Saint’s Alp Teahouse

As part of my Lenten Sacrifice, I gave up Milk Tea in all of its forms. Those who know me are aware of how much I love milk tea so this was certainly a challenge! But I did it, 40 days without a single drop of Chatime, Serenitea, Gong Cha, Share Tea, Bubble Tea, Teatap, Sip or any of my other regular tea haunts.

I broke the streak with Saint’s Alp! Brother and I have vouchers courtesy of Deal Grocer so we decided to check it out. I’ve been to the one in New York so I was looking forward to trying their first Manila location. Our vouchers dictated that we choose from a set menu.

The interior:

My brother had the Pork Chop and the Green Tea with White Moustache. My brother said they don’t give you enough porkchop considering they give you lots of rice. He ran out of meat and had rice left over. The porkchop is standard of Taiwanese fare, deep fried and sprinkled with “Chinese seasoning.” I don’t know if this is what it’s officially called but that’s how I call it. Maybe it’s just regular old black pepper. But the porkchop has a distinct taste which leads me to believe that it’s five-spice powder.

I had the Beef Tapa and Black Milk Tea. with Pearl Okay it doesn’t look that appetizing in the photo, it tastes better than it looks. The rice was super garlicky which I loved. The beef was a little tough but the taste was exactly that, beef tapa. Nothing spectacularly different, not that I was expecting something extraordinary.

We tried the Tempura Cheese Balls. They tasted like squidballs filled with cheese. We barely tasted the cheese because it oozed out and onto the plate leaving us with a hollow squidball. This was okay.

Omg the glasses were enormous. I was drowning in tea. I like their tea actually. The pearls were not as chewy soft as I ordinarily like but the tea itself was good. My brother’s green tea was alright but I might be biased because I’m not a big fan of this green tea with cheese stuff, or in this case, salted whipped cream.

Here is the menu. They need to make it more readable, imho. But as far as the menu goes, they have a little bit of everything in the tea department. In the food department, they have snacks and meals which sets them apart from other purely tea places.

Tea Lovers, definitely go check it out.

Saint’s Alp Tea House

(The Fort) G/F Forbeswood Parklane, Rizal Drive, Bonifacio Global City, Taguig

Tel: 478-7135