CITEADRINKS

Name: CITEADRINKS
Address: 529 E Valley Blvd #138A, San Gabriel, California, USA
Telephone: +16262107679
Price range: $
Rating: 4.8

328 votes

#171 of 518 restaurants in San Gabriel

#156 of 459 restaurants in East San Gabriel

ClosedOpens at 11AM

Updated 1 month ago

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If you are fond of Chinese cuisine, come to this bar. Based on the reviewers' opinions, waiters serve tasty chinese duck and perfectly cooked pies here. Try good pudding, yogurt and fruitcake. It's time to degustate great fruit smoothies, Chinese tea or ice tea.

At CITEADRINKS, you can order food as a takeout. If you look through the guests' reviews, the staff is hospitable at this place. Fast service is something visitors like here. From the visitors' viewpoint, prices are average. There is a peaceful atmosphere and nice decor at this spot. But this bar has been rated below average by Google.

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(3.9/5)

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komi 3 months ago on Google

ordered 2 einspanner matchas and a cake slice through ubereats, matcha is terrible tastes like cream with a pinch of matcha and they forgot my cake. I checked all my stuff cause I got 2 sea salt foams on the side they're all 2,3,4,5/5 the cake was the first thing on order (1/5) and they never put it in the damn bag. sea salt foam is pretty good though so one star for it but 8.99 for pistachio colored creamy milk is such a joke

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Athena Le 4 months ago on Google

The Brown Sugar Tofu Pudding Teh Tarik is insanely good. Super deep caramel notes, incredibly smooth tea, and the tofu pudding literally melts in your mouth. Bonus points for the cool talisman sticker on the cup. Go get it!

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Royal Siu a year ago on Google

CiTeaDrinks is another boba shop in the San Gabriel Valley. Located in San Gabriel inside of the Sunny Plaza, CiTea is a small shop with self-ordering and a self-service fridge. When I went to CiTea, I initially ordered a drink and noticed that it was only one staff member, but with a few parties inside of the store. After about 10 minutes, she called my number and told me that it would be another 30 minutes since she received a 7-order delivery order. She offered to refund my order if it would be too long. I appreciated her communication and understood how busy rush can get, so I took her up on the offer and decided to come back another day. I recently visited again and noticed that there were two staff members and no line. As such, I decided to try my luck again. I ordered the Ya Shi Xiang (Duck Poop) Oolong Milk Tea with boba and a Ruby Black Tea with Osmanthus Jelly. When we received the drinks, I was surprised to see that our toppings came on the side. My boba turned out to be instant boba and it came inside of a package similar to the photo. As for the osmanthus jelly, it was inside of a to-go sauce container. We were surprised since usually the toppings would be inside of the drinks already; however, we had to put it inside ourselves. As for the drinks themselves, the Ya Shi Xiang milk tea didn't have a strong tea flavor. It had more of a milk taste than a tea taste, which isn't my preference. In fact, since I got it with less ice, the drink tasted even more diluted as time passed. The instant boba was also hard, which made it feel even worse since I paid $1 for the topping. The Ruby Black Tea tasted like ceylon and it was okay since the tea wasn't burnt or over-steeped. The tea jelly was much better than the boba since it had proper structure and a hint of sweetness. Overall, I don't think I would get toppings here again because we need to put it into the drinks ourselves, and the boba comes inside of an instant package. I would stay away from the milk teas since they are milk dominant rather than tea forward, but I am curious about their other drinks.

Response from the owner a year ago

Thank you for your timely feedback. We apologize for your unsatisfactory experience. Please allow us to explain two points: 1. The TOPPING are not added into the cup but placed separately in another box. This is because in the past experience, some customers complained that the TOPPING were not added (in fact, they were added), and some customers complained that the beverage cup was full after adding several TOPPINGS, and there was almost no liquid... Based on various disadvantages and potential disputes, this is our helpless move. 2. There is no difference in ingredients between frozen boba and freshly cooked boba. Both are made of cassava flour and have no additives, which is very healthy. And it ensures the uniformity of sweetness and very good elasticity. This is the progress of modern food technology. For us, its cost is three times higher than that of freshly cooked boba, but we think that such products are more standardized, so we would rather pay the high cost. If you feel that the boba is hard this time, it may only be that the clerk did not operate properly and took it out and gave it to you when it was not completely thawed. This is our mistake. I am very sorry.

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