Spa Chi

I love this place. Awesome bubble tea and delicious food.
The only thing I am disappointed in is that they cut off a lot of their menu —
But the food is still amazing and it’s my go to place for yummy food.

Be aware that wait times for your food can go over half an hour. The staff will give you a warning in advance.

Very good food. I wouldn’t know authentic Taiwanese food from fake but I do know good food from bad — and this is definitely good food. I got the beef noodle soup and the wife got the beef udon. Both were very good soups. The red chili wontons are excellent! We only found this place by accident a couple weeks ago and have been here about five times now. I’m just trying not to burn myself out on the food! :)
Okay, after several more weeks of eating here a couple times per week, I still haven’t burned myself out and so far I love everything. My go to is usuall the beef noodle soup with the red chili wontons, but I do really like the sesame cucumbers.mmm. tasty. Also, the wonton soup is very mellow. And they’ve been consistent enough that I’m finally giving them my fifth star.
As far as price goes, it’s not bad. The soups range from about $ 7 to $ 11 depending on the soup and the sides (red chili wontons or sesame cucumber) are about $ 5 — $ 6.

It’s good and fast Asian flair — mainly Taiwanese influenced. Great for a quick lunch. Love the koi garden outside! The beef noodle soup is my favorite — very traditional and authentic tasting.

Do not come here. Overpriced milk tea. Unauthentic. Bad food. Owner changed hand and everything became A LOT worse.

I traveled a lot, and I ate lots of local foods. This restaurant is specialized in Taiwanese foods and Korean. Taiwan foods are NOT like Chinese and much more fresh taste than oily taste of normal Chinese, especially Shanghai and Beijing ones. Taiwanese foods are one of the best around Greater Seattle area. I recently found Chi has new Korean menu — Bibimbop. I just say «WOW». Bibimbop looks like easy to cook, serve, and eat but in fact to generate the deep taste of raw materials, it is the food that cook needs thousands of hands to make. Unfortunately I believed I won’t taste the wonderful Bibimbop out of Korea, HOWEVER, I ate the right one in here. And price is SUPER-​Angel and Taste is the best.
Please try this. You will really love here.

最差的服务！They changed the owner and now Gives horrible customer service — simply the worst I’ve ever encountered. Stand in line for 15 minutes before got served, waited for another 45 minutes without getting served. The servers pretended to not hear my ask, and eventually I asked to cancel my order and get refund, however didn’t get a full refund probably because they don’t have the change. Will never come back. 换老板了，现在服务很差，等一个小时不上菜，告诉服务员一会儿有急事也没用，服务员根本不关心你感受怎么样，直接选择不理你。最后无奈只有不吃了选择退款，服务员好像也无所谓，没有诚挚的歉意，说他们不是老板，有事上网投诉。最后我等了一个多小时，没吃到饭，也没拿到全额退款（被服务员四舍五入了）。下午有急事无暇争吵走人。最差的用户体验，在并不注重服务的国内，即使再破的馆子再差的服务员，也没有出现过收了钱就不理顾客的情况，国内再二流子的服务员在这种情况下也知道是自己理亏的，至少会给退全款态度好一点让你消消气。无法理解这样差服务的餐馆能在美国存活

This is a great place to get pampered! Catherine is the sweetest and I highly recommend her facials. I go to Trinh for detox massage as well as manis & pedis. The café serves delicious Asian food and when the weather is warm it’s a lovely, relaxing place to have bubble tea next to the koi pond.

I felt very excited when I discovered this place on the way go to my friend’s house in Issaquah. This is a small Taiwanese restaurant that has Taiwanese food and bubble tea. I was attracted by the little garden outdoor in front of the restaurant. I have to say that was really beautiful. I especially like the koi fish pond here. It was made by many stones that were stacked up together. It was small but really cute with koi fish and lotus in there. Beside the fish pond, they also put some tables and chairs in the garden.
The inside had an Asian atmosphere with decorations according to the Chinese style. They designed the menu that looked very special and creative. It was some food’s pictures that were hung on a rope above the front desk and some were stuck on the board next to the door. They also had cakes, pies, juices and some desserts that were put in a glass case. I like the way they served here. They were very friendly and always had a smile.
The Taiwanese food was really yummy. My favorite is the beef noodle soup, beef roll and red oil wonton. The beef noodle was a bowl that had noodle, vegetable and soup, and a different plate that had beef, tofu, sauce and some vegetables that were pickle but I didn’t know its name. I liked to put everything in my bowl that made all the flavors can be mixed together. The beef roll also made me feel happy with its taste. The layer of flour was fired very crumbly outside, but moist with beef and vegetable inside. The roll wonton had a flavor I like. It was hot and spicy but really terrific. They rolled the wontons with pork inside and put in a bowl with red oil and vegetable on it. Just looking was enough to make me feel joyful.
I also loved the bubble tea here that was blended and mixed really well and looked nice. I like the black milk tea best. It was a mixture of milk, black tea and brown sugar with soft and chewy tapioca. Its taste was really amazing. But you should tell them how much sugar you want when you order the bubble tea because sometimes they make it too sweet.
I really love this place. But it’s a little bit far from my house, so I just come here when I have free time. I really like to have a lunch in the garden, so I’m waiting for summer to sit and eat outside on a warm day. It will be perfect.

