Tea Cafe On the Corner

More of 3.5 out of 5
Spacious place but can get busy around lunchtime. Service is quick & friendly!
Good drinks, I usually get milk teas.
Their food is good, but not to say the best. Hits the spot for when I’m craving for Asian food on campus.
I usually get the bento box and it comes with cabbage, eggroll or stewed egg, rice, soup, and your choice of protein (i.e, Kung Pao Chk, Katsu, etc.)

I mainly come here for the drinks – my favourite is the almond black milk tea (sometimes with boba, sometimes without). Their beef stir fry flat noodles are pretty good, too!

Tea Café is me and my Norman friends’ meet up spot for food every time I’m in town. I’m a sucker for Chinese food, especially when it’s cold (I don’t really know why). Their portions are huge and they have lots of boba tea! My favorite is the Watermelon Juice, but it’s only available in the summer. They have great prices for what you get too! I can’t go to Norman and not have Tea Café!

Two stars only because the tea is amazing. The chicken fried rice was so greasy my stomach hurt the rest of the night. The manager seemed to be yelling at/​insulting all the wait staff/​cashiers. It made for a very awkward environment. I would not recommend getting food or eating inside, only getting tea to go.

Probably the slowest restaurant in the state of Oklahoma… They also forgot my order so super chill.

Waiter was super nice. Huge selection of teas. I liked it. Food looked food but didn’t eat here

Best milk tea!
Go try the almond milk tea w/​black tea or ross milk tea with black tea! Yum! Definitely the best.
Food was okay in my opinions.
I started out with the octopus balls! Pretty good. Comes in 8. Dip is sweet. I liked it.
Had their flat rice noodle, fried rice, and 3 spice tofu! Out of the three, I enjoyed the 3 spice tofu the most! Yum. Definitely a good choice!
Enjoy!

I’ve probably been more than ten times over the last 4 – 5 years. They have great fresh juice; melon is seasonal and the orange juice is superb. The steamed dumplings are great. The food itself is more mediocre. You can customize a lot which helps, but most of it has too much sauce and ends up tasting not very fresh especially the veggies.

Love the food and the drinks! It’s the one place I miss the most after moving out of norman. It’s conveniently located on campus corner (and another location on Alameda), and everyone there’s super nice!

The East Asian (TEA) Café was one of the first places to offer boba tea in the area. Their teas are really great and have a good selection of flavors and boba to choose from. Their bento boxes are pretty good and are a good deal for someone wanting a mix of several different items for their meal. Personally my favorite dish is the Singapore noodles. The noodles are very thin and served in a quite spicy sauce with your choice of meat.
I think I’d probably categorize this place as pan-​Asian cuisine with an American twist. It’s quite good.

The atmosphere and wait staff are pleasant and welcoming, but the food is very poor quality.
It is obvious they use frozen, pre-​prepared foods and microwaves to heat, even «steam» it — nothing tasted fresh. For example, my «fried» tofu was not at all crispy as one would imagine, and it was room-​temperature on the outside, piping hot on the inside! All of the vegetables tasted exactly like those horrible frozen veggies Mom used for hurried dinners — bland, soggy, and void of any nutrition.
What’s the point in going out to eat if you could experience the same low-​quality for half the price via a frozen dinner?
Perhaps this place is only worth a visit for its beverages…

I’ve had a horrible experience here. Their food and drinks are not worth it, in my opinion.
They get a star for atmosphere. Once walking in it has a very hip Asian vibe to it, but be prepared to have sticky wet tables and seats. So maybe half a star for the vibe.
Their food whether the Fried Rice or the Noodles are overly greasy and you feel like you’ve had BP spill all over your lips after eating it. Their Wonton Noodle Soup here tastes like the instant kind, with fake noodles and seasoning. Their lunch specials aren’t that special and provide you with very little sustenance. Don’t order anything with seafood or fish in the name, you’ll get a few skimpy pieces here or there and if you get lucky you’ll get something resembling fish! Also food orders take anciently long, I’m pretty sure I’ve spent about 45 minutes here one of the times I went. Why do I keep torturing myself and going back? Friends, the sacrifices I make for them. But no stars for food!
I’ll give them a second star for drinks, if I could give half a star I would actually. Their drinks seem freshly made not premade in buckets which makes it unique. So no two drinks will be the same any time you go back. Which is my point no two drinks will be the same, sometimes your drink will be overly sweet or overly diluted. How can you get a measurement wrong? I hope no one working there is a Chemistry Major, geez. How hard is it to put a scoop or two of powder into a cup and properly shake it? Why do I have to do the job of mixing it again or waiting for it to dilute before drinking it? I want my drink now! Why do I torture myself at this place for drinks? My boyfriend, oh how I love you so.
I’ve also had a bad experience with a ginormous fly in my drink that I thought was boba, but on closer inspection it was a huge fly (thankfully it was floating on top and not on bottom). When I went back to tell them about my predicament, the cashier and the person who prepped my drink were completely nonchalant about the issue and weren’t disgusted at all, as though it was a common occurrence. They offered to make me a new drink but when I refused they didn’t offer to refund the money until I asked.
I actually like the original location better than the Campus Corner location. But even then, the quality of food at both places are a complete miss. Drinks are better at the other location though! Just don’t mistake a LARGE fly as misshapen piece of boba. It’s probably not boba.

They make great bubble tea, but they just raised their prices. I’d rather make my own bubble tea than pay $ 4.38 for a large bubble tea in a styrofoam cup.

This place was highly disappointing. First, our table was sticky from the quick wipe down it received as we waited to be seated.
We sat and ordered the following, special milk tea (cold), vietnamese coffee (cold), chicken friend rice, and crispy chicken nuggets. They were all disappointments. The vietnamese coffee tasted like instant coffee and watered down at that. Instead of the rich strong bold coffee taste it tasted watered down like a Mcdonalds iced coffee. Instead of the sweet thick condensed milk you can tell this was not part of the ingredients. The coffee barely tasted sweet and sugar sweet rather than condensed milk sweet.
For the fried rice, you know its bad when the rice comes out a dark brown rather than a light golden brown. This dark color indicates that they only used soy sauce, and too much at that. Then there was the simplicity of the dish, soy sauce, rice, chicken, and egg. I expected more from a restaurant fried rice such as having peas, corns, onions, etc. The taste is nothing better than something I can throw together at home, with lots of oil.
The cripsy chicken nuggets tasted very salty, like it was marinated in soy sauce and fried.
Lastly, the special milk tea tasted like a watered down lychee fruit drink. I did get the lychee jelly but this should not have overpowered the milk tea. It tasted like a carbonated lychee drink with a splash of milk tea.
I feel sorry for the students at OU this is a far cry for these drinks and food are supposed to taste like.
On the upside service was good?

This is another one of my Norman faves. I try to go every time I visit Norman.
They have delicious bubble tea! They have a decent selection of flavors. And they have a variety of add ins as well.
I like their original location, but I prefer the campus corner location.