Ten Ren's Tea (Empress Walk)

bubble tea... After all these posts, I haven't posted once about bubble tea because I haven't been to a bubble tea place in months. I was looking for a place that we could grab some dinner, while still being able to chill out for longer, so we headed over to Ten Ren's at Empress. Ten Rens is mainly known as a place mainly for bubble tea as they have a long extensive menu of different bubble tea drinks, but we also got some food as we were all starving.

Each of us got one of their set rice meals (all are $8.49 + tax/tip, and additional cost to change the drink to a more expensive drink). Each meal comes with a soup, 2 small appetizers (kimchi, cold bean sprouts), a bowl of rice, meat dish and a small cold green or black tea. Between the four of us, we tried the Deep Fried Spiced Chicken and Curry Beef Meals. The food was nothing special at all. The curry beef was just basic curry beef and the deep fried spiced chicken could have been much crispier.
Drinks on the other hand are what this place is known for and 3 of us paid extra to upgrade the drinks to the following: large honey dew slush, large mango slush and large milk tea. Each of these drinks run for about $5-$6 regular price, so they definitely are not cheap, but they look and taste awesome. In addition to this, you can chill at Ten Rens for a long time (same concept as Starbucks- pay premium prices for drinks and chill for hours.lol). Over their drinks are good and the environment is nice to just chill with some friends. In terms of food, it's not really good, so I wouldn't really recommend eating at this Ten Rens location.
It is located beside the Staples at Yonge and Empress with the entrance on Empress. The closest TTC subway station is North York Centre.

Ten Ren's Tea (Empress Walk)
5095 Yonge St. Unit A2
North York, ONT. M2N 6Z6
Tel: 416.229.1688