, green apple, honeydew, kiwi, lychee, mango, papaya, passionfruit, peach, raspberry, strawberry, taro, white chocolate mocha.¹

Nutrition smoothies

• Green Energy Boost — $7.50 — banana, kale, spinach, mango, pineapple, orange juice, energy boost¹
• Berry Antioxidant Bliss — $7.50 — banana, strawberry, blueberry, spinach, cranberry juice, C-1000 supplement¹
• Detox Delight — $7.50 — mango, blueberry, spinach, kale, cranberry juice, detox boost¹
• Protein Powder House — $7.50 — banana, chocolate whey, chocolate flavor, PB Fit¹
• Power Punch — $6.50 — carrot, pineapple, strawberry, beet, cranberry juice¹
• Strawberry Fields — $6.50 — carrot, banana, strawberry, apple juice¹
• Tropical Sunrise — $6.50 — carrot, banana, strawberry, apple juice¹

Lattes

Tea — gingersnap rooibos, honeybush hazelnut, honeybush pumpkin chai, London Fog, masala chai, matcha, spiced apple chai, rooibos vanilla chai. Coffee — cappuccino, caramel, chocolate mint mocha, white chocolate mocha, vanilla.¹

Crepes

• French Crepe — $7.50 — Nutella, powdered sugar¹
• Banana Crepe — $8.50¹
• Strawberry Crepe — $8.50¹
• Strawberry Banana Crepe — $8.95¹
• Ooh La La Crepe — $9.85 — Nutella, powdered sugar, banana, strawberry, chocolate drizzle, vanilla ice cream¹
• Donkey Kong — $9.85 — Nutella, powdered sugar, banana, Cinnamon Toast Crunch, whipped cream, chocolate drizzle, ice cream¹
• Fressas con Crema — $9.85 — condensed milk, strawberry, powdered sugar, whipped cream, ice cream¹
• Going Nuts — $9.85 — peanut butter, pecans, powdered sugar, whipped cream, caramel drizzle, ice cream¹
• The Rocky — $9.85 — Nutella, powdered sugar, mint chocolate pieces, Oreo, whipped cream, marshmallow drizzle, ice cream¹

Fresh squeeze

• Lemonade / limeade — $4.00 · Pink lemonade — $4.00¹
• Cherry lemonade / limeade — $4.25 · Strawberry lemonade / limeade — $4.25¹
• Ginger lemonade / limeade — $5.00¹

Loose leaf tea retail

Loose leaf teas listed on the company’s own online store at $2.99 per listing (e.g. Masala Chai, Earl Grey Moonlight, Sencha Organic, Cherry Almond, Peach Bellini, Turmeric Bliss, Rose Hips, Orange Peels); the site advertises free shipping on loose leaf tea orders over $55 and states a catalogue of over 150 loose leaf teas.¹ The unit each $2.99 listing represents is not stated on the pages read. “

Priced items recorded: 21 individually priced items, plus 8 category price points and the topping upcharge.

Sources

Links

• Website: https://www.dragonflyteazone.com/
• Menu: https://www.dragonflyteazone.com/menu/
• Locations and hours: https://www.dragonflyteazone.com/contact-us/
• City Market listing: https://thecitymarketkc.org/merchants/dragonfly-tea-zone/

Footnotes

1. Dragonfly Tea Zone — official site, menu page dragonflyteazone.com, the two operator-posted menu images cdn11.bigcommerce.com and cdn11.bigcommerce.com, and the locations/contact page dragonflyteazone.com — asserts: City Market store at 409 Main St, Kansas City, MO 64105, phone (816) 527-0056, hours Mon–Thu 10 a.m.–4 p.m., Fri 10 a.m.–5 p.m., Sat–Sun 9 a.m.–5 p.m.; the three other locations and their addresses, phones and hours (Creekwood Common Center 215D NE Englewood Rd 64118; 1809 W 39th St 64111; Oak Park Mall 11149 W 95th St #185, Overland Park KS 66214); corporate contact Doug Phung, Gotboba@gmail.com, (816) 716-5493; the complete price list reproduced above, from the operator’s own 2025 menu sheet; “over 150 loose leaf teas”; $2.99 loose leaf tea listings and free shipping over $55; catering; a rewards app; footer ”© 2026 Dragonfly Tea Zone”. All pages returned HTTP 200 on 2026-08-13. (Accessed 2026-08-13.) ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸ ↩⁹ ↩¹⁰ ↩¹¹ ↩¹² ↩¹³ ↩¹⁴ ↩¹⁵ ↩¹⁶ ↩¹⁷ ↩¹⁸ ↩¹⁹ ↩²⁰ ↩²¹ ↩²² ↩²³ ↩²⁴ ↩²⁵ ↩²⁶ ↩²⁷ ↩²⁸ ↩²⁹ ↩³⁰ ↩³¹ ↩³²

2. Johnson County Post — “Kansas City-based tea shop Dragonfly Tea Zone expanding to JoCo” (February 24, 2025) — asserts: owner Doug Phung; opened as a kiosk at Kansas City’s River Market in 2003 under the name Boba Express; moved to permanent brick-and-mortar space three years later and rebranded as Lollicup Tea Zone before becoming Dragonfly Tea Zone; four existing Missouri-side metro shops with a fifth planned at Oak Park Mall by end of March 2025, positioned on the upper level near the food court; Phung’s prior work as an IT consultant and his stated interest in more Kansas-side locations; boba tea, 130+ loose leaf teas, smoothies, coffee drinks, crepes and macarons. The article contains no mention of franchising. ↩

3. The City Market — official merchant listing, “Dragonfly Tea Zone | Bubble Tea & Smoothies | Kansas City” — asserts: active City Market merchant as of 2026-08-13, listed under both Restaurants and Specialty Grocers; 409 Main Street, map location 2B; bubble teas, smoothies, loose leaf teas, fresh lemonades, coffee drinks, nutrition smoothies and made-to-order crepes; toppings including tapioca boba, popping fruit pearls, coconut jellies and coffee jelly; loose leaf tea and teaware retail; catering and online ordering; multiple locations including City Market, Oak Park Mall, Creekwood Common Center and West 39th Street. (Accessed 2026-08-13.) ↩