True'sTea - Richmond

The decor here is pretty spacious and casual. The service is typical Asian, prompt and comes when flagged, but not so friendly. I come here often for their particular Chicken and peanut in chili sauce with rice Combo, as pictured, for $10.95. It comes with a large portion of chicken (enough for two servings; you'll probably need extra rice), bowl of rice, and a side dish with pickled carrots and daikon, peanuts, and a fruit jelly snack. I order the chicken dish for $14.95 by itself, to go, and make my own rice sometimes. This portion is large enough for about 3-4 meals, depending on how much you eat.The chicken dish is very delicious - smoky, crunchy peanuts, soft chicken, savoury, and spicy, a wonderful combination altogether. You may need to remove many dry chilli pieces to lower the hot content, as I do. The rice is nice and soft for absorbing the sauce. It is a bit on the greasy side, so I remove chicken skins to lower the fat content. They seem to use thigh meat here, which is more flavourful.The bubble teas here have gotten smaller over the years, but still comparable to other places in price and size. I have ordered grapefruit greet tea, passion fruit green tea, grape green tea, and taro milk tea - all with pearls (tapioca balls). I find the green tea based drinks lighter and refreshing. The grape drink is too sweet, so I order half sweet. All these drinks are delicious. Their fried squid tentacles comes with a savoury garlic chili sauce priced at $7.95. They are great on their own or with the sauce. I prefer this dipping sauce to other places (with sweet chilli sauce and too sweet). The squid is always cooked perfectly with a delicious light savoury batter. It is nicely soft and chewy. The eggplant with minced pork in garlic sauce for $11.95 (rice for extra $1.50) was another yummy. This is another savoury, but a bit oily dish. The eggplants are soft and the portion is large enough for two servings.I highly recommend this place for their extensive well priced menu, large portions of delicious food, and great selection of yummy bubble teas. This is a go-to Asian spot for me.

My big family and I went there for dessert after dinner. It was disappointing. We ordered hot grass jelly and they came out not hot all at. They were like jelly instead of thick liquid hot grass jelly is supposed to be like. At least, that's the form my family remembered back in Taiwan. We also ordered Tofu dessert with grass jelly added. The taste was very bland for both the tofu and grass jelly. Hot logan teas were ok according to my parents.We also ordered some snacks and again they were not up to standard that we expected Taiwanese snacks to be. There was a 15% service charge automatically on top of bill because of numbers of people. I had to say there was practically no services. Water jar and glass were put on the table. They came to deliver drinks and food. That's it. The place wasn't even busy. They also sell food other than snacks. Perhaps they are tasty but my family and I won't be returning to try them.

Been here a few times and the food is always great, but the prices are going up too, so not sure if it's as great a value as it once was. Food portions are large. My favorite dish is the chile chicken with peanuts, soooo good! Mind you, it's pretty spicy, so beware. The bubble teas are delicious and never had complaints. Service is ok, but I like to be left alone when I eat and chat. You just need to wave at the staff or press the button, if you are at a table that has one - pretty typical for a casual Asian restaurant.

It's been some time since we patronized True's Tea, possibly people become creatures of habit. We remembered that the chicken wings were delightful and the ambiance was comfortable and inviting. We ordered deep fried chicken wings and beef/rice noodles, both dishes met our expectations. I believe the True's Tea still remains open until 3:00 AM

*BE AWARE* No service, Mediocre food and much too sweet drinks.They will ask you for tips !! ( default 15% on card machines)We went there to eat while play darts there. We each ordered an item to meet the minimum order per person. When we were paying for the bill, we left the change on the bill plate.There was no service at all. I had to go to the counter to ask for ice water, ( they put it on the counter, didn't even bring it to the table) The "Manager" asked us after he saw the changes : " did you leave these for tips? if so, take it back , we don't need this kind of tip" .... HOW DARE YOU ask for tips when you provide NO service, NO value, and giving your customer attitude like this and expect to get tips??? NEVER GOING BACK AGAIN!