Chick&tea Pleasanton — Restaurant in Pleasanton

Having tried this place 4 times already so I’m ready for a review. The place isn’t big and it can get crowded. Ordering online is easy and saves waiting time, but I found that sometimes their prices at the store are a tad lower. Thus, phone orders may be the best - saves time and money.

The best thing about this place is its GPIE (fried chicken). Even though it’s chicken breast, it’s made thick and juicy. They also give you packets of chili powder so you can sprinkle as much as you like based on your preference (something that I wished Bentolicious would have done). The second best thing is their fried jumbo squid. The grilled jumbo squid isn’t bad either. We have bought these items many times. The crispy tofu was mediocre and forgettable. We only dined in once and we had their bento. If we had to compare their bento boxes to Bentolicious, I must say that Chick & T has better main ingredients like the GPIE or popcorn chicken. However, their side dishes are so-so and you don’t get to choose. Bentolicious has much better side dishes and you can choose 3 sides. I’d say the side dishes are actually the highlights of Bentolicious. Thus, I would buy fried or grilled items at Chick & T and if I craved a balanced bento, I’d head to Bentolicious.

Interesting that this location does not have tea (or milk tea) like the other locations. Not that their milk teas were the best, but at least it was convenient to consume it along with the fried stuff. Perhaps that’s why this location was named “Chick & T” while the others were named...

I was in area on some business heading to pizza but saw this place. Do we opted to try this out instead. The food is like 4.5. The place stark but clean .

The chicken bento was dynamite—2 large cutlets in sweet 5 spice marinade. Then deep fried. The rice had minced pork belly sauce. The veggies were good. Portion was very large. There were leftovers

The pork belly was equally delicious. But since the rice already had it as sauce it was extra. It was succulent and delicious too. Rice portion was large and 6 but pork belly chunks (about 2inch cubes) sane veggies—tomato egg and garlic sautéed choy. Hadn’t tried tea...

This place looks clean from the outside. The inside of the kitchen is very dirty. This restaurant is very dirty. I worked. I repaired a constitutional pipe there and they also asked me to change the tap. They gave me an old tap. I told them, I need to buy a new one, I installed the old one, it leaks again. They called me the next day, please come, fix it for us. I came again and gave me the old tap. I installed my spare parts for them. The seal was no longer leaking, then for the work. They didn't pay me. I work an hourly rate. And they write a bad review for me, they didn't pay me...