Tea house
Tea house
3 cocktail shrimps for $25
Dan Dan Noodles
Love shu mai
Egg Drop Soup
Chow fun
Sweet & Sour Chicken
Beef chow fun
Shanghai wonton soup Yummy dumplings!!! Clear broth soup with cilantro
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Szechuan Dumpling In Hot Suace
Crabmeat pork soup dumpling is homemade and so delicious! Filled with lots of meat
Dumpling in chili oil is delicious! BUT meat to wrap portion of off.
Interior of vegetarian egg roll ($1.75). Filling was mushy/gooey & tasted okay, but not great texture.
Steamed vegetable dumpling ($4 for two). Not bad.
Bamboo tips in spicy sauce ($7). Not spicy & too vinegar-y.
Shanghai Juicy Buns! Amazing!
Shanghai scallion pancake ($3.25). Too thick and flavorless.
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Mapo tofu ($10). Perfectly respectable, but not spicy and no Szechuan peppercorn.
Interior of vegetarian dumpling ($6). Good filling, but wrapper was too doughy/thick.
The walls are so fun to look at.
Panduka S.
Jan 23, 2023
I have ordered from tea house many years. It's not your regular Americanized Chinese restaurant. I think it's the only authentic Chinese restaurant in east metro. When the dish say it's spicy it's spicy.. they don't ask for a spice level which speaks for the authentic spiciness of the dish.I usually get they Szechuan dishes which so far has not disappointed me..If you live in St. Paul or Woodbury this is the Chinese restaurant you should try..
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Chris C.
Apr 1, 2024
Dim sum is one of my favorite things to do! Just love it! While Dim Sum is usually offered on the weekends, St Paul Tea House has some Dim Sum items on their daily menu. This must be a fairly recent update as I remember visiting some years back and this was not an option. We actually returned to St Paul Tea House to pick up a specific meal for some friends that were in town visiting. They had complained about the Chinese food they had the other night and that they prefer spicy food. I had previously had the Chong King Chicken from St Paul Tea house and remembered that while it was tasty, it was plenty spicy. While we were in the process of ordering from their website, we noticed the Dim Sum items. Immediately excited I ordered a couple of my favorite items. Shu mai and Crystal Shrimp dumplings. Then as I sometimes do, I went a bit overboard. I decided to order their Honey Garlic Tenderloin, Beef Flat Noodle and a couple of Steamed Buns. The Shu mai were large and just as I remembered. Same with the Crystal Shrimp. They didn't last long. The Beef Flat Noodle is similar to Chow Fun but the noodles seemed to be not as long or flat. Still, it was tasty. The Steamed Buns were also as I remembered from growing up. Soft and pilllowy and filled with savory pork although sometimes they can be filled with BBQ Pork. Bonus is the steamed buns come in a special bag with reheating instructions. The big winner was the Honey Garlic Tenderloin which was sliced thin, tender and savory. Our friends enjoyed their Chong King which had the spice they were looking for. There are several Tea House locations around the metro area. We'll certainly be back again.
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Michelle H.
Aug 31, 2023
I went to the Tea House for lunch with co-workers on a Tuesday at noon. I didn't have the best experience. To start, I ordered the sweet and sour chicken lunch special. It comes with a smaller portion of the sweet and sour chicken and side of white rice, plus an egg roll and a bowl of soup. I ordered the egg drop soup and it was just ok. When the entrees came out, our server informed me that they accidentally made mine as a dinner portion instead of lunch portion so he didn't give me an egg roll. I was pretty disappointed because I was looking forward to the egg roll and definitely did not want or need the dinner portion. When I questioned it again to our server, he said again he wouldn't be bringing out an egg roll because they gave me a dinner portion, so I just left it alone. Also, the sweet and sour chicken wasn't anything special. The sauce was good but the dish definitely needed more of it. However, at this point I was too afraid to ask, as our server made me feel like I was already too much of a bother. My co-workers weren't super impressed with their meals, either. One co-worker was excited to come here but said he'd only ever been to the University location, and this location does not compare. We decided we definitely wouldn't return, as the service and the food were not that great. I'm disappointed because we had high hopes!