Horrible! Never returning! The website posts 10 – 8 but the sign on the door says 10 – 6, no menu in hand because you have to look up above the cashier for the menu (& the hostess didn’t know wut I was ordering when I read it off the menu), self serve water (never seen that @ a restaurant), they brought wrong food out to us (but good thing on their part there wasn’t a charge), they forgot about my food, they never came to check on us, food was tasteless & my sister had to get her on to go box!

Spa:
Nail spa is very good — attention to detail is the norm, and everyone’s very cordial. I get regular manicures and pedicures and my nail color and shape always come up perfect.
You can request an appointment via their website, call or walk-​in, but I would recommend making an appointment.
Restaurant:
This is a great little location for lunch and snacks. Good selection of teas, hot or cold. My favorite is iced boba tea. Food is tasty, and authentic. They have two seating areas, and when it’s sunny you can sit outside and admire the pond.
Parking:
On street or parking lot.

We here for dinner, but It’s really a place to get lunch or a snack on. As most dishes we ate were all pre made and then heated up. So you can tell it’s not made fresh.
It’s set up like a take out/​fast food place where you order, pay and the food is brought out to you.
Wish our smoothie drinks came out first but it came last made it more a dessert than a drink. Only the drinks tastes fresh out of the whole meal. Everything else was meh. Maybe because I was comparing to DTF and FE.

This is probably my favorite restaurant in downtown Issaquah. Love the outdoor seating and will be sad when the weather turns cold and I won’t be able to sit by the mini waterfall and eat my amazing Taiwanese lunch. Meals are perfectly balanced with delicious protein, veggies, and rice or noodles, and I feel great and energized after eating there. A perfect spa lunch! Now I just need to try the spa…
Café Chi may become my new regular spot in Issaquah. Can’t wait to eat there again tomorrow!

This is a review for the SPA portion of Spa Chi. The café is actually called Café Chi but everybody is reviewing it here. Anyway, we went for a girls day and the atmosphere is very nice. The pedicure chairs are not typical, just cushions. The foot tubs are neat black stone boxes with Asian writing on it. Rocks In the bottom of the tub too! Sooooo…$ 45 for a typical pedicure was overpriced. Slightly painful. Only 3 chairs and they’re quick to rush you out if they have somebody waiting. I don’t think will be back for that price.

Arguably the best boba tea on the Eastside. The Plum Green Team has real plum in it and appear to be brewed from real tea leaves. The texture of the boba is not too hard and is chewy as it should be.
I also order the minced pork rice noodle soup. The flavor was decent but drinking the soup made me thirsty (sign of MSG?) so that was not a highlight. But the tea alone totally redeemed the experience for me. I would come again just for the boba.

What a pleasant surprise in my own backyard! I was looking for a new nail place and started reading the reviews on the food at Spa Chi. It was exactly as described by so many patrons. I sat outside in the beautiful garden and enjoyed a very nice lunch. The cucumber salad was amazing! I’m not familiar with this type of food but I can tell you it was fresh and fabulous. Staff was helpful and very friendly. The only reason I rated 4 stars is that I would rather have a more organized menu, not just the photos on the wall and I was told the drink prices were not correct as they had not been updated since the opening about 5 years ago. A nice place to be on a sunny afternoon!

I only ate there and the Taiwanese food is the best I’ve had in America. The beef wraps were small but phenomenal and the wanton soup blows away Din Tai Fung. The Lemongrass pork was good but not as amazing as the other food we ordered.
Unfortunately the tiny kitchen means they can only cook one item at a time so expect 15 minutes wait for each order and food will come out one at a time. This meant an hour wait from an overwhelmed staff.
Your patience is rewarded with great food! 5 star food, 0.5 star service.

