Green Tea Bistro

My husband couldn’t stop talking about his food. I had to order through Eat 24 because my husband has a busy schedule and so do I. I ordered the food to be delivered to his work for him in between clients. It was simple and my husband just loved the food. I’m sure he’ll have me order again. We got the Meat filled steamed dumplings, fried rice and Chicken!

Worst customer service in the world, after placed the order for half hour, ask an elder waitress how was everything going. Somehow she claimed she is the boss, and yelled at us: you guys either wait or get out right now! She exactly said Get Out Right Now!!! WTF!

Estimated wait time was 45 minutes on a Friday and they got here in less than 30 minutes. I had a couple crab puffs which were great. My poor friend had seconds of the orange and sesame chicken and ended up with a «food baby» haha. Overall they were great and the fortune cookies were definitely strange.

Yum yum yum! Their food is very fresh, and not as greasy as other Chinese restaurants — you don’t feel like puking from a super full belly after eating a lot of great food! Give it a try! One of the best in this area!

I keep meaning 2 Unilocal about this place… Really delicious! The walnut chicken, steamed potstickers and moo shu pork are my favorites so far. The order is always hot, complete and fresh and they’re always very nice
An update 2 my previous post… Again LOVE this little place… Food is delicious. People are lovely, what else is there 2 say… Torn about this because it was JAMMED 2day!!! Hope I’ll still b able 2 get in!!! Kidding, hope they continue 2 do well., they really deserve it… Tough business, I know… Retired f&b…

As an Aries, does eating lamb count as cannibalism?
The birthday festivities continued well into the weekend where I had to put my foot down and say enough is enough. It’s good to celebrate my birthday but if I eat anymore, I’m gonna have to buy new jeans, a size up. Eeks! So lunch at GTB was the last indulgence [minus the two giant birthday cakes I have sitting in the fridge — lawdy!] for my birthday week.
Lunch today was delish. I don’t know what’s up with the latest slew of 3 stars and below because this place is great! It’s laid back, not pretentious, and they serve up some authentic fare. Music does not play in here so it’s just you and your buddies filling in the silence which is kind of nice. Service can be spotty since this place can go from empty to packed fast and they only have like two or three servers so be patient. Both English and Chinese are spoken here so rest assure, your order will be placed correctly and all questions will be answered.
For the five of us, we ordered: Toothpick Lamb, Walnut Shrimp, Beef with Bitter Melon, Hot Pot with Vegetables and Pig Intestines, Salt & Pepper Squid, and West Lake Beef Soup. The food was great! My favorite was probably the Toothpick Lamb — braised lamb cubes marinated in cumin and crushed chili peppers… aw yis! The Walnut Shrimp was pretty standard with a more than generous amount of sweetened mayonnaise on it, the Bitter Melon was definitely bitter [I like it!], the intestines in the hot pot was cleaned which is the only way to eat it [if you eat these dirty, you’re dirty. Don’t talk to me.], and the Salt & Pepper Squid had good flavor. All this and a West Lake Beef Soup cost us about $ 75.
GTB is a solid place if you want some authentic Chinese food without the wallet-​gouging prices. Portions are generous and the food is hot and tasty!

Delicious authentic chinese food! First time trying chinese hot pot and i totally loved it :) Definetely coming back for seafood pot. Clean tables and floor, quiet area and price is about right! Its not a cheap, grab-​and-​go place, but a Chinese restaurant. Very excited to find this new place!

I was super excited to try this place because of all the great reviews but I wasn’t too impressed. I wish I could say more positive but really the only positive was the yummy tea and the great service. My boyfriend got the Mongolian beef and he was not very impressed. I got the chicken lo mein and it was better than his meal. I really did not enjoy it. It has this greasy burnt taste. I can’t even explain it. It gave me a very weird after taste. Like I said, the service was awesome but I don’t think I will be rerunning.

I called and placed an order for an Orange Chicken lunch with fried rice and a side of Lo Mein. I was told I didn’t meet their $ 15 minimum order so I ordered 2 orders of egg rolls. I received Lo Mein, egg rolls, and a side of fried rice. I didn’t order a side of fried rice. I paid over $ 20 for this meal and didn’t even get what I wanted. These guys are horrible. Their food is nothing to brag about. Its average at best. If you cant take an order don’t own a business! I would never recommend this place!

