Bubble Zone

I love the décor of this place. Everything here is so cute, from their plates, to their cups. There are a few dishes i highly recommend.
1) the egg pancake (i love the sauce that comes with this!)
2) fried tofu (fried to the perfection! the inside to so silky smooth, and the dipping sauce is good)
3) Ground Pork over rice (i love this dish, i always want to lick the food off this plate)
4) Spicy Tofu over rice (it’s similar to Ma –paw tofu)
I am close to trying almost every drink here. So far my fav drinks are their Plum green tea, ginger tea, and their Yogurt Snow drink. If i lived close enough to this place, i would stop by everyday to grab one of their drinks.
by the way, the parking here is not hard at all, but one major let down, is that i wish they took credit cards. Be Aware– it’s CASH ONLY!

— – June 22, 2008.
Apparently Bubble Zone didn’t pass their latest restaurant inspection. Their «business is temporarily closed» :(
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I love the tea, their grilled plates, and italian soda. My friends and I can sit for hours here late at night just sipping on the tea they serve. Their sizzling plate meals are very filling, complete with soup, salad, and a preferred sauce for your meat/​fish. The italian sodas are just plain good. The kind where you get random cravings for them in the middle of the night. Yes, one of those (:
I’ve noticed that the waitresses here are always very polite and nice. They’re very sweet and I guess trained very well.

When Bubble Zone first opened, their food was pretty good. I think I came here with my mother who lived most her life in Taiwan and said everything was authentic but a bit modified for Americans.
But through the years, I’ve noticed Bubble Zone food has steadily declined in quality. Salt Pepper Chicken used to be tasty and spiced properly. The last time I had it (a year ago), there was no pepper!
Bubble Zone is still a good place to hang out with friends late at night, though. I just make sure not to order the food and stick to the desserts, like shaved ice, and drinks, like Ginger Hot Tea.
Well geez, now I’m craving some Ginger Hot Tea.

This place has a way of making me feel way older than I am, but I must say, the way they served sago in a martini glass was very cute. Just a reminder to only get the fruits when they are in season — I made a mistake of ordering the mango one and had a sour face the rest of the night.
Oh, cute décor, too!

Such as interesting restaurant the Bubble zone is. The prices are great, the food tastes good, but it is missing one thing, actual dinners.
The Service at the bubble zone is pretty good. They check up on the table, see how everything is going, refill drinks, then leave u alone when u are eating. Also, food comes out fast, no mistakes at all, and the servers are friendly.
Now the key idea, the food: The food all tastes good and everything, and comes at a very good price, but the food isn’t rly an actual dinner. The food they serve is really snacky types of food, and not hardcore entrees that just blow your mind away with 1 taste. Although Bubble zone lacks this element, the low price and tasty food makes up for it.
I would recommend bubble zone, and take out/​eating are both effective ways of eating their food.

So, apparently they started serving grilled plates.
My mom and I decided to try it. They have a set meal where you order your meat, sauce, and choice of spaghetti or fries. Meal comes with soup and salad too.
I ordered the steak with mushroom sauce and spaghetti.
First came the soup, pretty good start. It was creamy vegetable chowder with corn. I really liked it. Salad was your standard chinese-​american salad with iceberg and thousand island dressing. Not bad.
Next was the spaghetti. I was getting excited about my meal, because the spaghetti was jammin. A little sweet, yes, that’s chinese style spaghetti.
Then the entrée came. Oh geez. WHERE’S THE BEEF??? I looked at my steak and it was as thin as a piece of paper, and the mushroom sauce, I could count the mushrooms i had on my plate, it was ONE.
My mom got the chicken with black pepper sauce. That was a little better. But not by much.
Oh, and they ran out of red bean dessert too.
Basically, i’m not comin back.
Their spaghetti wasn’t that good.

Stopped by this cute little place today after a long walk through Land’s End. Only had dessert here; I was a little disappointed that they were «out» of several menu items and that it was not clearly indicated on the menu. For instance, they were out of the Mumo Cha Cha and fruit crepes.
However, I still enjoyed the place. It’s different from most other places that serve boba – you can eat full meals here, too. Their ice cream crêpe was tasty, came with a little pirouline (?) cookie stick and was drizzled in coffee chocolate syrup. Bubble tea was also tasty, although mine tasted like it was a mix of flower and milk in the tea. Hmm!
I do want to come back to this place in the future though. They only accept cash here, so be sure to bring cash and not your card. Prices are all very reasonable.
P. S. I would also like to add that it was rather random/​surprising (in a good way) that they had some Jpop videos playing in the background. Rock on!

I came here pretty often till I went to Southern California and friend of mine took me this Taiwanese Restaurant (excellent unfortunately I forgot the name of the place). This place is a poser =x … I hate to say it since I’ve been coming here so often haha. But found out recently that they’re closed? What happened?!

Right when I heard the name of the place, «Bubble Zone,» I should of known this was going to be a dining disaster!
I have NEVER had spicy wontons where they use dumplings instead of small wontons. I think I ordered spicy wontons, not SPICY DUMPLINGS!
This place deserves 0 star’s, cause they serve crap! Stick to just serving tea and stop serving bad Taiwanese food. The only thing Taiwanese thing about this place are the music video’s they play.
So sad, TRASH!

