Asian cafes where I can work?

In LA and San Diego, there are lots of Asian cafes that seved boba, coffee drinks, and various types of tripe snack foods and where students hang out to work.

Anything like this in the Chicago area? I'm willing to drive to the suburbs.

Seems that many Asian cafes could use servers, and maybe some others need cooks, busboys, etc.

YoYoPedro wrote:Seems that many Asian cafes could use servers...

I think trotsky is just looking
for a place to loiter.

SCUBAchef wrote:I think trotsky is just looking for a place to loiter.

Not loiter, work

I'm guessing free WiFi would be a plus.

Searching on "boba" brought up this
(boba is just another name for
bubble tea, from what I gathered):
http://lthforum.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=9520&highlight=boba

I guess my use of the word, "work" was a bit too liberal...

Yes, a place to loiter... thanks for the reference to Boba Bee, I'll see if it's still open although Tony C really hated it. Inconsistently soaked boba is pretty disgusting and deeply disappointing -- like eating undercooked rice. I really wanted to see his pictures, hilarious comments.

from the mouth of various acquaintances that like boba (i'm rather indifferent), Saint's Alp in chinatown (next to the phoenix) is good.

north suburbs, there's a place called Liquid Fusion on sanders and milwaukee (next to a net cafe) where many students seem to frequent.

I haven't checked their fare, but there is a relatively new cafe/coffee house on the north side of Argyle just east of B'way.

there's also:

beboba
3533 N. Western, Chicago
(773) 883-2622
which btw, is packed with students from Lane Tech during school days...

for a tea house (pretty sure they don't serve boba but..) they claim themselves as the only Japanese tea house in Chicago, serving Japanese/Chinese varieties:

Nada Tea
1552 W. Fullerton Ave.
773-529-2239
(annoyingly difficult parking and often odd hours, but free wifi)

but if you want the likes of lollicup, quickly, banana boat, shau may, guppy fish, ten ren's "Tea Station" etc. you're SOL. push comes to shove, St. Alps in Chinatown is the closest thing. they even serve popcorn chicken.

SGFoxe wrote:I haven't checked their fare, but there is a relatively new cafe/coffee house on the north side of Argyle just east of B'way.

I've been there; it is a TINY, coffee/espresso-only place. Literally only 3 or 4 tables.

Chill Bubble Tea has free wi-fi with locations in Morton Grove, Chicago and very soon in Schaumburg.

Only bubble tea, no other snacks.

Regards,

^ ooo.. nice one Cathy.

except:

"At our stores, we start with raw tapioca pearls, never frozen. We boil our tapioca pearls for 2 hours, and make new batches every 15 minutes. ... Is this expensive? Very. Is it unheard of anywhere else? Absolutely...like we said, we're crazy."

qualified fibs. tapioca pearls are cheap as heck can be. minimally Ten Ren boils all of their boba fresh. this is true for the Flushing, NYC store and every Tea Station & Little Bean I've seen. ditto to the handshaken preparation method...

Weird. The Chill web site says the Bloomingdale location is "OPENING 2007", but it's been open for months now. Maybe they really want to make sure that first batch of boba is fully boiled before they let the cat out of the bag....

(It's pretty good, actually.)