This is the best Taiwanese food that we’ve had. Spa Chi is a little serene spot in what has become a too bustling Issaquah. It is a day spa with a restaurant within its walls. It has a very peaceful courtyard for outdoor dining on nice days, or the indoor seating is in two small, tastefully decorated rooms.
The Beef Noodle Soup was wonderful. The broth had a deep, earthy, mushroomy taste, along with which came the noodles and baby bok choy. On the side dish was tofu, braised beef, pickled vegetables and a spicy sauce. The beef was especially tender, moist, and flavorful.
Crispy Chicken with Rice was a great combination of tastes. The chicken was tender and moist, with a crisp and delicious coating. The rice came with ground pork on top that made it oh so good. A boiled egg, pickled vegetables, and sauteed napa cabbage completed the plate.
There is so much more there that we want to try that we will be returning often. Our only complaint is that the menu is a set of pictures up on a wall where only one customer can see it at a time, and they are in the way of servers trying to go in and out of the kitchen.

I came here for the food with a couple girl friends after a short hike at Twin Falls.
We ordered a ton and EVERYTHING WAS YUMMY!
–Black sesame shake
–Match Green Tea Latte shake
–Crispy Chicken (I think it was called)
–Minced Pork over Rice
And a couple other items I can’t remember…
We ate outside on a sunny day with my two little dogs and it was perfect! So calming with the pretty scenery and the food definitely hit the spot!

I was surprised to find a place like this in Sammamish. I wasn’t familiar with the area and thought any Asian restaurant here would serve some kind of Americanized version of Asian food. Café Chi is legit!
From the entrance to the adorable furniture inside, it’s a very cute place attached to an Asian Spa.
I had the fish ball soup and the fried chicken. Both were good. But Café Chi gets the seal of approval based on their bubble drinks. I hate it when bubble tea places use the powder flavors. The passion fruit bubble tea I had at Café Chi was the real deal.
Try it out if you are in the area.

I love this place. They made their food fresh, only when you order them. We had beef noodle soup and won ton soup. Both were delicious. The bonus part of the place is their boba. They are sweet, soft and chewy.

Stopped in for quick bite on a Sat. Nice gem of asian café hidden in back street off front. Walking distance to community center. Ordered Veggie Noodle Soup and HK milk tea W no bobba. $ 13 bill. My noodle soup was tasty, but hard to judge broth and richness from a veggie bowl. Will try a meat base soup instead next Time. Drink was also good.

Since moving to Issaquah, I was happy to have found this place! They have really good bubble tea, and their tapioca is chewy and sweet. I’ve tried a variety of their drinks, from the green tea, lychee, and the regular milk tea. I would say my favorite is the regular milk tea. The milk tea isn’t that sweet, but mixed with the sweetened tapioca, it gives a good balance. Also, their tapioca is so good-I’ve never had bad tapioca before. It’s always been sweet and chewy. Sometimes they do run out towards the end of the day :(so try to get there early. I haven’t tried any of their food, but when I came in this afternoon, it was packed with people eating lunch. Will have to come back and try the food sometime soon. Their «food menu» is a wall of pictures next to the cashier. Also, outside, they have a zen like garden, so it’s nice if you want to sit outside during the spring or summer and have a relaxing lunch.

This was my first foray into authentic Taiwanese Cuisine, and I will say it sure took long enough. Should have done this long ago!
Got curious about trying Taiwanese Beef Noodle Soup after reading various yummy-​sounding recipes for it online, so when I found out there was this cute little Café serving authentic Taiwanese Noodle Soup right in the vicinity of our gym, it was decided!
Ordered the Beef Noodle Soup, Taro Cake, and Wonton Noodle Soup. All were very good in flavor, consistency, portion, and satisfaction. Easily agreed with my stomach, which in itself made this place a great hit!
Friendly staff, quaint environment, and amazingly good food for a place that looks more like a coffee house than a restaurant.
After reading the other reviews, think it may be time to try their milk tea lol.
I used to think Chinese food wasn’t very good, but perhaps it’s because I was eating the wrong kind. Taiwanese food is a different story altogether. Will definitely be back!

I still like Café Chi. When I’m craving noodles and soup, I come here for a visit. As stated in previous reviews, the broth is very lightly flavored. My husband enjoys it because he says it doesn’t taste like it has a lot of salt — sometimes he’s a salt nazi. I do like my noodles a little more flavorful, so I always ask for extra chili sauce. Their chili sauce tastes homemade (i’m not sure if it is), but it’s excellent and gives the soup an extra zing that it needs.
I have eaten the dumplings, the beef noodle soup, won ton mein, and the seafood soup. Depending on my mood, I would definitely order them again.
I enjoy their bubble tea here and, sometimes, we come just for a bubble honey green tea.
They’re very kid-​friendly and have little books for kids to read. The women here are helpful and friendly.
I’ll probably have to go back soon. My husband said he has a Café Chi Craving. :)

The cutest little café in the middle of nowhere in Issaquah. It has a nice peaceful zen feel to it. So far good has been delicious and the staff were nice and courteous. The wait was a little long, but food made up for the waitn it was fresh and had beautiful presentation. Prices are excellent too. Can’t comment on the spa part of this establishment, but the café is definitely a hit!

