Miss Cheese Tea Cafe — Restaurant in Pasadena

I have tried the Mango Loves Coconut, Strawberry Sunset, Passion Fruit green tea, and Oat Milk tea with cream cheese, all of them with 75% sugar (all at different times, don’t worry!!) The sweetness for all the drinks are all relatively perfect. When I first came and asked about the sweetness of the drinks, the cashier explained that they their drinks are less sweet compared to other places. If you’re an extreme sweet tooth, you may not enjoy these drinks. I would recommend the ones with fruit in them though as they’re made of real fruit and therefore, the sweetness in the drink is mainly composed of the fruit.

The Mango Loves Coconut was just okay to me. Not a super fan, but it wasn’t anything they did wrong. Presentation is super cute and they use this cup that is rounded on the bottom. Inside there were many chewy objects which I suspect were pieces of lychee and maybe other thing? (Hehe not really sure but they were pretty good!) Strawberry sunset was very good! The strawberry flavor was definitely real strawberry and I could also feel the seed when I was drinking it. The yakut added a very nice touch to the drink and overall it tasted wonderful. Passion fruit tea tasted pretty sweet and was very delicious. The Oat Milk Tea with Cheese Foam was probably my favorite. I really loved the oat milk as I was drinking it. Their cheese foam is absolutely delicious. It really made the whole drink taste sooo good. At the very end of the Oat milk tea they also add real oats! The real oats + cheese cream foam tastes very yummy.

Overall, all the drinks were pretty good, the atmosphere is pretty calm, and not many tables (4). In response to the complaint about their wait time, Miss Cheese posted a blackboard stating your drink will be free if you were to wait for 30 minutes.

Their famous soufflé pictured below was pretty good! Some tips: don’t expect a french soufflé (it’s not as light as those soufflés), and it takes a while for them to make it: 10-15 minutes? (maybe the owners of Miss Cheese should warm the customers; I knew it would take some time but didn’t really know...

Small shop, limited seating, maybe about 5 tables available only. They really need one or two more tables. Service was really good but they seem a little disorganized and frazzled. I was told that it would take 25-30 minutes for my soufflé but it ended up being maybe only 15 minutes. There were no open tables but a little before I got my soufflé, two tables opened up at the same time, so we were able to get a seat.

Mille Crepe Cake was excellent. Super moist and creamy. The texture was perfect, so soft! Excellent flavor, not too sweet.

I got the Soufflé Matcha Lover because there were pictures of it on the television screen next to the menu that kept playing the same ad photos over and over. The Matcha Lover showed a decadent matcha cream poured all over the top, garnished with strawberries on a nice white plate.

Disappointingly, when I got my soufflé, it was served in a paper hot dog tray, tucked into another to-go box. I was unhappy about the box because I hate constant disposable lifestyle we live, plus it just doesn't look good in photos. It was so hard to try to take the tray out of the box that I was afraid I'd make a huge mess doing so that I ended up just leaving it alone. Instead of the fresh strawberries that I saw on the ad photos, I got a couple of green tea panda cookies and red beans- I hate both. Had I known that that was what I was going to get based on false advertising, I would've requested the fresh strawberries. The soufflé isn't nearly as thick or as fluffy as they show in their ads either. The saving grace of that dessert was that it was definitely moist and the matcha was solid. It had that really deep, grassy taste indicative of matcha.

The drinks are great. The Passion Fruit Green Tea has real passion fruit in it versus just syrup and they have nice varieties of Oolong tea as well. The soufflés are a little overpriced for something that really just tastes like a...

This was our first time having Japanese souffle pancakes outside of Japan so we were excited to see what we could get here in Southern California after a pretty amazing experience in Kyoto a few years back. Generally speaking, the food was good in a kind of okay atmosphere.

They were out of a bunch of things on their menu (including Japanese Omelet and the Air Fried Plant-Based Popcorn Chicken Bowl) which we were really excited about trying...and glancing at the menu today a few weeks after our visit I see these items are still listed as "out of stock." In fact, their menu has 11 items listed that are "out of stock" so maybe they never really have them and should just take them off the menu to not disappoint folks hoping for some of these uniquely Japanese offerings they list.

The atmosphere leaves a little to be desired...it's a small space with some cute things to do (like a little pool table) but it does feel a little run down and a bit of a departure from the "clean and cute" vibe you'd expect from a place bringing you Japanese culture. Also, the staff (who may also be the owners) seemed unhappy...never a smile or any kind of indication they were happy you were there.

Despite all that the food came out quicker than expected and it was all good. The souffle pancakes were, of course, the star...they may not have been as beautifully presented as what we had in Kyoto, but they tasted good and were VERY fluffy.

I thought the Ooling Cheese Foam Tea was good and reminiscent of what I've had at other Japanese-style (yet sans fluffy pancake) bakeries around town.

We don't live in Pasadena so probably wouldn't make another special trip to have this and we definitely wish they had more of the "out of stock" items that still exist on their menu...but if you're nearby, and you've never had Japanese souffle pancakes, it's worth...