HUGE disappointment
The spicy wontons… ARE NOT what they’re supposed to be, and everything was just all bad at this place. Pickled cucumbers… huuuuuuuuuuuuuge disappointment. It was shredded cucumbers with salt. WTH!
«A place that’s trying to serve Taiwanese food but isn’t” — SKP
NEVER EVER EVVVVVVVVER coming back here again

Good food selection for a café. Was tempted to order more food just so I could try more then two things! Beef noodles soup was very flavourful, tho a little heavy on the beef fat, but they do say fat is flavour (once in a while wont hurt!) The Oyster with Taiwan noodle soup was thick and homey– was very very hot! still warm after I took the leftovers home– I couldnt finish it because it was so hot!
The snacks and appetizers looked good– got to come back to try more! Not too much distraction which was good– having more than one big TV screen showing pop videos with blaring music can be much. It was pleasant environment– people were reading or talking– very cosy. Had to take a star away as the wait staff seemed more pre-​occupied with reading /​playing with cell phone than to check on anyone else, which is a shame.
Will try the bubble tea next time, but i didnt see any one ordering any, wait, a couple came in for two to take out… but I think they did so just to use the restroom…

This is my late night go to place (on Clement St. between 12Th and Park Presidio) when I’m craving some milk tea tapioca and noodles. The chow mien here is surprisingly good especially since they add shitake mushrooms to it. I have been going here for the past two years with friends who like me have insomnia and can’t sleep and just need a place to hang out and chat late night since on weekends it stays open till 1am. The service isn’t all that great which would be my first complaint and my second is that they take only cash, other than other that the food is pretty cheap and it’s open pretty late. They also have two flat screen TVs on which they play HK music video’s so you’ve got something to watch while you sip you’re pearl drinks.

After being told about Bubble zone by Lolia S, I finally got a chance to drop by earlier today and sample their pearl tea. Luckily, unlike Lolia S, when I arrrived, they were not out of tapioca. I enjoyed the pearl tea but found it pretty average. It wasn’t too sweet, which is good, but the pearl balls consistency was on the soggy side.
The name of the restaurant implies a classic pearl tea café, but Bubble zone is really more of a restaurant that happens to serve pearl tea. I didn’t sample any of their food, and it was deathly quiet at lunch time on a weekday. I suspect this place — like every place on Clement — gets mobbed on weekends, however.
Bubble zone is located close to the «end» of Clement street, near Park Presidio Drive. If you know this stretch, you know then that the main mess of excellent sticky-​table establishments are located more in the center of Clement st., say, around 5−10^th st., or thereabouts. As a result, Bubble Zone feels a little detached from the main drag.
I will be back at some point to try their non pearl tea cuisine, and re-​sample the pearl tea.

I’ve always thought of Bubble Zone as a pearl tea place. Imagine my surprise (and even outrage) when I stopped by for a tapioca drink only to be told that they didn’t have any tapioca (it was still cooking). It was Saturday afternoon at a PT place. There’s no excuse for not having cooked tapioca on hand. I deducted a star for not having tapioca when I first stopped by. You’re called Bubble Zone, so you’d better have bubbles/​pearls/​boba all the time!
The red bean tapioca drink was pretty good. The pearls were fresh and chewy though still not as good as Eggettes. They used real beans in the drink though I like mine with more beans. The drink wasn’t too sweet and didn’t have too much ice. They also give you plenty of pearls, so the drink is very filling. It was $ 4 for some reason, which is the most expensive one I’ve had in SF. Ice House used to have the best red bean PT, much better than Bubble Zone’s (more red beans) but it is no longer in business.
The large menu of Taiwanese dishes looked interesting (and authentic) and the place looks more like a restaurant than a pearl tea shop. Cash only.

Great restaurant with kool set ups. But ever since they changed the owner the service has been going down! the girlw orking there has the worse service attitude and drinks are worse than ever! I agree with Mia K that they kept playing the same dvd over and over again! the new owner is too lazy to find new stuff I guess. Still akool place to hang out but they can improve a lot!

This is one place that I don’t go to for the boba. Don’t get me wrong, their boba is good — it’s just not what draws me to this place. I love their food!
They have awesome spicy steamed dumplings that comes out in a bowl with a wonderful spicy hot oil sauce. I also enjoy their soy sauce egg and egg pancake. Both are served with this breath destroying garlic sauce. The sauce is totally oralgasmic, but seriously leaves you with a bad case of the dragon breathitis.
Plus, they stay open late and play lots of Jay Chou DVD’s! What more can you ask for?!

It’s authentic but it’s not. The kind of place you wish was open at 3 a.m. because it’s pretty reasonable. I get antsy though when i hang out in a place and see 2 couples walk and play hearts for over 2 hours. I am not hating but I wanted to scream, «GET A ROOM!!!»
I do think though that I may have to consider holding a poker tourney here. They have beer, food, cute waitresses and don’t care if you order a cup of coffee and hang out for 2 hours.

One of my roomies and I went here for dinner one night. He knows the owner from college. The service was excellent as it should when you know the owner. The food was especially prepared by said owner.
Aside from the biased review, the place had an Arnold’s Drive Inn from Happy Days in a Y2K AZN flavor kind of feel.

Cute, very ‘HK’ place! Good atmosphere to go with your friends and hang out. They play HK music and music videos. They have a small oxygen bar, and cards for you to play with.
They serve small plates of food, serve flavored soju, have interesting flavors of boba, and shaved ice deserts. My favorite desert is the shaved ice with sticky rice balls, lychee, pineapple, and lots of condensed milk!
On the weekends (fri, sat) I think they open until 1 am. Fun place to go if you want somewhere to hang out late nights.

Been there three times, at around the same time. (10−11PM «ish».)
(+) Good selection of tapioca drinks until late at night…
(+) The MAGAZINES! I could pore over those Japanese magazines for hours, for more shopping inspiration and fodder…
(+) Service is polite and kind. Sometimes I think they give me the same drink as my DH even though we asked for different things, though…
(-) Why do they play the same DVD/​Music video over and over again? I *know* there has *got* to be a better pool of music videos to show… right? The tunes are pretty catchy, though, I admit it (I have no idea what they are saying, but what the heck.)
(-) Kinda dark…
(-) Only open @ night, not in the early afternoons.