Came with a group of 5 on a slow day… the food came out one by one probably 7 to 10 min apart so don’t wait till the last dish. They don’t have menus so you just order up front looking at pictures.
As far as the café outside is beautiful with a little pond and mini waterfall. Very peaceful and the inside is more like a mom and pop joint with decorations.
I ordered the beef noodle which they said was their most popular dish. The dish was too authentic tasting for me so didn’t enjoy it as much.
My wife got the udon and milk tea and both were good. Seems like they use fresh ingredients and put care to each dish.
I would probably not come here again unless we had guest craving taiwanese food.

Quiet little place with an outdoor patio and a fish pond. There’s also a spa next door and I think the set up is a totally perfect place for an afternoon getaway.
The menu were photos of the food stuck to the wall and you order at the register. I really wanted to try the beef noodle soup but they were out. I decided on the braised pork over rice and a crispy flour wrap with egg and pork sung.
Food was overall pretty good. Slightly on the higher price point but you are paying for the environment as well. The original milk tea wasn’t bad but wish it was stronger in tea flavor. It was a bit watered down today so I’ll have to come back to try it again.

This place is such a tease! Last time I went there I was craving the mango snow dessert and the small sausage wrapped inside a big sausage dish (yeah, that’s the literal translation in Chinese — don’t judge). Unfortunately, they ran out of both! So instead, we got a passion fruit/​mango bubble tea and a red bean shaved ice dessert to share. The red bean shaved ice was alright — I kind of wish there were more types of beans in it in addition to having grass jelly. The bubble tea, on the other hand, did not taste like bubble tea. It was like juice. And they ran out of tapioca, so I opted for the jelly instead.
I decreased this rating to 4 stars but will bump it back up after I go there again and the foods I want are actually there! The pork chop rice and beef noodle soup I had the time before, so I will give this place another chance. If only it would stop being such a tease!!!

We got lucky and went during a slow day. The food we tried so far was excellent. I can’t believe this place is in Issaquah and not Monterey Park.
We’ll be visiting frequently.

Came here in the middle afternoon to try the so called «best» bubble tea in WA. Honestly, I was quite disappointed. Both for the taste of the bubble tea and for the speed of service. I’d say it’s just a normal level in terms of taste. Sweet and instant made bubble tea.
I was quite surprised that such normal level bubble tea would take more than half an hour waiting on average. We tried some small dishes, popcorn chicken was really good. Small sausage in a big sausage was average.

We met some friends here for lunch and it was a different experience. There is no «menu», but a bunch of pictures of items on the wall. I like that — it reminds me of some of my favorite hole in the wall places in Chicago. I was disappointed that I pointed to a picture of a bubble tea drink (plum black tea with lychee popping boba and regular boba, and the drink that they gave me had lychee jelly instead of lychee popping boba. I asked them what happened to the popping boba, and they said they were out (or at least I think that is what they said, as half of the explanation was in Chinese, which I do not understand.) I wish they had told me that when I ordered, because I would have just ordered the regular boba instead of splitting it with lychee jelly. I thought that their udon soup was good, although the broth was a little underseasoned, although not as plain as the ramen broth.
Parking is pretty easy on the street, which was difficult at first for me to see, because there is no «sidewalk» per se — it is just flat, unpaved road, and so you have to give some room for people to walk on, and park out a little further.

This is a very «homey» restaurant since you can tell it was converted from an actual house into two separate businesses. One being the restaurant and the other of a nail salon spa. It has a nice koi pond in the back plus it was very serene with the overall landscaping of the place. You can tell this is a family business right from the get go with the simple signage for the menu right when you walk in. They have little pictures of the entrée items and a simple word description of what they are tacked on the wall.
The menu isn’t very large on selections since they want to keep it simple and fresh. I had the Wonton noodle soup that day and it was great with all the fresh ingredients. The soup base was terrific with no MSG added and wasn’t too salty at all.
It took a little while for the food to come since it is made to order which can take awhile, but I have no complaints if it tastes like homemade!
Great little place with good price point to match!