This
attractive teahouse/restaurant opened recently in the basement of
Tiger City mall and the fourth establishment of its kind for Taiwan's
largest tea company, Ten Ren's Tea. Looking out onto a sunken outdoor
square on the mall's B1-level, Cha for Tea features glass walls,
classy-looking seating areas and ancient Chinese character decorative
motifs, making it a relaxing, upscale experience. All this highlights
a very extensive Chinese/English menu of tea-based drinks, snacks
and meals that are tasty and well-presented. For reasonable prices,
one can order traditional teas (oolong, jasmine, etc.), hot and
iced milk teas, fruit teas, icees, health teas ("cha for healing"),
rice teas and even Tibetan tea. For food, there are dim sum-style
hot tea snacks (from NT$80), from fresh tea leaf tempura to green
tea mango mousse. Set tea meals--including noodles, fish dishes
and Indian dishes--average NT$220 while individual dishes are as
cheap as NT$80.