First time here I was a great experience. The food is fresh and great tasting. I ordered Tofu and Brown rice. The dish was as aspected. Delicious! Will be coming back for sure.

Ordered my food through Seamless Web. They said it would take approximately 1 hr and it did. The delivery guy was really nice and tried his best to find me (at a hotel). I thought the food was a little expensive but the portions are big so it makes sense. The chicken with broccoli was really good. They don’t use too much sauce or that cheap thick one. I ordered a tofu vegetable soup and that was my favorite. It’s like a white egg drop soup with mushrooms, bamboo, tofu and cilantro (I asked for no carrots). I also got the wonton soup and the broth was flavorful. I have no complaints about this place.

I was rather excited to order from them when I saw that it got pretty decent reviews. I was even more excited when I saw they have Singapore Mei Fun. I noticed that on their menu, there was no description of what type of meat you could choose from so I wrote in the comments box to add 5 spice bean curd or Tofu (if they didn’t have bean curd). I assumed that since there was no choice of meat in either the description or when placing the order that it didn’t come with meat in it. With that assumption, I thought my comment about adding the bean curd made sense. Well I received a call right after placing the order from the restaurant.
The gentleman on the phone was unsure what I meant by adding bean curd or tofu. I had to explain that if they have bean curd, I prefer that. He then asked me if I wanted $ 1.00 or $ 2.00…I had to get clarification on what he meant by that. I had to ask multiple questions in regards to what the difference was. All I was able to get out of him was that $ 1.00 would add about 6 pieces of bean curd. I told him to go ahead and add $ 1.00 worth of bean curd…
An hour and 15 minutes later (keeping in mind that I ordered at 2pm, way after church was over when restaurants are the busiest) They arrived at my work which is a block away from them. When I picked up the food from the front desk, the lady stared at me with a blank stare. I asked where I need to sign and she advised that I need to pay the $ 1.08 difference. I advised her that I was under the impression that my card was going to be charged the updated total once I added bean curd. Nope not the case, her reply when I stated that the gentleman on the phone didn’t specify that I needed to have cash on me (which I don’t) to pay for the difference instead of them making it easier by charging my card that they already had from my order.
Instead, I was advised that I have to call a separate number not related to their restaurant and pay the difference… Interesting.
The best part about all of this is that the item I ordered has beef, chicken, pork AND shrimp in it… Oh we cannot forget about my 6 pieces of bean curd.
So all of the frustration could have been avoided if their menu had a simple description and/​or option to choose a meat that I would have preferred.

I drove 25 minutes each way to come here for a nice dinner out with the kids after reading the reviews with high hopes. Kids and I were excited, but left unimpressed. There are no kids menus which was the first small disappointment. We moved on. I ordered soups for the three of us, crab puffs, shrimp lo mein to start, then lemon chicken, moo shu pork, root beer for the kid, and hot tea for my oldest and I. The tea took around 10 minutes, then came the crab puffs (the puff crab was pretty good). The tea was a full tea pot with 1– yes one tea bag in the entire thing. More like lightly colored water). Next came the lo mein about 10 minutes after that. Then we waited. And waited.
Finally came the moo shu. Here’s where the real disappointment starts. The wraps were very dry and stale and broke as soon as I tried filling them. Next came out the lemon chicken. The sauce is on the side and just tasted like honey. The chicken was about as dry as could be and took a crazy amount of pressure to cut into. Now we’ve been here about an hour and my youngest pipes up asking where his soup is. Kid will only eat lo mein and soup. I flagged down a waiter and asked about the soup. Apparently it was never put in. That was another 15 minutes. By this time he is hungry and grumpy. I’m tired and grumpy.
We’re ready to go, but wait for this soup. Egg drop for him, and wonton for us other 2. Wonton was about as bland as could possibly get. Egg drop was fantastic. Luckily he liked mine better and I ate his. Finally something that tasted good! My oldest says the moo shu was pretty good. So now we’re done and yet we sit there waiting and waiting and waiting for the check. I finally went to the counter, paid and left. I think we all agree though that between the wait, the dropped order, the lack of kids dishes, the wait (did I say that already?) and the bland/​chewy/​dishes we had, we won’t be back.

