Hap Chan tea house.

  The first time I have been to Hap Chan tea house was with my friends, that time I was still a freshman here in the Manila, Philippines. It was located in SM Manila, ermita street,but after that I noticed there are a lot of other branches of Hap Chan tea house, as I know, there is one located in Sta Cruz, and the other one is located in SM San lazaro and some other branches are located in Makati city and Quezon city.

  In the beginning I thought the Hap Chan tea house was build by someone from Hong Kong China, and does not have a long history, but after I checked the information from google ,I found out Hap Chan was starting from 1997.It was starting out in 1997 as a small teahouse in Manila, and serving only the Filipino-Chinese favorites Mami, lugao and dimsum, Hap Chan Teahouse began franchising in 1999 through Hap Chan Trading and Management Corporation. Hap Chan teahouse has slowly grown its menu and established fifteen stores by year 2009.
  On September 2009, a new group of entrepreneurs joined the management to improve its commissary and restaurant operations by introducing new methods to ensure Hap Chan restaurants remain in the forefront of its kind in the food service industry.The company started its aggressive expansion in 2010, from fifteen , it continuously grow its business as far as Boracay, Palawan, Gen. Santos and Cauayan Isabela. To date, there are a total of forty five branches nationwide of the Philippines.

  According to my perception, I think the food there in Hap Chan is not that cheap, but still okay for group eating. When I went there, it seems like the tea house is not a big restaurant, I sit down on the chairs , the waitress then greetedme and gave the menu to me, while I was choosing the food which I would like to order, the waitress served us a pot of hot red tea and several cups and several glasses of ice water. Then she clean up the redundant folks and spoons, and get ready for the ordering. I ordered Yangzhou Chaofan and radish cake and my friends ordered Beef chao hofan and wanton noodle, shrimp siomai and chicken feet. During the ordering, the waitress reminded us that the foof is good for how many people,and after the ordering, the waitress repeated our orders again then went to the cooking room.

  Just in fifteen minutes, the orders were served quickly and accurate. While the waitress decide to leave and approach to other customers, my friends suddenly called her and asked the menu again, he told me that he wanted to order some drinks instead of drinking the hot tea. He asked the waitress if there is fresh soya milk available and the waitress went to confirm the request in front of the cashier, then she told us there is fresh soya milk available. My friends ordered it and told me the soya milk is very special as well here in Hap Chan, especially the soya milk is very much in demand.

  While we are eating the foods, I found out it could be much more delicious if put some chili sauce on the top of the fried rice , the chili sauce including much oil and beans, tasted good and hot. It is not only smelled good for a hot sauce ,but also facilitate my hungry feeling to let me eat more. After the fresh soya milk served by the waitress, we put it them into the glass ,it tasted cool and had a thick flavor of soya with milk tastes. In China, especially the northern mainland of China, people are the fans of soya bean milk, we prefer to have it during the breakfast but it is hot served not like the soya milk here in the Philippines, it is cold served. So that was my first time had a cooling soya milk.
  We asked the waitress for billing out, and pay for it, the waitress went to the cshier and got a check folder with our billing receipt, it is also accept debit card and credit card. The waitesses said thank you and come again. The whole experiences made us satisfied. After that time, I have been to Hap Chan alone for several times, their business always popular and the restaurant always full of people.