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SvetLana Z.
Jan 20, 2024
Quality authentic food. Really enjoyed eggplant with garlic and beef flat noodles.Very interesting venue, features mainland Chinese cuisine.
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Tom F.
Apr 24, 2024
Americanized Chinese food. Not bad. Very salty dishes. There was almost no customer when we dinner there. Food was prepared fairly quick. quality and taste was acceptable. No shining spots.
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Carlie A.
May 14, 2023
Have gotten take out many times and food is excellent. Pork with bamboo shoots, chow fun, and pickled pork vegetable soup are some of our favorites. Will absolutely keep going back!
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Kedar D.
Feb 28, 2021
The Twin Cites metro has a large number of excellent Szechuan restaurants, and Tea House in St. Paul is at the bottom of the list. That said, it's perfectly fine, but if you want better quality, go to places like Grand Szechuan in Bloomington, Szechuan in Roseville or even the other Tea House in Minneapolis.We got the vegetarian egg rolls ($1.75 each) but these had a cream/mushy filling that was off-putting. The Szechuan scallion pancake ($3.50) was too dough and thick with zero flavor. The vegetarian dumplings ($6) fare a bit better, with a nice interior filling, but excessively doughy wrapper.The bamboo tips in spicy sauce ($7) weren't spicy and had too much vinegar. The Szechuan dan dan noodle ($5.50) was forgettable without enough flavor but at least it's meat-free by default.The vegetarian bun ($4 for two) was pretty good, though.We also liked the mapo tofu ($10) which is made without meat by default. Similarly, the kung pao tofu ($10) had a nice savory flavor and range of textures, though the dish doesn't travel well due to the deep fried tofu.The broccoli in garlic sauce ($10) had a gloopy sauce and the broccoli seemed old or under-cooked (or both). The sauteed pea shoots ($13) tasted okay, but this also seemed to suffer from just slightly old greens.All told, Tea House settles out as okay, but not great. Grand Szechuan in Bloomington is a better bet.
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Howard N.
Jul 20, 2024
After coming here since they opened (10 yrs?), I've been away for the past few years, with retirement and Covid. I used to have lunch here at least once a week, since the food was the closest thing to what I ate in China. I ate take out today, and got some of my favorites, such as Dan-Dan Noodles and double cooked pork. The Dan-Dan was OK, but very little sauce and ground pork. Not worth $10 for a bowl of noodles. The pork dish was small and not much sauce. Again not worth $16.I understand they have new owners, and my message to him is "don't try and compete with the many American "Chop Suey" shops, when you have the opportunity to provide authentic Chinese cuisine. If you make it, they will come.
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Derrick F.
Feb 16, 2024
Today my wife and I stopped at this restaurant because my wife was craving Chinese food and it was in close proximity to a Mexican restaurant I frequent, my wife ordered the Singapore rice combination without pork the service was speedy but after arriving home my was upset that the platter had no poultry and 3 counted baby shrimp, normally we wouldn't make a fuss and just refrain from eating there in the future but my wife wanted to call and see if she received the wrong order the person she spoke too refuse to believe there was only 3 shrimps in a plate that costed $23 my advice is to avoid this establishment especially if your expectations is for a delicious fulfillment of food
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Chris S.
Jan 18, 2024
I just moved to the area & tried the sesame beef that was ordered on door dash. This one the worst dishes I have ever had from any Chinese place. It tasted like there was no beef just burnt & charred overcooked. I called and spoke with Yolanda & she was not helpful & just said that it the way it's suppose to taste. the entree price was $27, I would have rather went to Panda Express & paid $10 for a entree that tastes 100% better then this place.
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