This is a great place for Chinese. We’ve had delivery and dine in and we do prefer dine in.
The Orange Chicken is great! The Egg Drop Soup is some of the best soup I have ever had. The Singapore Noodles are fantastic. I love how you can tell them what spice level you want both when ordering online and at the restaurant. I love spice where others in my household don’t.
If you dine in you will find that the restaurant is super clean. I’ve been in many Chinese restaurants where you cringe a little because of the cleanliness but not here, very clean.
They are a little pricier than most area Chinese restaurants but it is certainly worth the extra. We usually go to Teriyaki Kitchen down the street but after going to Green Tea a few times we seem to pick Green Tea more often.

FAVORITE NEW PLACE!
Walked in 8:30pm-ish, placed an order to go.
I ordered:
chicken lettuce wraps: Absolutely delicious, lettuce came in separate bag w/​sauce on side & chicken filling in another container, not very spiced up so it was just to my liking! I couldn’t stop eating them.
Beef & Broccoli: it was ok, broccoli was fresh & looked nice (it wasn’t my dinner dish)
Wonton soup: «alright» according to person eating it. To me it was simple & to the point.
Steamed chicken w vegetable: great, vegetables looked nice & fresh, great texture, chicken was steamed to perfection, and sauce in the side was a little on the sweet side (also to my liking)
Dishes come w/​rice, good rice.
The bag was packaged nicely & survived the drive home unharmed.
The restaurant had many customers even towards closing hours & had beautiful green plants (live, which I am jealous of)
If you are thinking of checking this place out, go! It was my first time here tonight & I have so much food left over & can’t wait until I can eat it again.

Now I have to say, it ain’t good if it ain’t attracting Asians, and this place was flocking with Asians. The food was really delicious. I don’t really see a flaw about it, it was clean, the staff was nice and the food, well my food was ready in 15 minutes just like they said, and it was great! Fresh hot! And the Tupperware is a plus! Don’t throw it away, you can reuse it in the near future. Good bang for your buck and I ordered for pick up and they packed it very securely in a brown paper bag, very presentable. Yeah I’ll definitely be coming back here every time I get the chance.

Originally, I was non-​plussed about ordering from here, despite the great reviews and my husband’s insistence. But my hubs has great taste, so I trusted his instincts. As always, he was right.
The Break Down:
We ordered online an orange chicken combo (wonton soup, rice, and egg roll) and shrimp chow fun, plus brown rice, for delivery. The website estimates delivery times will take 45 minutes to an hour, and it took a solid 45 minutes, so I wasn’t unhappy about that — they were true to their words. For 6:30 on a Saturday, I thought that was super reasonable.
Now here’s the thing: The other reviewers are totally right — GTB serves authentic Chinese food. Since it’s authentic, it’s dog-​diggity tasty. Hands down, the best wonton soup of my life; tasteable sesame oil, flavorful, delicious pork in the wontons, plenty of fresh green onions (my favorite part) – it was a layered, delicious soup that I will happily order literally for forever. The orange chicken was cooked beautifully – saucy without being gross, not too spicy, and actually tastes like orange. Win! The egg roll was crispy, hot, and stuffed with goodness. Excellent.
The chow fun. Guys, this is not a Chinese dish that you find at most fast-​food Chinese restaurants (apparently). It was FABULOUS. I’d never had it before, but it’s wide, flat, pad-​thai like rice noodles (gluten-​free win), cooked until tender, springy, and super slurpy. What a treat! This dish blew my mind.
The only downsides: The chow fun had only six pieces of shrimp in it — like normal-​sized shrimp. So that was a downer. And the fried rice is NOT your normal Chinese fried rice. It’s seasoned tastily and fried with egg, but has none of the standard American fare like peas, onion, etc. So that took me aback. The perfect brown rice more than made up for it though.
TLDR: Order from here. Do it. You will be delighted. I cannot wait to order from them again, though I’m now nervous at the impending relationship between my bank account and their kitchen.

