{"id":646304,"date":"2026-08-19T23:39:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T23:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/646304\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T23:39:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T23:39:16","slug":"bay-area-asian-mall-adds-boba-tea-chain-gluten-free-crepes-craft-ramen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/646304\/","title":{"rendered":"Bay Area Asian mall adds boba tea chain, gluten-free crepes, craft ramen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The busy <a href=\"https:\/\/shoppacificpearl.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pacific Pearl Shopping Center<\/a> in Pleasanton has announced four new additions to its popular Asian strip mall.<\/p>\n<p>Well-known Taiwanese boba tea outlet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chichasanchen.com\/en\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chicha San Chen<\/a> and Japanese crepe specialist <a href=\"https:\/\/eightturncrepe.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Eight Turn Crepe<\/a> plan to open this summer or fall in the shopping center on the eastern edge of Pleasanton near the San Francisco Premium Outlets in Livermore. Yogurtland and HiroNori Craft Ramen have also signed leases for storefront locations.<\/p>\n<p>Chicha San Chen, which serves freshly brewed tea, milk tea, and fruit tea, is preparing to open its store in late August. This latest outlet joins a list of locations that includes Berkeley, Cupertino, Daly City, Fremont and San Jose.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"The busy Pacific Pearl Shopping Center in Pleasanton has announced four new additions to its popular Asian strip mall. (Courtesy of Pacific Pearl\/Vestar)\" width=\"1606\" height=\"332\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Evening-hero-shot.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"13028843\" \/>The busy Pacific Pearl Shopping Center in Pleasanton has announced four new additions to its popular Asian strip mall. (Courtesy of Pacific Pearl\/Vestar)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>New York-based Eight Turn Crepe makes crepes with gluten-free rice flour. Customers can choose from sweet or savory ingredients, which are rolled into the crepes and served in a handheld paper cone. Scheduled to open in late September or early October, this will be the chain\u2019s first store in Northern California.<\/p>\n<p>Self-serve frozen yogurt chain <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yogurtland.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Yogurtland<\/a>, which lets customers customize their desserts with assorted toppings, has multiple outlets throughout the Bay Area. The company has not yet announced an official opening date.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hironori.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">HiroNori Craft Ramen,<\/a> which offers bowls made with rich bone broths and house-made noodles, holds a Bib Gourmand designation from the Michelin Guide for offering high-quality multi-course meals at reasonable prices. Its other locations are in Cupertino, Fremont, San Mateo and Santa Clara. The restaurant has also not announced an opening date.<\/p>\n<p>The Pacific Pearl Shopping Center features about two dozen retail and commercial spaces and is anchored by a 99 Ranch Market grocery store.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The busy Pacific Pearl Shopping Center in Pleasanton has announced four new additions to its popular Asian strip&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":646305,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[277],"tags":[65105,42350,79,1374,65106,18,518,35734,135,19,17,42347,2323,5,508,273508,42349,112,3439,9852,131256],"class_list":["post-646304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nutrition","tag-alameda-county","tag-bay-area","tag-business","tag-california","tag-east-bay","tag-eire","tag-food","tag-food-and-drink","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-keywee","tag-latest-headlines","tag-news","tag-nutrition","tag-pleasanton","tag-pm-report","tag-restaurants","tag-retail","tag-things-to-do","tag-tri-valley"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=646304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/646305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}