Hanlin Tea Room - Rowland Heights

One extra star for service, which was not bad, pretty courteous Came here for lunch, daughter ordered shrimp fried rice. picture in ordering system looked really good, tho expensive for fried rice imo but inflation these days so guess it 's becoming somewhat normal. However when the actual fried rice came, I was just laughing in my head. The whole portion was like the size of my daughters palm. For $12? No thx. Talked to couple of their servers and they both resorts to their leader for my curiosity in essentially false advertisement. One came back and politely said they can take it back, which was fine with me, no way paying what looks like double of what was served. Boba was good, which I also got, so credit is given where is due but I know inflation is bad just this shrinkflation for this order is ridiculous in my opinion. Judge for urselves, u have been warned, I m taking my biz somewhere else

During covid and the constant promotions from uber eats and postmates, this place was one of my go to's for delivery order eating at home. I got to say i prefer this place over boiling point. Their individual hot pot meals were so good and spiced just right. A mild is actually mild unlike Boiling point which varies time to time on their spiciness level for a mild. There dipping sauce is also good which consist of a sesame sauce and a sweet soy based sauce. They also offer other main entrees and sides. I have ordered there oyster omelettes which is large enough to split into 2 portions. The oysters are generous in quantity and the traditional red omelette sauce is perfectly sweet to counter balance the saltiness and the oyster flavor.The taiwanese sausage with the sticky rice hot dog combo is delicious as well. I would wish they had it made it like Taiwan where the sausage is actually placed inside the sticky rice like they do in Taiwan, but it will do. I also got an opportunity to dine-in and the service was good enough for a tea shop. It was attentive and it was not difficult to get services from the waitress. The place is clean and the tea choices are a plenty and great as well. I don't do boba, so i do not know how the quality of their boba are. This place has something to eat for anyone, whether you want a rice plate entree, or something warm and soupy to something to just snack on. They are quick and quality is great.

It seems the workers there dont even bother with menu and insisted using barcode to order. Whats up with more personal service by taking order ? They might as well hire robots to do the work than these useless workers who don 't wanna be there to work. Pathetic experience.

Hot Pot Sesame Oil Chicken I had expected it would be a traditional Taiwanese cuisine, but it more like a chop suey in the sesame oil hot pot. Not so sure how to make out of this. The ambiance as cold as freezer, I ended up dinning outdoor where was warmer. There was practically no service at all; ordered the food from QCode, the server brought it out and paid inside. The two staff inside were so occupying on their smart phones never showed any courtesy. I really like to try other Taiwanese dishes, but might never come back when I think about chilling indoor and no service dining.

Pretty good food. Convenient location in the in and out plaza next to targetI crave Taiwanese Chinese sometimes