Okay, I really give this place a 4 ½ stars, but I’ll round up to 5.
Although the name is deceptive because a bistro? Really? Maybe it’s the new wave of younger Chinese? The restaurant is clean and the people working there are Chinese and super friendly, polite. That is a huge plus and caters to non-​Chinese.
When we came in, they gave us the non-​Chinese menu. My daughter asked what Moo Goo Gai Pan is. I said, something non-​Chinese people order. My friend who brought us there said they have a Chinese menu, so we asked for that.
Most of the food is Cantonese, but I did see a couple things that were more northern, Mandarin food. I don’t know if they spoke Cantonese, because I only heard people speaking in Mandarin, but their English is very good.
As for the food, it was good and it was normal portions similar to a regular Chinese, Chinese restaurant. During our near hour there, we saw mostly Chinese people come in, and only 1 table had non-​Chinese people there.
You know when you go to a Chinese restaurant and you see mainly Chinese people eating, it’s more authentic and caters to the taste of the Chinese. We are no exception.
The food was good. We ordered 5 dishes — Curry Chicken (tasty), Salt & Pepper Pork Chops (decent, but I have had better), Singapore Mai Fun (good), Sizzling Pepper Beef (good taste and very sizzling), Eggplant with Minced Pork Garlic Sauce (I would not recommend as it had a slight sweet taste in it, which is not normal to me). Four out of the 5 dishes we got were good. The eggplant wasn’t terrible, but it would not be a dish we would get again. It really wasn’t hot & spicy as we expected. This was an odd taste for this dish that I’ve had many times at other places.
Service was good.
My only other comment is that most of the dishes did not come with serving spoons. That was a bit odd that we had to ask for spoons and then they gave a small spoon for one of the dishes. That is odd.
But, everything else was good. The food came out hot. The service was excellent. We didn’t have to wait too long for the food. We would come back again and I would recommend to my siblings & their families.

I like that they have an option to place an online order. I find it more convenient. I scheduled my pickup time for 1 hour and 45 out. I arrived exactly on time and my food was ready for me.
I ordered Hunan2. Which had beef and shrimp. This had a nice flavor and just the right amount of spicy.
I also ordered beef low mein. The noodles were good. The beef was lacking in flavor. I added salt and soy sauce. I should have asked if they had chili oil. I love that stuff.
Of course I had to order the green tea after reading all the Unilocal reviews. I guess I’m going to be one of the few who don’t care for it.
This doesn’t taste like any green tea I’ve ever had before. It has an after flavor. Like something is added to this tea. The flavor to me, is similar to gemnema slyvestre.
Overall, it’s a nice clean, friendly restaurant with descent Chinese food. It’s not my favorite so I probably won’t be back.

I drove 6 and ½ miles to this place to try it, and I must say, TOTALLY worth it! I got takeout because I didn’t have the time to dine-​in. But this review will be for take out and the Restaurant itself. I’ll definitely be back! I will give a review on the dine-​in experience, which I’m predicting will be awesome!
First Impressions–
When I entered the Restaurant, I notice that’s it is VERY clean, well organized, and maintained. The chairs and tables were in good shape and clean. It’s a very quiet/​relaxing environment with music at just the right volume. That Staff is very friendly and seems to care about Their Customers as well as Their experiences.
My Experience–
As soon as I walked in, I was greeted by the Friendly Gentleman at the Cashier Desk. I asked Him for a To Go Menu, which He gave me and said «Please take your time, Sir and let me know if you have any questions». I decided to order the ‘Chef’s Special: Orange Flavored Chicken’ with Lo-​Mane instead of Rice. He told me it will be ready in about 10 – 15 minutes, which He was right. He asked me if I wanted a glass of water while I wait. — It’s little things like that, that make the customers coming back. Kudos to the Owner!
The Food–
The Orange Flavored Chicken was crisped to perfection, not too overcooked, just perfect. The sauce was tasty and flavorful. You can taste the the real orange flavor. There was just enough spice to give it that spicy flavor and be enjoyable at the same time. The Lo-​Main was tasty, soft (not stale), and not over cooked.
I would recommend this place to anyone! The food is very good, authentic, and cooked to order. The Staff actually cares about Their Customers. This is the cleanest Chinese Restaurant I’ve ever been to and I will be back for more!
P. S. If You’re the owner reading this; please remain the Small Business that you are, and keep doing what You and Your wonderful Staff are doing! I notice you Guy’s have a Unilocal Sign in You Restaurant, and You have every right to Brag!
Thanks! — Gabriel Salazar