Thank goodness I found this on yelp! I regularly bought the salad packages at Berkeley Bowl, but now that I can buy the fermented tea leaves (la phet) and packets of peanuts, seeds, and fried beans and shallots, I can customize my own salad to meet my own needs! Bought too much kale? That's now a tea leaf salad! Have some avocado on its last legs? That now goes in tea leaf salad! You get the idea. And, as others have mentioned, buying the jars of tea leaves and making your own salad cuts waaaaay down on the plastic waste.
Serena Meyer
You just have to know what you're doing, call ahead let them know the day before so they can have some extra salads made for you. This is not a sit-down cafe this is the name of the business. They are located on San Pablo, there is street parking, you can knock on the door but if you actually want to reach the fellow you need to call him. I got the impression that he stayed a couple blocks away and he just drives over to meet me there and I get like eight salads at a time from him and stock my fridge. Right now they are $5 a pop and $10 in the store. You can figure out for yourself if that's a good deal
Antoinette Czerwinski
I've been buying and enjoying your Burmese Tea Salad at Berkeley Bowl until recently. The last two salads that I bought were so hot that they were almost inedible. The last time I bought the salad, I thought it was just that someone didn't mix the ingredients very well, but this time the salad was even hotter. When you first had your salad at Berkeley Bowl, we were regular buyers, not any more. You've lost a regular customer.
Adilyne M.
Their tea leaf salad is one of the best I have ever had! So fresh and bursting with flavor. It seems like such a simple salad but once you taste it there is no going back.
Kai T.
I wish you'd deliver either a lot more of the ginger tea salads or deliver a lot more often since my Safeway/Andronicos is always running out before I can get there! I live on this salad, even like how they've streamlined the lime-fish sauce so the jalapenos are little chips distributing their goodness in the sauce. Please please please, if you read this Cafe Karla, I need your salads in more places and in sufficient quantity so when i do my weekly shopping, I can almost be guaranteed to score a couple boxes (it's rude of me to eat my salad when my significant other doesn't get one) every time I go to the store.
Hannah P.
So so so delicious. Cannot recommend enough. I honestly drive to Berkeley from the Peninsula just to get some. Obviously, fermented tea leaves aren't everyone's cup of tea (ha) but if you enjoy fermented foods and garlicky foods Cafe Karla will hit the spot every time. Update: I went again with my mother and even though she asked too many questions everyone was really nice and helpful :)
Jocelyn Bergman
These salads are stocked at my local grocery store. I have been buying the tea leaf salad whenever I see them, a few at a time since my household loves them so much. I love the freshness of the ingredients & the flavors are on point! On days when my store doesn't have any, I am definitely disappointed!! Would love to purchase some of the tea leaf dressing too!! It's DIVINE!!! 5 Stars!
Thank goodness I found this on yelp! I regularly bought the salad packages at Berkeley Bowl, but now that I can buy the fermented tea leaves (la phet) and packets of peanuts, seeds, and fried beans and shallots, I can customize my own salad to meet my own needs! Bought too much kale? That's now a tea leaf salad! Have some avocado on its last legs? That now goes in tea leaf salad! You get the idea. And, as others have mentioned, buying the jars of tea leaves and making your own salad cuts waaaaay down on the plastic waste.
You just have to know what you're doing, call ahead let them know the day before so they can have some extra salads made for you. This is not a sit-down cafe this is the name of the business. They are located on San Pablo, there is street parking, you can knock on the door but if you actually want to reach the fellow you need to call him. I got the impression that he stayed a couple blocks away and he just drives over to meet me there and I get like eight salads at a time from him and stock my fridge. Right now they are $5 a pop and $10 in the store. You can figure out for yourself if that's a good deal
I've been buying and enjoying your Burmese Tea Salad at Berkeley Bowl until recently. The last two salads that I bought were so hot that they were almost inedible. The last time I bought the salad, I thought it was just that someone didn't mix the ingredients very well, but this time the salad was even hotter. When you first had your salad at Berkeley Bowl, we were regular buyers, not any more. You've lost a regular customer.
Their tea leaf salad is one of the best I have ever had! So fresh and bursting with flavor. It seems like such a simple salad but once you taste it there is no going back.
I wish you'd deliver either a lot more of the ginger tea salads or deliver a lot more often since my Safeway/Andronicos is always running out before I can get there! I live on this salad, even like how they've streamlined the lime-fish sauce so the jalapenos are little chips distributing their goodness in the sauce. Please please please, if you read this Cafe Karla, I need your salads in more places and in sufficient quantity so when i do my weekly shopping, I can almost be guaranteed to score a couple boxes (it's rude of me to eat my salad when my significant other doesn't get one) every time I go to the store.
So so so delicious. Cannot recommend enough. I honestly drive to Berkeley from the Peninsula just to get some. Obviously, fermented tea leaves aren't everyone's cup of tea (ha) but if you enjoy fermented foods and garlicky foods Cafe Karla will hit the spot every time. Update: I went again with my mother and even though she asked too many questions everyone was really nice and helpful :)
These salads are stocked at my local grocery store. I have been buying the tea leaf salad whenever I see them, a few at a time since my household loves them so much. I love the freshness of the ingredients & the flavors are on point! On days when my store doesn't have any, I am definitely disappointed!! Would love to purchase some of the tea leaf dressing too!! It's DIVINE!!! 5 Stars!
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