I have always known Ten Ren as more a bubble tea place so I was kinda of surprised when I saw they were offering food - not just desserts but actual dinners. We decided to stop by for lunch on Saturday.
Decor: This is probably one of the newer ones as it replaced a Second Cup. Previously as a Second Cup, this place not full at all but now as a Ten Ren, it gets quite busy. The interior has nice comfy booths along the side and several tables in the middle.They also do take-out bubble tea like other spots.
Food: We ordered the traditional meals: one was a minced pork and egg noodle soup and the other was creamy pork soup with rice. For drinks, we tried something different, I had the taro coconut milk tea and my wife ordered 8 treasure chrysanthemum tea. Food came out pretty fast but I did notice something odd with my rice dish. On the pic, the pork seemed crispy but on the rice it seemed soggy and odd coloured. I chalked this up to probably the crispy pork absorbed the moisture and become soggy. Flavour-wise the soup was good - sorta like a thick chowder with rice in it. Pork was so-so - it would have been better crispy. For the noodles, this was the better choice. Chewy and flavourful soup. But to us, the highlight was definitely the drinks (I guess it should be a surprise :)). The hot coconut taro tea hit the spot as a great cool fall weather drink - not too sweet but just enough. Even better was the 8 treasure one - now when you get the drink it seems it is one of those herbal awful tasting ones but to our surprise it was sweet from the red dates. Very nice and definitely will order again.
Overall: We liked Ten Ren for the drinks and I think we will be more adventurous to try their other variations instead of my standard lycee bubble tea. Food is so-so but I would rather return for drinks.