Meet Fresh, Arcadia CA

The Arcadia store is awesome! I did not have to wait in line. The services staff were friendly and helpful. I requested my order customized to the way I like it and they had no problem with that. My red bean soup came out HOT! I love it.

Quality of food is not as good as I remembered ~3 years ago! Still taste good but can be better looking. Would appreciate dine-in bowls if the environment is nicer.

The Taiwanese dessert mochi was very soft, chewy, and delicious. I was surprised at how soft the mochi itself was even though it had cooled down. There is shaved ice under the mochi, and is it sugar water and brown sugar? It's slightly sweet and delicious! The sweetness was really modest and it was the perfect dessert for someone like me who doesn't like too much sweetness. Mango shaved ice is quite sweet and creamy.

The line is long, the tables are dirty, and the food is presented with no care whatsoever, just toppings plopped into soup. It's a very sad and unexpected moment when you open the lid to your hot soup dessert and find it looking nothing like the images on the menu. We pushed all the toppings together and lifted them up to get a decent photo. Would not come back.

Got the Ice Grass Jelly B. I like the genorous amount of toppings that they give. While the toppings are pretty good I wished they would also balance between the amount of shaved ice vs toppings. There seemed to bit little bits of shaved ice buried inside the dessert but not enough to cool off from the summer heat. If there was also the same amount of shaved ice as there are toppings this would be 5/5. I guess will have to try their shaved ice options next time to compare. This comes with grass jelly, boba, red beans and taro

Almost impossible to pass by during the summer months. Menu combos are very high in calories, better for sharing and trying different toppings. But I prefer “Make your own”. Medium size is more than enough for one person, plus you can choose exactly what you want from toppings menu (for some reason they stopped doing complete “make your own” and you’ll get taro ball or grass jelly no matter what, but the rest is up to you). Also I usually ask for condensed milk on the side, this way you can add as much or as little as you want and keep your ice from melting too early.

Meet Fresh is great but it is so different I'm almost at a loss for words to describe it. In short, it was supper delicious! My grandsons devoured three of the green tea pineapple floats. Highly recommended by the whole family.

It’s pretty good. It’s not overly sweet and the boba is nice and chewy. Service was nice and fast. A little overpriced but not bad. Refreshing drink

This Meet Fresh location was incredibly disappointing. The shaved ice portion sizes were super small, especially compared to other locations. We paid $14 for a 3” tall cup with two small (rock hard) ice chunks and toppings. You could barely even call this shaved ice. Then - to make things worse - the employees left the shaved ice sitting on the counter for 20 minutes and didn’t call our number or anything to announce it, despite us sitting right in front of the counter, and when we asked if it was our order they said “Oh yeah…. It’s been sitting there for a while so it’s probably melted. ” The only saving grace is that the shaved ice did taste really good, but the experience was just awful.

I waited 15 minutes in line, another 5 minutes because the cashier was busy in the back assisting with the drinks. After she came back I asked for the original egg waffle, then was told they stop making it after 7pm. Seriously, I waited 20 minutes for this response. Why don’t you guys post that somewhere on the menu? My toddler was disappointed. I’m never coming back here again.

What do I wear, let's see what I wear, what do I wear. No better than I need. Because I could take everything!

Love the drink and the egg waffle (weekday only). Busy during weekends but more free on weekdays. Happy to see the dine-in option be back to the store after the COVID. The newly release drinks and collaboration with Michelin Chef are all good in taste. One other thing to mention that there is no restroom inside store but have to go to the mall for restroom use.

March 2023

Food/Pricing - Taro Tofu Pudding ($8) - Ordered it hot, it was a little warm at best. Expected it to be steaming hot. Tofu could be more silky but it was fine. Overall taste was good. Just wish it were hotter.

Caramel Pudding Milk Tea ($6.25) - Pudding was yum but the milk tea itself tasted watered down.

Service/Ambiance - Service was quick.

I wish the almond drink was available all year round and not just certain months. I absolutely love that item and would come a lot more often if it was available for longer.

Parking - Mall parking.

This is a spinoff of American desserts with a Chinese touch. Red bean desserts is very different. Lot of Shaved ice items with a selection of unique toppings. Pricing is much higher then your normal desserts. Seating inside is a bit cramped.

The QT cup is not good because it made me have diarrhea. As soon as I went home, I had a stomachache and went to the bathroom. This is crazy!

Shaved ice was very disappointing. It was served in a cylindrical takeout box, which is a terrible format for shaved ice. The ice was also sometimes stuck together in chunks. Basically just tasted like sweet milk with ice chunks and some red beans.

Rating is not for the food, but for the lack of any transparency on the prices. Not even the electronic boards posted any prices (so no excuses about not being able to update prices in an inflationary economy). There’s always a line, so there would be a lot of pressure to just order instead of asking about prices on the expansive menu.

The chocolate waffle was not crispy, it was soggy. The shaved ice was okay. This location is not as good as the Temple City location.

Unfortunately went to only find out that they were not doing shaved ice which was disappointing. Otherwise usually love the place