Basil popcorn chicken and honey peach bubble tea at new cafe coming to Keizer
Emily TeelT4 Tea House, a new Taiwanese tea cafe, is heading for Keizer Station.
The cafe is under construction at 6395 Keizer Station Boulevard #104 and owners Michelle Wong and Dicky Chan plan to open in early September. In June the couple opened another T4 Tea House location in Clackamas. That same month another location under different ownership opened in Beaverton. Once open, the Keizer location will offer a similar menu and experience as these existing locations.
T4 Tea Houses serve bubble tea beverages. The company sources oolong and green tea from Taiwan and brews it to precise temperature specifications. They combine these teas with milk, frozen fruit and toppings to create a rainbow of different beverage options: caramel milk tea, fresh lime green tea, a royal rose tea, honey peach tea and many more.
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In addition to tea beverages, expect a menu of savory snacks heavy on the fried goodies. T4's most popular dish is popcorn chicken with crispy leaves of fried basil, and the cafe will also offer fries, potstickers and "egg puff" bubble waffles.
T4 is a bubble tea franchise founded in Taiwan in 2004. Now the brand has more than a dozen franchise locations in California and is expanding globally. Wong and Chan's Clackamas location represents the second in Oregon and Keizer will be the third.
Emily Teel is the Food & Drink Editor at the Statesman Journal. Contact her at eteel@statesmanjournal.com, Facebook, or Twitter. See what she's cooking and where she's eating this week on Instagram: @emily_teel